By: Colonel (ret) Bernie Derbach, KR Droneworks Academy, 04 Oct 26 (credit to: Peter Frank Linkedin article: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7511833442922364928/ Integrating Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flights into civil airspace often focuses heavily on high-cost technological interventions: active onboard radar, cooperative transponders, optical camera arrays, and complex acoustic Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) avionics. Yet one of the most effective, mathematically...

By: Colonel (ret) Bernie Derbach, KR Droneworks Academy, 29 Sep 26 When a commercial drone drops from the sky, collides with infrastructure, or drifts away uncontrolled, the post-incident postmortem often gravitates toward an easy, convenient culprit: the compass suffered magnetic interference, the battery failed, or pilot error caused the crash. Attributing a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) incident to a solitary technical glitch or a split-second operator misstep fundamentally...

By: Colonel (ret) Bernie Derbach, KR Droneworks Academy, 24 Sep 26 Navigational literacy is often what separates an entry-level hobbyist from a professional Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) operator. Modern multi-rotors feel remarkably autonomous: an operator engages the motors, the global positioning system locks, and the aircraft holds position against stiff gusts. Underneath the automated flight controller, however, the drone constantly resolves discrepancies between multiple...