Today, the Minister of Transport, the Honourable Omar Alghabra, announced the first proposed Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) drone rules in Canada, which are also among the first in the world.
The proposed changes to the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs) include rules for lower-risk operations of drones beyond visual line-of-sight, as well as for the operation of medium-sized drones within visual line-of-sight.
The proposed rules would require drones (all RPAS - including Fixed Wing and VTOL) to be capable of detecting and avoiding other air traffic to ensure safety.
https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-canada/news/2023/06/minister-of-transport-announces-canadas-first-proposed-drone-safety-regulations-for-beyond-visual-line-of-sight-operations.html
Anyone got a clue what “medium-sized drones” means. This could be a huge hindrance to the hobbyist community.
Ardupilot is already capable of sense and avoid as long as other aircraft is equipped with ADS-B out or other system that can provide the same information (assuming appropriate receiver exists).
The scope is quite good VLOS above 25kg and BVLOS.
It’s a bit bit vague right now what the specific requirements actually are, but ArduPilot Copter does a much better job of the “avoid” part than Plane or QuadPlane (VTOL).
Note that ADS-B is not required in Canada, so unless that changes, the “detect” part might need to be more than just installing an ADS-B receiver.
For me that is the ridiculous part of pretty much all Remote ID style systems, manned aircrafts not being required to broadcast positional information like UAS.
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it’s crazy, drones that were considered toys a few years ago need to have one but manned aircraft don’t. how are the unmanned aircract supposed to detect them?