The AAI cannot deal with drones mainly because they would be flying at 5 toes to choose care of crops to about 1,000 ft in the airspace.
PTI, Bengaluru
Published ON FEB 03, 2021 10:54 PM IST
The federal government is considering allowing for air visitors controllers, operated by personal entities, to deal with drone operations in the Indian airspace underneath 1,000 feet, said a senior Civil Aviation Ministry formal on Wednesday.
“The drone ATC (air targeted visitors controller) will be named UTM (unmanned website traffic administration) and it will collaborate with the manned site visitors management, which is currently being managed presently as a sovereign purpose by the Airports Authority of India (AAI),” stated Amber Dubey, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
The AAI, which functions underneath the ministry, manages all manned plane operations in the Indian airspace. A passenger aircraft frequently flies at a height of about 30,000 feet.
“The airspace down below 1,000 toes is reduced airspace and it would be the main playground of drones. For that, we may perhaps have a method of personal ATCs, which would be managed by private operators,” Dubey reported at a session organised by marketplace body FICCI at Aero India 2021.
“It could be a governing administration agency or a non-public company, it is a little something that would evolve,” he added.
The AAI are not able to handle drones due to the fact they would be flying at 5 feet to acquire treatment of crops to about 1,000 ft in the airspace, Dubey talked about.
Drone technologies is moving way more quickly than the restrictions so we have decided that we have to have to start out a parallel action, he mentioned.
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