Emerging regulations

The report by the UK’s Accident and Investigation Branch (AAIB) into the crash of the 95kg Alauda Airspeeder Mk II scale demonstrator drone will have major implications for the way the UK’s aviation safety regulator, […]

According to air taxi manufacturer EHang: “The Specification for Express Delivery Service by Unmanned Aircraft (the “Standard”) issued by the State Post Bureau of the People’s Republic of China will be effective from January 1st, […]

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has today announced final rules for drones covering Remote Identification (Remote ID) and flights over people and at night under certain conditions. “These final rules carefully address safety, security […]

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published the full regulatory framework setting the parameters for drone services such as parcel delivery in urban areas, railway and power lines inspection, or delivery of essential […]

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) invites comments on the overall concept presented at the webinar hosted by the agency on 1 October on beyond line of visual sight (BVLOS) operations in an urban environment. […]

The European Defence Agency (EDA) has completed its work on the ‘Enhanced RPAS Automation’ (ERA) project launched in 2016 by EDA on behalf of Germany, France, Italy, Poland and Sweden. The project aimed at standardising […]

The EU-China Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement (BASA), which went into force in the first week of September will bring European and Chinese safety regulators closer together in areas such as UAS traffic management (UTM) and […]

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released an initial Concept of Operations (ConOps) for Urban Air Mobility. The 30-page document describes how urban air taxi operations will operate safely in the US National Airspace […]

ICAO’s Air Navigation Commission (ANC) hosted a discussion with the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and standards agency Eurocae on Urban Air Mobility (UAM) on 20 May 2020. The regulatory bodies were looking at how […]