Yep you read it right, historic day for sUAS everywhere. Oh except in America ;-)
French Civil Aviation Authority, the DGAC, awarded Delair-Tech the first authorisation ever issued to a UAS company in France, for a civil UAS to fly over 100 km in French airspace.
Delair-Tech is based in Toulouse and specialised in the design and manufacturing of long endurance mini-UAS.
Well done Delair-Tech
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Hi everybody
I wonder if outside DJI and mikrocopter, requests for approvals were made to the french DGAC approved for a multirotor (or fixed wing) (S1, 2 or 2) in the environment opensource arduino (APM, CRIUS or other)
thank you for information
it can help me before contacting them.
Well that's hardly a requirement really, I can jump that and so can many many other people here. It would in fact be a very sensible standard to get things started. Especially if you only need a PPL, I know at least three ATPL's flying UA, I think just about all of the civilian's on contact in desert based locations are ATPL's. If all it takes is getting a PPL I think French flight schools will be busy with potential UA pilots.
With an empty weight of 1.7kg and a wingspan of 1.8m, I'd say it's stuffed full of batteries. Nicely done though with a fair bit of tech on board, according to the blurb.
Wayne Garris was doing some multi-hour flights a short while ago with his new Techpod prototype.