Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 3 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Quidich is proud to announce the successful completion of India's First No-Permission No-Takeoff (NPNT) compliant drone flight on the A200 Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS).

The flight was carried out in a green zone identified by the DGCA, near Tumkur in Karnataka and marks a critical breakthrough in online testing and permission systems. This will go a long way in opening up the skies for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).

Until very recently, the use of Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicles has been highly regulated in India by The Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. The DGCA had issued a blanket ban on civilian use of UAVs in 2014.

However, in the following years, it became evident that UAVs offered significant advantages across diverse industry use-cases, ranging from Security and Surveillance applications, to Logistics and Aerial Cinematography. In view of this, MoCA & DGCA released a comprehensive policy on use of UAVs, which came into effect on 1st Dec 2018.

The test flight helped validate the successful operation of the Digital Sky platform and the efficacy of the online permission artefact architecture.

With the successfully validation of the entire compliance process via Digital Sky, the portal is now operational for use by the industry. We expect that the demarcation of flight zones (red, yellow, green) is completed at the soonest so that commercial UAV operations can resume.