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.
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.
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?