Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as drones, are growing at an exponential rate throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, our country and the world.\u00a0 As of 2019, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) asserts that there are more than 19,000 sUAS registered in the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u00a0 Thus, this creates a potential increase in conflicts between manned aircraft and UAS in the airspace, especially surrounding airports.<\/p>\n
Therefore, a working group of airport directors\/managers, public safety personnel, the Virginia Department of Aviation, and the FAA assembled to provide common guidance for the integration of sUAS on or near public airports in the Commonwealth of Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as drones, are growing at an exponential rate throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, our country and the world.\u00a0 As of 2019, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) asserts that there are more than 19,000 sUAS registered in the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u00a0 Thus, this creates a potential increase in conflicts between … Continue reading “Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS): 2019 Guide for Virginia’s Airports”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":8684,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"03-56-details-template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8566","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/acrpwebresource13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/acrpwebresource13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/acrpwebresource13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/acrpwebresource13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/acrpwebresource13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/acrpwebresource13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/acrpwebresource13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/acrpwebresource13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/acrpwebresource13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crp.trb.org\/acrpwebresource13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}