Percepto, the leading autonomous inspection and monitoring solution provider, on January 6th announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has allowed operators to use Percepto’s drone-in-a-box solution to perform highly automated Beyond Visual Line of Sight (HA BVLOS) inspection and monitoring operations at a large Texas solar power plant. The …
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Leveraging Vantis, the state’s first-of-its-kind UAS network, uAvionix, an avionics company specializing in drones, received approval by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) small unmanned aircraft flights in North Dakota. uAvionix, with support from the Northern Plains UAS Test Site, demonstrated to the FAA that …
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Iris Automation has been granted its third waiver for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) autonomous operations on behalf of the City of Reno Fire Department, a participant in the FAA’s BEYOND program. In conjunction with previous waivers issued to Iris Automation, this offers a wider range of options for future …
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Using the FlightOps Ltd. multi-drone operating system, the Israel Police for the first time deployed autonomous drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) for command, surveillance and intelligence missions. During a first-ever operational experiment carried out by the Israeli police in October, a drone was placed at the Modi’in-Maccabim-Reut station …
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Governor Kathy Hochul announced on October 19th that the New York Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Site has secured approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly uncrewed aircraft systems – commonly referred to as drones – beyond visual line of sight across the entire 50 miles of airspace within New York’s Drone …
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(Aug. 25, 2022) HERZLIYA, Isr. — Using the FlightOps Ltd. multi-drone operating system (OS), Volatus Aerospace is the first company in Canada to receive a Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC), which allows drone operations without a visual observer. This certification, awarded by Transport Canada, …
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Phoenix Air Unmanned, LLC (PAU) crossed the 13,000-mile mark of utility transmission line inspection flights for Xcel Energy last week. The mileage total is another milestone for a program designed to build upon traditional inspection methods in the utility industry and advance beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) Uncrewed Aircraft …
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PENDLETON, Ore. & DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – May 23, 2022 – PRLog — Volatus Group’s UAS training center request to conduct Beyond Visual Line of Site (BVLOS) operations and training at the Pendleton UAS range was approved via a waiver granted by the FAA. As one of Censys’s …
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Reno, NV (April 6, 2022) — Iris Automation has been granted a second waiver for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) autonomous operations on behalf of the City of Reno, this time utilizing its Casia G ground-based solution. The approval follows the recent award of a waiver for …
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Chandler, AZ (February 11, 2022) – Censys Technologies and Soaring Eagle Technologies, a nationwide UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) service provider, have secured their third BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) waiver. The waiver covers a 12-mile distance in Arizona a few hours north of Phoenix – the longest …
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