About this episode

Matt Collins interviews Dr. David Cole about the upcoming Part 108 regulations and lessons from Australia's BVLOS transition.

In this week's episode of Uncrewed Views, Matt Collins speaks with Dr. David Cole, co-founder and CEO of FlyFreely. The two discuss lessons the U.S. can draw from Australia's BVLOS regulatory transition, what Part 107 operators need to know as Part 108 approaches, and the overlooked operational challenges organizations should be planning for now. Link to Commercial UAV News' State of the Industry Survey: https://survey.divcom.com/s3/COMMERCIAL-DRONE-INDUSTRY-State-of-the-Industry-Survey-2026

People in this episode

Host: Matt Collins

Guest: Dr. David Cole

Topics covered

• BVLOS regulatory transition
• Part 107 operators
• Part 108 preparation
• operational challenges
• drone industry

Keywords

• Part 108
• drone regulations
• BVLOS
• FlyFreely
• U.S. drone industry
• operational challenges
• Part 107

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FlyFreely, Commercial UAV News

Places: U.S., Australia

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