The Office of the Inspector General of the US Department of Transportation will audit the FAA’s drone integration efforts once more.  This time the waiver course of comes beneath scrutiny. In a memorandum despatched to the Director of Audit and Evaluation, the audit was introduced: “Given the significant safety implications …

DroneDeploy FieldScanner DroneDeploy, the main cloud software program platform for business drones, introduced the beta launch of Fieldscanner in the present day: actual-time drone mapping for farmers. Fieldscanner permits farmers to get maps because the drone flies – “enabling real-time, offline mapping for immediate in-field analysis.” “Growers have been asking for real-time, …

An Oregon-based agency helps the U.S. Army battle ISIS drones. Portland firm Radio Hill Technologies inked a deal final week with the military’s Rapid Equipping Force to instantly ship an unnamed amount of its Block three Dronebuster hand-held counter-drone detection and jamming methods. The settlement will permit the military to …

We’ve been interviewing winners from this 12 months’s New York City Drone Film Festival during the last a number of weeks, and it’s been a pleasure to get so many various views on aerial cinematography, and to get such an array of insights into how these administrators work. This week’s interview is with Giles …

photograph courtesy MMC Do you’re employed for a corporation that’s presently utilizing drones to your work?   A farm or development enterprise, inspections, transportation, or different enterprise firm that’s presently utilizing drones to perform work that must be performed? We wish to speak to you.  We are doing a little …

Drone operators questioning learn how to flip their love of flying right into a enterprise take notice.  Canada-based Recon Aerial broadcasts that their drone enterprise “startup solution” has landed in the US. The firm will formally launch their US-based merchandise on the finish of this week. Recon Aerial was really the primary drone firm to …

DroneLife will probably be at AUVSI XPONENTIAL in Dallas on May eighth – 11th. Come by our sales space (955) and inform us about your services or products! Are you saying one thing at the present? If so, please tell us as quickly as you possibly can and we will …

By Nicholas A. Tonelli (Flickr: Nittany Valley Farms) [CC BY 2.0 ] When you wish to know what’s actually occurring on America’s farms, the Farm Journal is the place to go.  The Farm Journal Pulse polls farmers and ranchers through textual content twice a month with easy questions.  The nameless solutions present …

The Roswell Flight Test Crew flies the Rise Vusion House Racer from Hobbico. In preserve with the plane’s design, the flight testing is performed solely indoors, throughout the confines of the workplace lunch room. Developed particularly for brand spanking new pilots to study First-Person View (FPV) racing, the House Racer …

The FAA is taking steps to enhance the processing of airspace authorization requests, by releasing the primary set of UAS facility maps on the finish of the month.  “The maps will depict areas and altitudes near airports where UAS may operate safely,” says the company. “They will help drone operators improve …