Sun, Mar 31, 2019
As State Farm launched their new drone program to better assist customers after storm damage, they needed to recruit and train employees to become drone pilots.
Jessica Hodge, Joy Hillsman-Caffie and Shelley Cole are three of the six drone pilots for State Farm who are women. Her selection came as a shock to State Farm claims specialist, Jessica. Jessica explained that, “I consider myself an early adopter of the technology. State Farm is one of the first insurance companies to use drones and I’m one of the first drone pilots for State Farm. It’s cool to be on the cutting edge.” AirMap and Honeywell are developing a cost-effective drone tracking solution to provide airspace safety authorities with situational awareness of manned and unmanned aircraft operations within an airspace system. Together, the companies will develop a cost-effective hardware device to allow for UAS to maintain consistent communication with a UAS Traffic Management (UTM) system. UTM is a digital air traffic management system made up of technologies and services designed to maintain safe integration and separation of drones and other aircraft and objects in
low-altitude airspace via the exchange of mission-critical data and telemetry information. DJI is declaring that nine of its drone models will comply with the latest Transport Canada regulations for advanced drone operations in controlled airspace. This allows DJI customers to continue using their preferred drones in these operations after June 1, when Transport Canada’s new regulatory framework for civilian drone operations takes effect across Canada. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne-Unmanned!!!
Airborne-Unmanned 03.19.19 is chock full of info in this Weekly News Episode, Tuesday, March 19th 2019... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Sophie Hurlock, Brianne Cross, Christopher Odom, and Laura Hutson, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalist Tom Patton, this episode covers:
- Female State Farm Employees Make Their Mark As Drone Pilots
- AirMap And Honeywell Develop Cost-Effective Tracking Solution For Drones
- DJI Drones Comply With New Transport Canada Requirements For Advanced Operations
- Five Finalists Named For AUVSI Startup Showdown
- senseFly Introduces eBee X With MicaSense RedEdge-MX
- Airbus' Skyways Drone Demonstrates Capabilities During Shore-to-ship Trials In Singapore
- Special Weeks Ahead For Airborne Programming!
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