Sentences with phrase «commercial airspace»

If the region receives $ 500 million over five years under the initiative, $ 250 million, or half the state aid, would be invested to develop, among other things, an air traffic management system for unmanned aerial vehicles so they can be safely integrated into the nation's commercial airspace, members of the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council said.

Further coupled with the investments made by New York state, the region is positioned to be the single best place for the research and development associated with growing the UAS sector «Through this project, the region is advancing detect and avoid technologies critical to integrating UAS into the nation's commercial airspace.

The Syracuse region will host the conference, in part, because New York state is investing $ 250 million to develop an air traffic management system for drones so they can be safely integrated into the nation's commercial airspace.

• A research and development center for unmanned aerial and ground systems, with special emphasis on the development of systems that will allow unmanned aerial vehicles to safely fly in the nation's commercial airspace.

The drone traffic management system would essentially provide the infrastructure to allow drones to safely integrate into the commercial airspace alongside airplanes.

Not exact matches

This summer will mark the first full flying season for commercial UAS in the Arctic and the first time commercial UAS will take to the skies for any length of time in U.S. airspace.

It may sound a little like something out of an episode of the «The Jetsons,» but the reality is the Federal Aviation Administration is required to implement regulations to integrate commercial drones into the national airspace by 2015, meaning flying robots are going to become a lot more common in the U.S.

Broad regulations governing the commercial use of drones in U.S. airspace are expected sometime in the first half of next year.

At these altitudes, the aircraft will be far above the airspace where commercial airliners fly and free from storms or other weather disturbances, Parikh explained.

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From the Valley to DC, everyone will be talking in 2016 about whether or not the airspace should be regulated for hobbyists and commercial drone pilots, which will prompt difficult conversations between technologists, researchers, drone manufacturers, businesses and the aviation industry, since each has an economic stake in the future of unmanned vehicles.

The system is part of the agency's UAS Data Exchange umbrella, which aims to facilitate drone registration and help speed integration of the unmanned aircraft into the airspace used by traditional commercial and private manned aircraft.Last November, the FAA began testing the system at eight air route control centers, with the goal of ultimately covering 300 air traffic control facilities nationwide that monitor approximately 500 airports.

Most of the name - calling on the subject embroils the major airlines and general aviation's commercial segment: the corporate aircraft, air - taxi services and commuter carriers which claim their right to use the same crowded airspace as the airliners.

Beyond this, hundreds if not thousands of commercial drone users are waiting in the wings for a few last technical details to be figured out (especially sense - and - avoid technology) and for the implementation of legal regulations allowing drones to share airspace with manned aircraft.

It's expected the program will provide «immediate opportunities» for new and expanded commercial UAS operations; foster a «meaningful» dialogue on the balance between local and national interests related to UAS integration; and provide «actionable» information to the DOT on «expanded and universal» integration of UAS into the national airspace system (NAS).

Consumer drones pose far less of a threat to high - flying commercial aircraft; a jet airliner is in drone airspace only during takeoff and landing, and is very fast - moving target for a quadcopter.

But the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) predicts 10,000 commercial drones will ply domestic airspace by 2017 — almost twice the that of the U.S. Air Force's current fleet of unmanned aircraft.

And on 9 February, the European Commission's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Panel will meet in Brussels, Belgium, to agree on the key flight rules and technologies essential for commercial UAVs to operate safely in civilian airspace.

Commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles in U.S. airspace was banned by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2007, although growing numbers of hobbyists have been toying with the use of drones, particularly for aerial photography.

Whether it be commercial package delivery, disaster relief management, agricultural surveying, or runway and aircraft inspection, the need to safely and efficiently integrate drones into the national airspace is not only a matter of public safety, but a matter of economic development, innovation, and jobs.

Drone technology is relatively new, especially to the commercial and private citizen sectors, and the FAA can not envision a free - for - all in the skies where drones clog US airspace.

drones, these «aircraft» remain isolated from the airspace where commercial airliners and other aircraft operate — confined to low - altitudes away from airports, required to remain within visual line of sight of the remote pilot, and otherwise relegated to a subordinate status in the NAS.

The overwhelming majority of the current rules which govern airspace, property rights and privacy rights are the product of eras when the widespread commercial use of drones was barely conceivable.

Airspace in North America and Europe is tightly regulated, making it extremely difficult for any company to gain permission for commercial flight, especially in dense urban environments.

«The FAA wants to regulate commercial drones as they have the ability to infringe in airspace that may already be occupied or in use,» Steve Abdu, executive vice president of technology and training at Expert Aviation Consulting, told the E-Commerce...

Pursuant to a set of operational and safety requirements, as well as a remote pilot certificate requirement (see question 7), the sUAS Rule integrates sUAS into the national airspace, and permits the operation of sUAS for commercial purposes.

According to Jim Williams, manager of FAA's UAS Integration Office, the agency's administrator Michael Huerta is committed to quickly finalizing the federal rules for the commercial use of UAS in national airspace, which is currently prohibited.

An administrative law judge has considered whether the Federal Aviation Administration («FAA») had the power to fine an individual for operating an unmanned commercial aircraft, or drone, in U.S. airspace without authorization.