Dubai: The Dubai Civil Aviation Authority will restrict access to retail aerial drones only to those who have registered and are trained to operate the devices without posing a danger to others.
Neon-colored flying machines paint streaks through the air as they dodge, weave, and drop from one glowing checkpoint to the next on a complex racecourse. The pilots are comfortably detached, steering the vehicles remotely using streamed video to VR headsets. They are spared all injury except the shame of defeat that stems from a race-ending crash. For the Drone Racing League, this is the heart and the joy of an infant sport: a skill test for humans, performed by robots.
For the past couple of years, mediocre drone videos of dramatic landscapes have littered the internet. Like, we get it, drone pilots. Your camera flies and stuff looks pretty from the sky and the whole conceit is pretty trite at this point. And then I saw these four minutes of magic, filmed in South Africa.
Drone technology is having a major impact on mapping. Technologies such as Global Positioning System (GPS)...
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Once again, the importance of CAA Regulations is highlighted in a near miss during the devastating fires in Imizamo Yethu last weekend.
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30 Days jail for operator of drone that knocked woman unconscious - This happened in the USA and illustrates why South Africa has instituted stringent regulations to govern the use of drone technology. Our staff are fully licensed, compliant and certified to fly drones for commercial purposes.
