Tag: AUVSI
Did Safety of the NAS Take A Holiday?
You might be thinking that this story is about the six-month deadline the FAA missed for the online aeronautical knowledge and safety test for the cake-eaters formally...
AUVSI TOP – Is It All Over But The Crying?
Is the Trusted Operator Program toast and what should AUVSI do to save face and members if this turns out to be another awkward and off-putting catastrophe?...
What’s up with the AUVSI?
Including my tenure as Silicon Valley Chapter President (A Nostalgic Retrospective)
When I took over the Silicon Valley chapter, it was about 5 or 6 people sitting around voting on...
My bid for AUVSI President 2018 – Patrick Egan
We as an industry community have a rare opportunity to work with both a new Presidential Administration that understands the nuances of the aviation business (Trump Airlines and a...
Be Careful What You Lobby For
This is breaking news. It appears that proceedings on the ID and Tracking ARC did not produce the desired results. Word on the street is that the last ditch...
2017 AUVSI sUAS Competition Results – ArduPilot dominates
Well done to the Ardupilot team, fourteen out of the top twenty finalists in the AUVSI Student UAS competition, were running Ardupilot. Positions one to six taken by the...
Isn’t The Taylor Ruling A Cause For Celebration?
Wait a minute you say, I thought the ruling was a good thing. So did I, but some of the more renowned drone advocates and experts do not appear...
AUVSI Statement on U.S. Court of Appeals Decision on UAS Registration
Brian Wynne, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), today issued the following statement on the U.S. Court of Appeals decision striking down the...
Update On The Bid For The AUVSI Executive Vice Presidents Position
Fellow Drone Enthusiasts,
First, I’d like to thank everyone for all of the kind words about my previous efforts. The recognition makes the years of hard work that much more...
FLIR Systems focuses on IR camera cores for unmanned vehicles at...
Infrared systems developer FLIR Systems (NASDAQ: FLIR; Portland, OR, USA) reports that it has delivered more than 11,000 infrared (IR) camera cores into the unmanned vehicle market. FLIR cites "increased popularity of unmanned...