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Situational Awareness systems allows for different levels of intelligence when it comes to traffic management. Such systems can bring in raw video data, real-time information, send & receive data from fixed and mobile posts and share information across different agencies. This enables improved real-time monitoring, early detection and thus faster response times.

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For the unmanned aircraft world the insurance requirements may not be so clear but as a minimum all Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) operators should have the appropriate third party liability insurance in place. When Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) start entering the commercial environment, insurance will be a must. Currently there are very few companies that give such service.

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This articles presents a definition of situational awareness and focusses on airlines in particular. It explains the complex process of gaining and maintaining situational awareness, focuses on how it may be lost and proposes prevention and recovery strategies. This briefing note is intended to help the reader gain and maintain situational awareness, to prevent falling into the traps associated with the loss of situational awareness and to avoid the adverse effects of the loss of situational awareness on flight safety.

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The oil network conisists of valuable assets, which is owned, maintained and operated by private or government companies. Protecting such assets is crucial in continuing, not only oil business operations successful but also to keep the world going. In this article we discuss the potential ways to help you solve these issues with a particular focus on UAV and UAV outsourced services.

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Emergencies and incidents are an unpleasant truth which airlines and any organisation can face. People accept that incidents happen but will never accept that an airline was unprepared. And so will the courts! This article tries to outline where an airline can improve emergency efficiencies and how can we help you to solve them.

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The Debate between the Air Traffic Controllers and the UAV Manufacturers/Operators is raging on. Manufacturers and operators of UAVs are frustrated that they cannot operate within the normal air traffic aerospace as the Air Traffic Controllers' Institutions around the world are not comfortable enough with the available technology. Is there any solution for this debacle?

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As an individual working in the aviation industry, regardless of occupation (ATC, pilot, manager, engineer) we must be aware that we not only are part of a process chain, but also one of the fail-safes in the accident prevention system. Although a self – check before a task is important (eg. IMSAFE), a constant awareness of the factors which cause us to fail is also crucial to accident prevention.

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Civilian UAVs typically deliver data from both Aerial Surveillance and Geophysical Survey work and consistently deliver superior quality data compared with manned aircraft.

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There are many advantages of using an Unmanned Air Vehicle relative to use of a manned light plane such as a Cessna Skylane. These advantages are even greater when on considers replacement of larger aircraft and or utilisation over hazadous environments.

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MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. researchers are ramping up their use of unmanned, remote-controlled airplanes this year to penetrate the heart of Atlantic hurricanes in the hope of learning more about what makes the giant storms tick.

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