{"id":274642,"date":"2019-05-16T05:25:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T05:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274642"},"modified":"2019-05-16T05:25:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T05:25:43","slug":"dgca-eyes-allowing-drones-for-air-taxis-e-deliveries-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-eyes-allowing-drones-for-air-taxis-e-deliveries-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA eyes allowing drones for air taxis, e-deliveries, trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India will soon take the first step towards operating drones \u201cbeyond line of sight\u201d \u2014 flying them over a distance where the operator can\u2019t see this \u201cremotely piloted aircraft (RPA)\u201d while piloting it to its destination and back. <\/p>\n<p>Once successful, this will eventually pave the way for using drones for deliveries, e-commerce, and even as air taxis in areas of India where there are no security concerns that would prohibit their use. <\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has invited expressions of interest (EOI) from consortia of experts for \u201cconducting experimental beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations of RPA in India, leading to submission of proof of concept (PoC) for safe BVLOS operations\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India will soon take the first step towards operating drones \u201cbeyond line of sight\u201d \u2014 flying them over a distance where the operator can\u2019t see this \u201cremotely piloted aircraft (RPA)\u201d while piloting it to its destination and back. Once successful, this will eventually pave the way for using drones for deliveries, e-commerce, and even as air taxis in areas of India where there are no security concerns that would prohibit their use. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has invited expressions of interest (EOI) from consortia of experts for \u201cconducting experimental beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}