{"id":290355,"date":"2019-09-04T06:51:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T06:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290355"},"modified":"2019-09-04T06:51:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T06:51:44","slug":"aarav-unmanned-systems-drones-get-the-licence-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aarav-unmanned-systems-drones-get-the-licence-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Aarav Unmanned Systems drones get the licence to fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: India\u2019s civil aviation authority has certified a drone built by Aarav Unmanned Systems (AUS) for being compliant with the country\u2019s \u2018no permission, no take-off \u2019 (NP-NT) protocol, a necessity for any commercial drone flights in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Bengaluru-based AUS is the first company that has been granted certification for a drone in the \u2018small\u2019 category. The three previous certifications granted by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have been for \u2018micro\u2019 drones, which are much smaller. <\/p>\n<p>The DGCA defines drones based on their weight, with a small drone weighing 2-25 kg. For micro drones, the weight should be under 2 kg, including of the payload. \u201cWe\u2019re already in talks with several clients who were waiting for us to get the DGCA certification in order to use our services legally,\u201d said AUS CEO Vipul Singh. \u201cThey will now be able to use a made in India and for India drone that can help them realise their business potential.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: India\u2019s civil aviation authority has certified a drone built by Aarav Unmanned Systems (AUS) for being compliant with the country\u2019s \u2018no permission, no take-off \u2019 (NP-NT) protocol, a necessity for any commercial drone flights in the country. Bengaluru-based AUS is the first company that has been granted certification for a drone in the \u2018small\u2019 category. The three previous certifications granted by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have been for \u2018micro\u2019 drones, which are much smaller. The DGCA defines drones based on their weight, with a small drone weighing 2-25 kg. For micro drones, the weight should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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-290355","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\/290355","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}