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NUAIR Chief Operations Officer Tony Basile says getting to this point was no easy task.
UPP2 was the most complex, technologically advanced project that the New York test site has ever worked on.
UPP2 is the second phase of the unmanned aircraft traffic management pilot program. Forty people from 13 different organizations came together physically and virtually to complete the work, which took 6 months to plan and three months to execute. Basile says they’re demonstrating a number of technologies for drones to operate safely in the air. That includes a collision avoidance system similar to those on airliners.
The systems give direction to each aircraft on how to avoid. So, it ll say to one aircraft descend and turn right, and the other craft it ll say climb and turn left.