Mail delivery has long been touted as a use case for drone technology, but it's the wind-blasted archipelago of Orkney, off the coast of northern Scotland, that has beaten the rest of the UK to achieving this.the launch of the Orkney I-Port drone delivery service, backed by the Orkney Islands Council Harbour Authority and Glasgow-based airline Loganair.
This means that Orkney I-Port can operate permanently under existing regulatory frameworks for extended visual line of sight flights rather than beyond visual line of sight permissions. BVLOS is an operation in which the remote pilot or observer does not use visual reference to remotely piloted aircraft in the conduct of flight, and requires additional permissions from the Civil Aviation Authority to perform.