{"id":16791,"date":"2020-11-03T00:06:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T00:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=16791"},"modified":"2020-11-03T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T00:06:07","slug":"groundbreaking-drone-work-to-continue-at-ncdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-carolina\/groundbreaking-drone-work-to-continue-at-ncdot\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking Drone Work to Continue at NCDOT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The N.C. Department of Transportation plans to continue\nworking with its federal partners to find new and innovative ways to use drones\nfor critical transportation needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday that\nNCDOT will be one of the participants in BEYOND, the FAA\u2019s new drone program\nthat replaces the Integration Pilot Program, or IPP, that ended in October\nafter a three-year run. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDrones are going to be an increasingly important part of\nour transportation system, and we need to make sure our state and our country\nare ready for them,\u201d said North Carolina\u2019s Transportation Secretary Eric\nBoyette. \u201cThe tremendous advancements we\u2019ve seen over these past few years laid\nthe groundwork for safe and integrated drone usage, and we\u2019re excited to\ncontinue this important work into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NCDOT\u2019s participation in the FAA IPP has focused on using\ndrones for package delivery and infrastructure inspections, while working out\nmany of the challenges faced when using drones for flights beyond the visual\nline of sight and flying over people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In North Carolina, officials will use BEYOND to improve upon\nmany of the achievements from the IPP program. Those achievements included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The groundbreaking use of drones to document\nroad conditions after Hurricane Florence;<\/li><li>The establishment of the country\u2019s first routine\ncommercial drone delivery service;<\/li><li>The use of drones to deliver medical supplies at\nWakeMed Hospital in Raleigh, Novant Health near Charlotte, Wake Forest Baptist\nHealth in Winston-Salem and Vidant Healthplex in Wilson;<\/li><li>The first public demonstration of a passenger\ndrone in North America;<\/li><li>Delivery of food and other small goods by drone\nfrom a Walmart in Fayetteville;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Issuance of the nation\u2019s first waiver allowing drones to be\nflown beyond the visual line of sight to conduct bridge inspections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than half of all flights completed nationwide under the\nIPP were flown by the North Carolina team. NCDOT partners flew more than 3,400\nmedical delivery flights, and NCDOT completed more than 300 flights in response\nto natural disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The N.C. Department of Transportation plans to continue working with its federal partners to find new and innovative ways to use drones for critical transportation needs. The Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday that NCDOT will be one of the participants in BEYOND, the FAA\u2019s new drone program that replaces the Integration Pilot Program, or IPP, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina","category-unmanned-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/NC-Droneedit-10.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16793,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions\/16793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}