How Are Low-Altitude Weather Services Adapting to UAM?

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With new technology comes new regulations to keep operations safe and prevent disruption to daily life. So how do low-weather altitude operations play a role in this new emerging beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) vehicle trend?

According to Avionics Magazine, they're steadily trying to catch up. "'We have a critical problem with developing regulations because the 2018 [FAA] Reauthorization Act said that we cannot make current regulations more restrictive, so the current regulations for Part 107 operations — and even the Part 91 or the 135 operations that we see now for unmanned vehicles — don’t have sufficient weather requirements,' said FAA Aviation Safety Inspector Marilyn Pearson. 'So we’re going to have to determine what a policy might be, or perhaps on a case-by-case basis.' Even if those regulations were in place, FAA-approved data sources may not currently be able to meet all the needs of low-altitude drone flights."

In this instance, case-by-case policy and gradual steps to ensure "good enough" regulations are a stepping stone during an evolving process to manage these vehicles.

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