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The FASVIG Implementation Programme contains a number of airspace efficiency enablers. Package ATA.7 entitled “UAS Policy Compatible with VFR Operations” was enabled during FASVIG year 1 work and sought to initiate dialogue with the UAS community to seek to improve mutual understanding. This successful engagement led to further funding being agreed in year 2 work, […]
The growth in the use of drones has a number of potential implications for VFR flight. Drones are also know by their more official name of Unmanned Aircraft Systems or UAS. The Package of Change in the FAS VFR Implementation Programme (FASVIP) related to UAS is ATA.7 UAS Policy Compatible with VFR Operations Therein it […]
Published by EAA (EAA website article: DOT to Require Registration of Drones) DOT to Require Registration of Drones October 22, 2015 – This week, Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced a plan to expand registration requirements to all drones, including those used for recreation or hobby. The plan comes as […]
Reported by the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34351841) A request by Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli to close the air space over her wedding venue has sparked a row between the country’s transport minister and the civil aviation authority (CAA). The CAA had agreed to close the skies over the hotel in northern Israel. But Transport Minister Yisrael Katz then […]
The July 2015 meeting of the UK Airprox Board assessed an airprox reported by a Royal Navy Lynx helicopter pilot flying at 2500ft just west of Bristol earlier this year which came within 30-50ft of a drone. THE LYNX PILOT reports transiting to RNAS Yeovilton. The aircraft was descending from 2500ft to 1500ft when a small […]
Amazon proposes airspace from 200ft-400ft exclusively for autonomous drones, with a further 100ft above it declared a no-fly zone. See Amazon’s document “Revising the Airspace Model for the Safe Integration of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems “