European workshop for MIDCAS

Representatives from European aviation authorities, air traffic management organisations and aviation industries gathered today in Brussels to attend the first workshop of the European collaboration project MIDCAS, Mid-Air Collision Avoidance System.In the future, unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, will operate in civilian airspace along with other aircraft. For this to work, the unmanned craft must have a system for detecting and avoiding other aircraft; what is known as a sense and avoid system. In June 2009, The European Defence Agency (EDA) ordered the development of a sense and avoid