A three-year-long initiative spearheaded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in collaboration with industry has yielded a blueprint that establishes best operational and safety practices and recommended technologies for flying commercial drones beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS).
As part of the FAA’s 2015-chartered Pathfinder Initiative, the agency partnered with three private companies to accelerate discovery and inform regulation on drones: drone technology provider PrecisionHawk, news agency CNN, and BNSF Railway …
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Power | May 1, 2018