Drone highways are almost here
Drone highways are almost here
ByHemanth CSHemanth CS / Updated: Feb 3, 2021, 14:14 IST
IISc in Challakere, 230 km from Bengaluru
Drone highways in the sky are not a futuristic fantasy anymore. They’re being readied at the second campus of the
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Challakere, Chitradurga district, 230 km from Bengaluru.
The highways will be exclusive corridors for testing and flying both
military and commercial drones.
Around 1373 acres of land for this corridor has been earmarked and it will have drone ports too.
“A massive drone corridor will be coming up in about 1373 acres of land at the campus where testing and flying of both military and commercial drones would be carried out in the future. Equipped with drone ports and air corridor systems, autonomous flying machines of all sizes including combat ones will be tested here,” Raejus Job a DGCA- NTRO, Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems instructor told Bangalore Mirror.
February 3, 2021
You are reading it here first: Twenty six more green zones have been approved for compliant drones to fly in India, bringing the total to thirty-two green zones, as per an order by the Civil Aviation Ministry. Green zones are essentially uncontrolled airspaces where an Air Traffic Control (ATC) service is not necessary. Drones compliant with the “no permission, no takeoff” (NPNT) protocol will be able to fly in these airspaces. In April, the Ministry had approved six such airspaces.
The latest airspaces to get approval are in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh. The order, signed by Amber Dubey who is joint secretary at the Civil Aviation Ministry, said that the green zones will be enabled on the Digital Sky platform soon.
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