Drone operators gear up as DGCA grants permission for delivery trials

The 13 consortia that have been made the cut need to perform long-range flying tests for 100 hours each and submit the reports to the aviation regulator by the September last week

Drone companies and delivery start-ups are gearing up for trial operations with their consortium partners after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCS) gave them go ahead for conducting experimental Below Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations. 

The 13 consortia that have been made the cut are required to perform long-range flying tests for 100 hours each and submit the reports containing analytics and logs of the flight time to the aviation regulator by the last week of September. This information will be used as a base to formulate BVLOS framework by BVLOS Experiment Assessment and Monitoring (BEAM) Committee under the