Via Unmanned Aerial, it has been announced that Microdrones completed a series of beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) test flights on July 13 and 14 in Alma, Quebec, using the company’s md4-1000 UAV.

Using the md4-1000 UAV with a variety of payloads attached to it, Microdrones conducted a total of 10 flights, which were flown by Microdrones’ Jocelyne Bois, flight operations manager; Jeremy Jung, research and development engineer; and Yannick Savey, UAS pilot.

“We are very excited about the results,” Bois says.

“All flights went well, and we easily exceeded our intended flight lengths. Our goal was to test the remote control, telemetry and battery endurance for those distances. Both performed beautifully.”

The first set of test flights was made up of long-range flights over the Alma airport’s runway. The longest flight in this set was three kilometers back and forth, and the aircraft made the trip with battery life to spare.

The second set of flights involved altitude flight testing, and the UAV reached a height of nearly 2,800 feet.

The flights were flown with a “standard configuration of RC, telemetry and batteries;” meaning that the UAV, as sold today, is ready for BVLOS flights, according to Microdrones.

Microdrones’ md4-1000 UAV is one of just a few aircraft included in Transport Canada’s list of compliant UAS.

Transport Canada granted Microdrones permission to conduct the flights, and Transport Canada also attended Microdrones’ testing at the Unmanned Aerial System Centre for Excellence in Alma, Quebec.