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Happening now: UAS: An Examination of the Use of Drones in Emergency Response

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🔍 High-altitude inspections exposes drones to heavy winds and gusts 💨, while nearby structures can create even more turbulences 🌪️. This heavily affects NDT inspection results performed by drones. The Voliro T drone’s advanced technology, with rotors that move independently of the drone body, ensures it maintains stable positions and orientations during inspections under all conditions. 🛠 Key Stability Features: 📍 Independent rotor movement for steady positioning 📍 Excellent performance in heavy winds and turbulences 📍 Consistent reliability for precise NDT inspections Keep your inspections steady and accurate with the Voliro T, no matter the weather.: https://buff.ly/3xRtvho #NDT #UT #drone #inspection #aerial #robotics

🚀 Exciting News in the Drone Industry! 🚀 First Amazon, now Zipline and Wing have received FAA approval for BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) operations. This marks a significant milestone for the drone industry and opens up new possibilities for drone delivery. Imagine the possibilities! 🛫📦 With BVLOS, drones can operate over greater distances without requiring a visual observer, making delivery services faster and more efficient. Did someone say hot food? 🍔🍟 No more missing fries from the bag like all those videos we see on social media! While it might not be as hot as straight from the restaurant, your food arrives untouched and just as ordered. What could this mean for the future? Will customers receiving deliveries need Ground Control Points (GCPs) or designated landing pads? How will logistics and infrastructure adapt to support these advancements? What will the obstacle avoidance look like for these drones? Just on the drone, or added OA for the payload and cargo on board? This is an exciting development, and it will be interesting to see how it all plays out. The drone industry continues to innovate and evolve, bringing new opportunities and challenges. What are your thoughts on this development? How do you think BVLOS approval will impact the drone industry? #Drones #DroneTechnology #BVLOS #Innovation #Delivery #Zipline #Wing #FAAApproval #FutureOfDrones #HotFoodDelivery #NoMoreMissingFries

As much as the prospect of drone delivery excites me, I'm left with a few questions about the system. 1) Is there communication between drone operators and ATC to avoid incursion with other aircraft? With whom specifically would they communicate? (Approach, Tower, Departure etc.) 2) Given that Dallas has a large number of uncontrolled General Aviation (GA) airports, how will pilots adapt to the presence of unmanned drones in said uncontrolled airspace? Will operators avoid that airspace? 3) What are the extant regulations surrounding these drones? I'll be watching these developments intently; as you know, innovation either has to work within a system or revolutionise it.

This will be the foundation that unlocks the true potential of this technology. To remove human error from the safety equation, I believe all aerial platforms need to share a low latency V2V (Vehicle To Vehicle) network and CAS (Collision Avoidance System) that is V2V based. Then, drones will be able to safely occupy the sky without risking crewed aircraft and with no risk of midair collision above busy roads.

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It would be great if the EU members finally started to move forward more quickly in the domain of drone adoption. The new regulatory package 2021/664, regulating airspace management for drones (UTM, Unmanned Traffic Management, or U-Space), was adopted by the European Commission in April 2021. The regulation entered into force in January 2023. EU member states must provide the services of the UTM system listed in Regulation (EC) 2021/664: flight authorization, remote identification of UAVs, restriction of flight zones, provision of information about traffic, weather, and control of compliance with applications. Currently, only Switzerland (a non-EU member) comes closest to the implementation of U-Space. Others, according to official messages, are "actively working on U-Space implementation"  We do not know about the progress of many others in this area. And you?

Well the FAA has effectively given a greenlight to a third party to manage UAV and drone flights and interactions, provided certain technology requirements are met. Will this expand and legitimize UAV & Drone deliveries currently being tested and carefully controlled, managed and piloted in several states? What impact will this have on growth of the UAV/drone industry? “For the first time the FAA has recognized a third-party to safely manage drone-to-drone interactions,” said Praveen Raju, a program manager in the FAA’s NextGen Office. “As always, safety comes first, and we required exhaustive research and testing before giving the green light.” “Using UTM services, companies can share data and planned flight routes with other authorized airspace users. This allows the operators to safely organize and manage drone flights around each other in shared airspace. The industry developed consensus standards, which the FAA accepted, for how to accommodate multiple layers of low-altitude drone operations through UTM services. This kind of system provides high levels of safety without the need for overly burdensome regulations.” “The FAA expects initial flights using UTM services will begin in August and issuing more authorizations in the Dallas area in the near future.” #uavdronedeliveries #uavdronetechnology #uavdroneregulations #bvlos #faa

It’s been about a week since significant news broke regarding UAS Traffic Management (UTM) and turning the concept into reality. I’ve taken a few days after the FAA’s UAS and AAM Symposium to reflect on the UTM achievements. This announcement that was made on initial acceptance of a UTM Service (Strategic Conflict Detection) has been nearly a decade in the making. This is a personally significant milestone to see a program since its initiation within FAA through various phases from: budget formulation, concept development, testing & evaluation,  and now to see near-term implementation. I want to highlight some of the folks that have enabled the work, myself, and have been critical reasons for the success of UTM within the Public Sector: Jarrett Larrow for teaching me about how to be a regulator (or at least pretend to be one) Biruk Abraham being and continuing to be a mentor and the epitome of leader Brandon Lint for continuing to balance the regulator and ANSP perspectives  Joseph Rios for always being a willing teacher, educating others, and striving for better Peter Sachs for helping Sheppard a novel idea and being a believer Steve Bradford for supporting innovation and providing us space to problem solve some of the most complex topics and enabling new perspectives parimal kopardekar for being a visionary, a valuable partner, and continuing to push us all to new frontiers There are many others that have made important contributions to develop this new paradigm and enabling UTM in both supporting and in the public sector. You all know who you are and I am personally grateful to continue to learn from everyone. What we can all be proud of is maintaining the core mission of the FAA and enabling a new technology. TLDR: I’m lucky to have worked on such a novel idea and proud of all the hard work that went into making UTM a reality. Read More at: FAA: https://lnkd.in/g3M7cDrr Bloomberg: https://lnkd.in/gNSgAwCm US UTM Implementation: https://lnkd.in/g7TwcFfA #drones #UTM #Innovation