Emerging regulations

by Michael Willoughby NASA has announced a competition for UAV developers with entry between September 1 and November 1. During the SAND Challenge, contestants will compete with autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles. The proposed challenge is […]

A group of 19 companies has met to define areas for industry standardisation in the area of electrified propulsion. Businesses, including airframers, engine manufacturers and system suppliers are set to work towards creating so-called WG-113  […]

The first mayor in America to oversee the unmanned and autonomous deployment of aerial commercial drones over an urban area steered a resolution calling for sweeping improvements to data security and infrastructure through the  U.S. […]

On 2 July 2019, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) released its final Special Condition rule, the foundation stone to enabling the safe operation of hybrid and electrical vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. […]

The US National Air Transportation Association (NATA) released a whitepaper titled “Urban Air Mobility: Considerations for Vertiport Operation.” According to NATA: “The whitepaper reviews the applicability of existing federal regulations and industry standards to specific […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that it issued Hensel Phelps Construction Company of Washington, D.C., a Part 107 waiver on June 1 to operate a DJI Phantom 4 drone, equipped with a parachute, […]

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has set up an Unmanned Aircraft Systems Advisory Panel (UASAP). The Panel will help CAAS review Singapore’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) regulatory framework and recommend enhancements to the […]

The UK Civil Aviation Authority has launched a new research initiative to bring together urban air mobility, UTM and ATM companies to work together to explore, emerging concepts in an ‘Innovation Sandbox’ which will allow […]

India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has invited Express of Interest (EOI) from consortia of experts for conducting experimental beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) in India, leading […]

The US Commercial Drone Alliance (“CDA”) has serious reservations about the Federal Aviation Administration’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the operation of small unmanned aircraft systems (“UAS”) over people (“the NPRM”). 2 In an April […]