LAANC

Matthew G. Bisanz [CC BY-SA 3.0] After the recent government shutdown, the FAA seems to be making up for lost time.  In the past 3 days, the agency has made 3 announcements concerning drone regulations. On February 13, the FAA announced a major change to the registration marking rule.  At …

Flying a drone is very different from flying a plane or driving a car. For starters, it’s remote. The separation between pilot and vehicle means there’s limited accountability built into the situation. And that’s an issue. If you want to reassure members of the public and law enforcement that what you’re doing …

Energy provider Southern Company has announced plans to expand its existing drone program with assistance from Verizon-owned Skyward. The move follows Southern Company and its affiliates’ established use of drone technology for remote inspections, wire transport and damage recovery assessments. In fact, the company claims to be the first utility to …

The following is a guest post by Dan Burton, CEO and Founder of DroneBase.  Today is a momentous day for the drone industry. Since its official implementation in April 2018, the Federal Aviation Administration’s LAANC (Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability), has been slowly rolling out to six regions across …

The rollout of the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) beta take a look at is constant, with the Western South Region – together with airports in California and Hawaii – on June 21. The LAANC program fixes a significant downside for drone operators, who’ve struggled with lengthy delays …

The FAA is making massive efforts to speak with and educate industrial operators.  Part of the program, they kicked off a dwell summer season Webinar collection on Tuesday providing perception into FAA waiver and authorization processes, beginning with “Where’s My Waiver?” FAA put collectively a workforce of staffers to current …

Enterprise drone operations software program specialist Kittyhawk has introduced a collaboration with Jeppesen, a Boeing subsidiary. The pair will start working in the direction of providing digital airspace authorization immediately from the FAA by way of the Kittyhawk platform. Kittyhawk and Jeppesen are aiming for approval from the FAA to …

By Cargyrak (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0] Commercial drone legal guidelines are in the early levels of improvement – and which means they’re consistently evolving.  It will be tough for business operators to maintain up with modifications.  Here, a number one professional from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University feedback on three of …

Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM), a complete system for managing and monitoring drone flights past visible line of sight (BVLS), is one thing of a regulatory Wild West present right here in the states with a variety of applied sciences and gamers vying to be a part of the eventual resolution. …

Another identify has quietly proven up on the checklist of suppliers testing the prototype of the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC): Project Wing. Project Wing is often referred to as Google’s drone venture, though formally the program is a division of X Development LLC, mum or dad firm …