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UAV operations
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Regarding the range of the operations and requirements for the hardware and software, there are 3 major classes of the UAV operations:
- VLOS - operations within Visual Line Of Sight
- BVLOS - operations Beyond Visual Line Of Sight
- FPV - First Person View
We provide summary and characteristics in the following sections.
Flying VLOS
The VLOS flying is the first drone operators use. And the most common one, requiring the lowest level of certification or no certification at all (depends on the scenario, UAV weight, flying region). The most common question is “How far can I go?”. It depends on the regulations, drone size, weather conditions but the best approach within the formal limits is given by the following rule: VLOS flying requires UAVO to be able to see and orient the platform using the naked eye [1].
flying BVLOS
flying FPV
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Indeed, “the naked eye” means you can wear glasses, that you use daily, but you cannot use binoculars or a telescope or a long-range camera with zoom, to observe the drone.
