Aeroscout is proud of receiving a flight permission for the Scout B-330 UAV Helicopter in compliance with SORA (Specific Operations Risk Assessment). The EASA published the SORA as a standard for drone operations with aircrafts over 25kg takeoff mass. It is valid in the EU and will be adopted by FOCA (Federal office of civil aviation, Switzerland) on 1 January 2023.      

Its already more than 10 years since the market entry of the Scout B1-100 UAV Helicopter. Aeroscout does not promote it to customers but still uses it for service activities. All over the years, an impressive amount of video footage was collected and compressed to a two minute video. The most important activities were related to laser scanning of biological...

The Aeroscout team made use of some warm days in spring to go for a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mission with the B-330 UAV and together with Gamma Remote Sensing AG. The SAR needs very accurate position and attitude information which was provided by a Honeywell HGuide n580. A specific 80m long flight line had to be exactly repeated several times by the UAV, which...

This beautiful picture shows the B-330 UAV Helicopter charring a Riegl VQ-480 II laser scanner payload. The scanner is well suited for the use in manned but also in large unmanned aircrafts like the B-330. 

Aeroscout maintains a good relationship to its insurance company. Beside the mandatory liability insurance, Aeroscout is proud owner of a full comprehensive insurance for the B-330 UAV Helicopters operated by the company itself.