Sentences with phrase «drone aircraft piloting»

Among its current operations are remote drone aircraft piloting.

Not exact matches

But while manned aircraft can usually fight back against signal jamming, and pilots in a cockpit can always use their own judgment if communications or navigation is lost, jamming could pose a serious threat to the US Navy's drones, as there's no one in the cockpit, according to Lamrani.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced on Monday a new drone registration process requiring owners of remotely piloted aircraft to register online with the government by early next year.

Another incident described in the FAA's accounts involved an airplane pilot in North Carolina who noticed a drone was flying roughly 1,000 feet below his aircraft, which was 7,000 feet in the air.

An amateur drone pilot landed on Britain's new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier without anybody noticing.

In February 2016, the FAA said that over 325,000 people had registered drones, exceeding the 320,000 piloted aircraft registrations in the FAA's database.

Since drones don't take off and land from designated locations, the way airplanes do, drone pilots need to be able to track aircraft to avoid collisions and flying over restricted airspace.

Despite playing such a pivotal role in the counterterrorism strategy of the U.S., there's a surprising lack of public information about drones — pilotless military aircrafts that are controlled autonomously by computers or remote pilots.

For instance, the British MoD recommends that when «working with an uninformed audience» or «when talking to the media» not to use the term «unmanned» but, instead, «remotely piloted aircraft» — which emphasises that drones are still controlled by soldiers.

But the agency plans to allow drones, civilian or otherwise, to share airspace with old - fashioned piloted aircraft by 2015 — provided the drones incorporate collision - avoidance technology.

As a sensor operator for these remotely piloted aircraft, or RPAs, it was his job to coordinate the drones» onboard cameras, and, if a missile was released, to laser - guide the weapon to its destination.

But so far all these drones have had human pilots; the difference is that their pilots are on the ground and fly the aircraft remotely.

Floreano believes that the jacket gives drone pilots a more intuitive way to control their aircraft, letting them focus on other tasks at the same time.

Over the next two and a half years, the selectees will collect drone data involving night operations, flights over people and beyond the pilot's line of sight, package delivery, detect - and - avoid technologies and the reliability and security of data links between pilot and aircraft.

There are guidelines for those who flew model aircraft before drones came along; they are explicit and according to drone site Know before you fly, drone pilots are supposed to follow them.

In its infancy, drone law was largely the domain of sole practitioners, many of them licensed aircraft pilots or drone hobbyists.

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.