Civil Aviation Technologies To Watch In 2016
Dec 25, 2015
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Unmanned Extended
If the FAA releases its long-delayed final Small UAS rule as promised by June 2016, it will only come under intensifying market pressure to expand the rule’s constraints and allow flights at night and beyond the operator’s visual line of sight, aided by technologies including cellular connectivity and low-power automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B). The FAA’s Pathfinder program is already testing urban and beyond-line-of-sight operations. The agency, meanwhile, will task standards developer RTCA to bring together stakeholders and recommend how airspace below 400 ft., including over cities, should be managed and shared by unmanned and manned aircraft.Click on the first miniture Picture to view slideshowPhoto:Amazon
From unmanned aircraft to electric propulsion, civil aviation is feeling the effects of disruptive changes.