MoD and CAA to deliberately test crash drones - comment from senseFly

With increasing numbers of UAVs in the sky and near-misses being reported almost daily, commercial drone company, senseFly has teamed up with Air Navigation Pro to launch Safer Together, which will link up existing navigational technology used by general aviation pilots and UAV operators to ensure the skies are a safe place for both planes and drones to fly.

Jean-Cristophe Zufferey, CEO and co-founder of senseFly, comments on the need for a solution that improves communication for both parties:

“While it’s important that we understand the risks of mid-air collisions, it’s more important that we find a solution.

“Currently, drone operators don’t have the insight they need to avoid near-misses. This lack of awareness not only risks people’s safety, it burdens drone operators with full responsibility for flying safely. Both pilots and UAV operators need two-way, or bi-directional, awareness of one another’s flight paths to ensure that drone operators have the insight they need in order to change, pause or abort a flight and avoid collision.

“This is why we’ve worked closely with Air Navigation Pro to create Safer Together. The initiative uses existing simple and affordable technologies to enable seamless integration and will bring bi-directional communication between manned and unmanned aircraft. Near misses are a problem caused by a breakdown in communication and Safer Together is working to solve this problem.”