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How to Get Part 107 Re-Certified

Commercial drone pilots who received their Remote Pilot Airman Certificate under Part 107 may remember it only has a 24 month shelf life before they need to re-certify their knowledge. Yesterday, the FAA announced an update to its Remote Pilot – Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airman Certification Standards which detailed the process for recurrent testing. The recurrent […]

Uplift Data Partners & PlanGrid

Uplift Data Partners, the leading data capture pilot platform for enterprise businesses, announced it has integrated with PlanGrid, the leader in construction productivity software. Uplift’s 2D and 3D aerial drone imagery is now accessible directly into PlanGrid, giving construction teams a real-time view of job sites and dramatically improving their ability to detect costly errors […]

Multirotors give Agriculture a boost

Precision agriculture gets a boost from multirotors Here at the Roswell Flight Test Crew, we typically focus on the “sexy” applications for rotor drones: flying a First-Person View (FPV) machine over a burning building to support firefighters battling the blaze on the ground below, or using an aerial cinema rig to capture a dynamic shot […]

Drones & private property

Recent efforts to integrate commercial drones into everyday business endeavors, like package delivery, have shined a new light on an old issue: Who controls the airspace around private property? It is well established that the federal government has exclusive sovereignty over navigable airspace in the United States. Congress delegated the authority over defining and regulating […]

Eco-Friendly Multirotors — Keeping watch over endangered Alaskan sea otters

The beach was clear of ice and snow, and the gray rocks and gravel were drying in the warm sun. Nearby grass was showing hints of green, early for this Alaska spring. Drifting on its back in Kachemak Bay, near the town of Homer, Alaska, a sea otter ate morsels of food that it had […]

Zephyr Drone Sim Helps Trainers

Little Arms Studios, a leading developer of professional-grade simulation solutions, has unveiled new partnerships with premier unmanned aerial systems training programs at colleges and universities throughout the United States. As UAVs continue to become more ubiquitous in nearly every industry, students are seeking degree programs throughout the educational landscape which can provide them with a […]

FPV Pilot Profile – Shaun Taylor

What happens when a friend introduces a firefighter who is into drag racing to the YouTube drone racing scene? You get Shaun Taylor, a full-time drone racer from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who has blazed a winning trail around the world. I was able to spend some time with Shaun and got a chance to learn […]

FAA Picks North Dakota for IPP

North Dakota has been selected as one of 10 participants in a pilot program to integrate unmanned aerial systems into the national airspace. The U.S. Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration has selected the North Dakota Department of Transportation, with the Northern Plains Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Site in Grand Forks, for the UAS […]

Drone Clash Air Battles

Looking for a true test of your grit, flying skills, and battle strategy? Drone Clash, a real life video game of sorts, is a competition where drone teams battle each other. They can use as many drones as they like, but each team is only allowed two FPV video streams to their drones. This means, […]

SkyWatch.AI Drone Insurance App

With SkyWatch.AI’s flight safety & insurance app, you can plan your flight, buy a tailor-made hourly flight insurance policy and use its built-in flight module to see potential risks and hazards in real-time. The app gives you a unique flight-analysis and Safety Score after each flight, and pilots with a history of over five flights […]