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Transport Canada published new rules for flying drones in Canada on January 9, 2019. [1] The rules no longer treat recreational and commercial drone pilots differently but instead categorize operators as basic or advanced with different rules for each. [2] The rules apply to drones between 250 g (0.55 pounds) and 25 kg (55 pounds).
The Canadian government wants to buy at least three high-altitude, unmanned aerial vehicles for potential Arctic use. The Canadian government wants to modify the existing Global Hawk drone, which can operate at 20,000 metres, to meet the rigours of flying in Canada's Far North.
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or unmanned aircraft system (UAS), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft with no human pilot, crew, or passengers onboard. UAVs were originally developed through the twentieth century for military missions too "dull, dirty or dangerous" [ 1 ] for humans, and by the twenty-first, they had become essential ...
An airborne sensor operator (aerial sensor operator, ASO, Aerial Remote Sensing Data Acquisition Specialist, Aerial Payload Operator, Police Tactical Flight Officer, Tactical Coordinator etc.) is the functional profession of gathering information from an airborne platform (Manned or Unmanned) and/or oversee mission management systems for academic, commercial, public safety or military remote ...
The MMIST CQ-10A SnowGoose is a cargo delivery unmanned aerial vehicle that has reached IOC (Initial Operational Capability) with the United States Armed Forces with the delivery of 15 vehicles. The SnowGoose UAV is produced by the Canadian company Mist Mobility Integrated Systems Technology (MMIST).
An autonomous aircraft is an aircraft which flies under the control of on-board autonomous robotic systems and needs no intervention from a human pilot or remote control.Most contemporary autonomous aircraft are unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) with pre-programmed algorithms to perform designated tasks, but advancements in artificial intelligence technologies (e.g. machine learning) mean that ...
Belgian Army – 2 systems ordered in December 2020. [31] Brunei. Royal Brunei Air Force - 5 systems acquired in 2022. [32] Canada. Canadian Army – 2 systems with 5 aircraft ordered in 2016. A second system with 5 aircraft ordered in 2019 for delivery in summer 2022. [33] [34] The DND was also the first international customer for the UAS. [35]
Founded in 2007, it is a subsidiary of Denver, Colorado based company FLIR Systems. [1] The company has produced a variety of VTOL quadcopters unmanned aerial vehicles including the Aeryon Scout and the Aeryon SkyRanger series. Their UAV have been deployed in multiple disasters, conflicts around the world as well as being used by police in ...