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DJI Avata 360 FPV drone over an industrial harbour in low evening light

October 28, 2026

Avata 360 gets waypoints: what it means for operators

DJI gives the Avata 360 waypoint missions, zoom in FocusTrack and RC Pro 2 support. What it means for operators, your SORA file and the European market.

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A quadcopter flying between trees while a soft green line marks its planned route and a second drone approaches from the left

October 8, 2026

SANDO gives UAVs a mathematical guarantee of collision-free flight paths

MIT researchers build a planner that formally proves a UAV cannot collide in an unknown environment with moving obstacles.

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Two soldiers scanning an empty sky from a concrete apron beside a chain-link fence, with a patrol vehicle and the hangars of a Dutch military airbase behind them

October 8, 2026

Dutch defence silent on drone incidents: openness would help the enemy

The Dutch defence ministry refuses to answer substantive questions about the 2025 drone incidents and withholds its overview of observed objects.

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Light aircraft and low hangars at a regional aerodrome in the Alsace countryside, with a drone hovering low above a grassy field outside the perimeter fence

October 7, 2026

Prison sentence for drone flight over Colmar-Houssen aerodrome

A court in Colmar gave a drone pilot eight months in prison for illegal flights over Colmar-Houssen aerodrome, converted into home detention.

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Person at a desk flying a browser-based FPV simulator on a laptop, with a black handheld FPV radio connected over USB

October 7, 2026

ShramkoGSFPV brings free FPV simulation to the browser

ShramkoGSFPV lets you fly FPV free in the browser, with Gaussian Splatting scenes, WebGPU and rates verified against Betaflight 4.5.1.

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Cinema camera on a gimbal rig with a compact black wireless video transmitter, while a focus puller in the background watches a live feed on a small monitor on a busy film set

October 5, 2026

DJI SDR Transmission 2 brings 4K HDR to busy film sets

DJI SDR Transmission 2 sends DCI 4K/60 HDR at 35 ms latency and up to 4 km, with five transmitters and 40 receivers per set.

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Drone lifting off from a docking station at a railway depot with parked trains at dusk in the rain

October 2, 2026

NS deploys drones and No Graffiti! stickers against train graffiti

Dutch Railways tests drones from docking stations at train depots to catch graffiti writers in the act, alongside No Graffiti! stickers over tags.

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Enterprise drone with a multi-sensor gimbal beside a closed docking station under power lines on wet asphalt

September 30, 2026

DJI Matrice 5TD surfaces in China filing, 750 g heavier than the 4TD

A Chinese registry lists the DJI Matrice 5TD at 2.6 kg empty, 750 g heavier than the 4TD. What that means for European drone operators.

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Zoning of a civil CTR with zone 1, 2A, 2B, 3 and 4 around a regional airport

September 29, 2026

More Airspace for Drones Around Civil Airports From 26 November

From 26 November 2026, mandatory radio contact with air traffic control is dropped in the outer parts of the civil CTRs around Schiphol, Rotterdam, Groningen, Maastricht and Lelystad.

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