Musings and observations from the uAvionix team.
Written by Dr. Jim Davis, Director of Policy & Regulatory Affairs at uAvionix, featured at Military Embedded Systems. The idea of combat ID or IFF is to provide a warfighter with a means of instantly determining if an encountered entity is friendly or hostile. With aircraft, the specific technology employed is an IFF transponder.
The uAvionix ping200X transponder and truFYX GPS recently enabled UAS specialists, Flylogix, to conduct ambitious Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations in the North Sea. Who is Flylogix? Flylogix is a team of unmanned aircraft system operators with a mission to make our world a better place with UAS at the fulcrum. The UK based team is delivering smarter [...]
Currently, Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is all the rage. As an industry – we tend to bounce around every few months to a new “thing” which occupies all the press, chatter, and investment. In the past, it’s been Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS), package delivery, Detect and Avoid (DAA), Unmanned [...]
What’s going on? When we achieved STC certification of tailBeacon, we made a cautious decision to announce that installation on rotorcraft was not permitted. Understandably, we received a lot of feedback and disappointment from the helicopter community. This disappointment was justified in that we had previously communicated that tailBeacon would be [...]
By now, you’ve hopefully heard the news that uAvionix completed the acquisition of AeroVonics’ fantastic cockpit display technology this week. We’ve hardly been able to contain our excitement in sharing this news with you. It is a milestone event in the growth of our company, and I wanted to take [...]
As you read this, the ASTM proposed standard for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) remote identification (RID) is up for F38 Committee vote for the second time this year. It has until Oct 16 to be voted on by committee members. I’m going to vote against it, again. I don’t want to be one [...]
ADS-B OUT (on manned aircraft) + ADS-B IN (on UAS) = Safer Skies
uAvionix announces development and testing of skyLink CNPC radio for UAS and UAM
A UTM-B Demonstration in Conjunction with Operation Zenith
uAvionix adds UAT weather delivery from Wycombe Air Park and Dunsfold Aerodrome.