FAA Begins New Phase of Testing to Safely
Integrate Drones into the National Airspace
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will begin field-testing
new drone-traffic-management capabilities to further integrate these aircraft
into the National Airspace System.
The Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) Field
Test, which will start in the spring of 2022, will allow the government and the
drone community to continue improving standards, data-exchange methods and
cybersecurity capabilities.
UTM includes a set of services that are complementary to, but separate
from, Air Traffic Management services for manned aircraft. It is targeted
toward small unmanned aircraft operations in airspace, generally flying below
400 feet, and builds on current rules and capabilities that enable airspace access
and authorization.
The test outcomes will provide the FAA with critical information to
support the development of new policies and for industry development of updated
standards to allow drones to routinely fly beyond visual line of sight of the
operators.
The FAA and its industry partners will conduct multiple drone flights
in realistic test scenarios to learn more about how to manage drone traffic in
varying environments. The flight tests will examine how the latest capabilities
and standards will work to support the operations in the real world.
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