FAA and NASA lay groundwork for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
September 6, 2019
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), NASA, and their partners in a pilot program that is laying the groundwork for an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) traffic management system, successfully demonstrated how such a system can work in the future.
The demonstrations, conducted at 3 separate test sites selected by the FAA for the UAS Traffic Management Pilot Program (UPP), showed that multiple, Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations can be safely conducted at low altitudes (below 400 feet) in airspace where FAA air traffic services are not provided.
As demand for low altitude drone use increases, the FAA, NASA and the UPP partners are working together to accommodate these operations safely and efficiently.
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Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP), a federally-designated drone test site, and Lee Vinsel, an assistant professor of science, technology, and society in Virginia Tech’s College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, released a new report this week about what the public really thinks about drone delivery. Notably, Vinsel focuses much of his work on the community of Christianburg, Virginia, which is the first community in the United States to implement residential drone delivery services. Christianburg’s residents were asked about drone delivery, and they actually had pretty positive things to say. Of the more than 800 respondents:
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Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) jointly released a progress report on Phase 2 of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) Pilot Program (UPP). Initial results proved successful in demonstrating a number of additional UTM capabilities and allowed the agencies and partners to gain valuable information. The data, lessons learned, surveys and other artifacts will be used to generate a final report, to be published later in 2021.
The primary goal of the UPP is to enable the development, testing and demonstration of a set of UTM capabilities to support the sharing of information that promotes situational awareness and deconfliction of drones. During the first phase of the UPP, the following capabilities were successfully demonstrated: (1) sharing of operational intent between operators; (2) generating a UAS Volume Reservation
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP), a federally-designated drone test site, and Lee Vinsel, an assistant professor of science, technology, and society in Virginia Tech’s College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, released a new report this week about what the public really thinks about drone delivery. Notably, Vinsel focuses much of his work on the community of Christianburg, Virginia, which is the first community in the United States to implement residential drone delivery services. Christianburg’s residents were asked about drone delivery, and they actually had pretty positive things to say. Of the more than 800 respondents:
Wing seeks exemption for remote drone operation
Company wants to operate delivery drones from regional pilot in command stations
0 37 3 minutes read Wing, which has been testing drone delivery in Virginia, has requested an exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration guidelines that would allow it to operate drones remotely rather than from a central command station. (Photo: Wing/Virginia Tech)
Following the release of positive public feedback for drone delivery in Christiansburg, Virginia, Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) drone division, Wing Aviation, is requesting federal approval to operate drone flights from a remote location.
According to a petition published in the Federal Register on Monday, Wing is seeking an amendment to its exemption for unmanned aircraft system (UAS) delivery services to allow for the control of drone aircraft from a central hub as part of “regional pilot in commands” (PIC) operations. The company also wants to stage unmanned aircraft