The FAA said it expects that initial flights using UTM services will begin in August and the agency promised to begin issuing more authorizations in the Dallas/Fort Worth area soon. The announcement comes as the FAA works to release the Normalizing UAS BVLOS Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) later this year. That puts the agency on track to meet the 20-month timeline to pass the final BVLOS rule, which Congress gave the FAA in May with the passage of the FAA Reauthorization Act. The Key Site was initially established by seven operators to create a communications and conflict detection-and-avoidance system for UAVs, similar to but separate from the federal air traffic management (ATM) system for crewed aircraft. “Under today’s FAA rules, there wasn’t anything in place that they could point to and say, ‘Okay industry, here’s the rule to follow.

Source: Forbes August 01, 2024 03:21 UTC