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Drone registration and pilot testing will be mandatory in the UK

07 Nov

Even though no solid evidence has been presented in regards to drones being involved, incidents at both Gatwick and Heathrow airports, which saw thousands of flights grounded and delayed for days, have inspired the United Kingdom’s Civil Aviation Authority to enforce more regulations. The government agency is requiring all operators over the age of 18 to pass an online pilot’s test and register their unmanned aerial vehicle by November 30th.

This deadline applies to remote pilots flying model aircraft weighing between 250 grams (.55 pounds) and 20 kilograms (about 44 pounds). Exemptions to these mandatory rules have been granted to the following organizations:

  • The UK Drone Association (Arpas UK)
  • British Model Flying Association
  • Scottish Aeromodellers’ Association
  • Large Model Association
  • FPV UK

Besides registering the drone, owners must obtain their flyer ID which requires taking and passing a theory (pilot) test. Adults and children under 13 can still fly but they must pass the test, and kids must be registered to fly by a parent or guardian. The drone’s main operator must be 18 or older and is responsible for ensuring every person flying their aircraft is both registered and has passed their theory test.

Registration is relatively inexpensive at £9 ($ 12). Similar to U.S. rules, drone owners will be given a unique ID that must be affixed to their drone in a way that’s easily identifiable. Anyone caught flying a drone that is not registered could incur a fine of up to £1000 ($ 1290).

DJI has recently created the Mavic Mini, which weights under 250 grams, to circumvent registration requirements. While operators of these lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles many not need to register with the Federal Aviation Administration, Civil Aviation Authority, or other similar agencies (always check your local laws), remote pilots still need to abide by standard aviation rules or face the consequences if caught.

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Report: FAA to test new pilot programs to speed up remote drone identification tech

08 Jan

In 2017, news surfaced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had taken the first steps toward establishing drone identification rules, which would require a drone to remotely identify itself to law enforcement. The remote ID system could help identify drones operated in restricted airspace, such as drones over airports, but multiple reports have indicated there could be a significant delay.

In November, the Wall Street Journal reported the FAA was ‘significantly behind’ schedule on establishing drone identification rules, something necessary for the large scale commercial use of drones. As well, law enforcement and government officials have increasingly expressed concerns over illegal drone operation and their inability to rapidly identify these UAVs.

In its most recent update, the WSJ has revealed a Federal Register notice from December that details pilot projects aimed at speeding up remote ID system testing. According to the report, the FAA wants to create up to eight prototype projects financed by private companies in order to test different identification options.

These prototype projects would be used both to gather real-world data and verify that the remote identification technologies work while speeding up the overall time it will take the FAA to establish the new rules. Neither timelines nor project costs have been revealed at this time, but assuming that a rule proposal in made in the next few months, final regulations may be established in the next year or two.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Russian drone pilot pushes his tiny drone to 33,000ft

24 Mar

YouTube user and drone pilot Denis Koryakin (“????? ???????”) recently published a video showing a small drone’s trip to an altitude of around 33,000ft.

Operating a drone at that altitude would be against regulations in many places, not to mention risky to commercial aircraft. That said, this particular ascent appears to have taken place in a remote region of Russia near the Siberian city of Strejevoï, and there don’t seem to be any altitude restrictions on small drone flights in Russia, so he didn’t technically break any laws.

According to Koryakin’s video description, this “drone experiment” intended to get the drone to an altitude of 10 kilometers, which is just under 33,000ft and about the cruising altitude of passenger jets. The on-screen display shows the drone’s speed hitting 13 meters per second at one point, and Koryakin explained that temps went down to -50°C (-58°F) when the drone reached an altitude of around 8,000 meters (~26,000ft).

The video translation reads (H/T DPReview user ShaiKhulud):

March 9, 2018. Experiments with drone are still in progress. Goals for this flight are: reach a height of 10km and return to the launch site without accidents.

By popular demands, by my own desire and with a help of my friends we’ve added an air temperature gauge.

Because of the thermometer inertia, temperature is displayed with a slight delay.

The outside ground level temperature was around -10 C.

Max temperature during flight was around -50 C at 8000 m. altitude.

DVR footage and HD footage is slightly out of sync (by a few seconds) because of the frame skipping.

In the video description, Koryakin also lists the parts used to construct and control the drone, all of them readily accessible to anyone who wants to replicate it. Components include Cobra brushless motors, Gemfan carbon nylon propellers, and Sony li-ion batteries. The drone weighed around 1kg / 2.3lbs.


Disclaimer: Always check applicable local laws before trying something that might be dangerous or potentially illegal. DPReview does not condone or encourage illegal activity.

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Master drone pilot captures video while flying around, inside, and under a moving train

25 Sep

Absolutely, positively never try this yourself. By all accounts, this flight was highly illegal and DPReview in no way condones this activity.


If you’re at all plugged into the world of drone news, you’ve probably seen this video floating around the past week. Captured by master First Person View (FPV) drone pilot Paul Nurkkala, it shows his “flight of the year” in which he flies around, inside, onto, and under a moving train… barrel rolls included.

