Following the publication of the report for the Airspace4All-NATS Drone Infringement Safeguarding Project, the popular GA VFR flight planning & navigation software application SkyDemon has added a new traffic icon to represent drones.
This new drone traffic icon will be displayed when traffic is detected via ADS-B which has an ‘Emitter Category’ of ‘UAV’.
SkyDemon’s aural spoken warnings have also been updated to say “drone ahead, 2 miles”, etc.
These changes will come into effect with SkyDemon’s next general release of their software.
22nd November 2019
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Airspace4All has published the report on the joint Airspace4All-NATS Drone Infringement Safeguarding Research.
Airspace4All and NATS, working together with City Airport (Manchester Barton), EJS-Aerial and the University of Manchester devised and conducted a research project to assess the real-world situational awareness potential of Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones. The research project was specifically focussed on situational awareness of drone operators and other airspace users, through the use of ADS-B technology, in the mixed UK General Aviation (GA) environment.
A flight programme was undertaken at Barton airfield with drones and GA aircraft all equipped with ADS-B transceivers (ADS-B Out & In) and traffic displays, while Barton ATS were able to observe with the aid of equipment provided as part of the separate Airspace4All GA Airfield ATS ADS-B Traffic Display Trial.
21st November 2019
From Airspace4All.org