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UK lays world's longest autonomous drone superhighway

Neil Barnes Silver badge

Oh yes; the general situation is that more controlled airspace is higher up. So you can, for example, fly under the controlled airspace around an airport, except in its immediate vicinity where the control goes to ground level.

But generally, class G runs from ground to 10,000 feet, or higher in some locations, and that's where GA flies VFR. I think if the drones are flying commercial patterns with defined high altitude corridors and between terminal controlled locations, there shouldn't be an issue - except when they are forced to descend out of it for e.g. an emergency descent.

The point being that I'm unsure whether an autonomous drone, or even a remotely controlled one, can fly VFR.

I guess I'll have a better opinion - I could be concerned over nothing - when I get more info on this.

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