Nurkkala captured the video using his custom built drone, which is equipped with a GoPro Hero5 Session and piloted from afar using special FPV goggles.

The video has split the internet into two predictably conflicted camps. The first thinks it’s just the coolest footage to ever come out of a drone, because Nurkkala is clearly such a talented pilot. The second is infuriated that he would do something so obviously illegal, post the results online, and receive so much praise and adulation (and so many views… at last count his 5-day old YouTube video had accrued nearly 850,000 views).

No judgement if you find yourself both entertained and a little bit annoyed/angry while watching the video.

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Pilot Projects: 8 Artistically Painted Airplanes & Jets

07 Apr

[ By Steve in Design & Graphics & Branding. ]

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Airlines large and small are artistically painting their aircraft in flying colors to ensure the view from outside is as nice as the one from your window seat.

Shakes On A Plane

easyJet Shakespeare airplane (image via: Joshua_Risker)

It’s a bard, it’s a plane! To help celebrate the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth, British budget airline easyJet has rolled out a distinctly decorated Airbus A319-111 emblazoned with the legendary English playwright’s visage. The brilliant orange and white jet is the centerpiece of easyJet’s promotional campaign supporting the establishment of an annual national William Shakespeare Day on the literary icon’s birthday, April 23rd. A curtain call for Flickr user Joshua_Risker for the eloquently Elizabethan image of Sir Will above.

easyJet Shakespeare airplane (images via: Veooz.com, EAPForum and Canoe.ca)

One curious feature of the promotion was the enlisting of the UK’s oldest living “William Shakespeare”, aged 91. Those interested in riding the Shakespeare plane will be pleased to note easyJet will be running special “on-bard entertainment” (their pun, not mine) flights from Gatwick Airport across the carrier’s network in the UK and Europe this summer. We’re guessing the Twelfth Night is fully booked.

Raising The Bar

Southwest Airlines Bar Refaeli Sports Illustrated 2009 airplane (images via: Brisbane Times, Flightgear/N-Scot and Airliners.net/Michael Carter)

In 2009 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model Bar Refaeli practiced a little double coverage when her bikini-clad likeness was plastered across both sides of a Southwest Airlines 737. While the Israeli beauty herself approved of the SIxSW promotional gimmick, the airline reaped a whirlwind of controversy when some passengers felt the imagery was, shall we say, less than family-friendly.

Painted On Porpoise

Amakusa Airlines dolphin airplane (image via: Rocketnews24)

When Japan’s Amakusa Airlines decided to paint their entire fleet to resemble the company’s dolphin mascot, the firm’s accountants kept their composure… the “airline” only has one plane! Amakusa managed to make the most of their resources, however, as their workhorse twin-engine Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop was arted up to resemble a mother dolphin and her two babies – one on each side. Everybody now: “Awww!”

Amakusa Airlines dolphin airplane (images via: Rocketnews24, Naver Matome and 1TOPI)

Amakusa Airlines may be small but when it comes to social media they punch far above their weight. The company’s Facebook page gleefully promotes the plane’s extreme makeover with a marketing focus on Japan’s so-called airplane geeks. Riding the dolphin was never more fun… well, almost never.

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3D Animation. Sci Fi Funk. Pilot Episode.

28 May

3D Animation set in 2064 AD. Adventures in futuristic urban life. Sci Fi Funk – 3D Animated Music Video. Get the music: apps.facebook.com Get the sounds: www.audiomicro.com This series features Electronic Funk Music set to futuristic 3D Animation. It showcases my own ideas which come from the kind of Blade Runner/ Dystopia / CyberPunk worlds that we seem to be heading towards. In 2064 Ad the World’s major cities will be over crowded and highly cosmopolitan, to the extent that a kind of world English will emerge, which borrows words from many languages, this is starting to happen now. It is possible that the earth’s atmosphere may have deteriorated to such an extent that many people seek the shelter of the big City domes with their controlled weather environments. Of course some people go it alone in the country risking skin cancer, but many flock to the Domes, where there is relative safety and where the work is. The big cities house the average person in huge skyscrapers, the tallest of which is 270 floors built in Peking. The average height is 190 floors. The rich / poor divide is very evident and with living space at a premium only the very rich own houses and land, or live at the top of the skyscrapers. The rest of the population fight over the size of apartment they can afford, the higher you go the better the “class” of apartment. “violence is prohibited”. This is a global law, passed just a year ago. The nanny state has gone mad and to “protect” its citizens

We recently scanned the whole of the Museum’s Great Hall and its objects with a 3D laser scanner. As the resulting animation was so startling (& slightly unnerving) we thought you’d like to see it. It’s not of broadcast quality (no sound in the clip for example), however it’s well worth watching just to see how close to the actual, physical Great Hall this animation looks. None of this is actual film footage, it’s simply points of data built up by firing beams of lasers at the objects (and the visitors, who you might spot as ‘spindles’ walking around the exhibits) in the Museum, and then transferred to a computer to build 3D models.

 

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