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The FAA's rewritten processing order puts a see-and-avoid waiver on every Part 91 drone approval, splits line of sight and BVLOS requests between two offices, and relaxes coordination for vertical structure inspections.
The CAA's fourth edition of CAP3040 adds a route for running equivalent atypical air environment operations at multiple sites under a single authorisation, with the site-by-site evidence moving to the operator.
Seven fixed docks, one operations centre and a command link that has to survive at altitude. The rail deployment is a useful template for remote response work.
The FAA's national environmental finding for drone package delivery replaced market-by-market reviews with one siting envelope. That envelope now applies to any fixed base of operations.
The FAA pushed its BEYOND Phase 2 proposal deadline from September 10 to September 25. The focus areas read like a map of where commercial BVLOS is hardest today.
The FAA's own staff say the harder job starts after Part 108: shared information, identity and detect and avoid. A GAO report from February spells out the gap.
TSA is recruiting BVLOS operators for closed technical roundtables on the security programs Part 108 will require. The intake deadline is October 19, and the useful preparation starts now.
Two new FAA UAS test sites bring the U.S. network to nine locations. The practical lesson for commercial drone teams is not that a capability is automatically approved, but that evidence, operating context, and the boundary between testing and routine operations matter.
The UK CAA's airspace architecture concept offers a practical lesson: treat airspace status as dispatch data before a commercial drone team rolls.
