| ATC | Air Traffic Control |
| ATM | Air Traffic Management |
| BLOS/ BVLOS | Beyond visual line of sight; flying with an aircraft that does not have a pilot on board out of sight of the pilot, commander or observer. BVLOS is also often used as an abbreviation |
| EASA | European Aviation Safety Agency |
| EVLOS | Extended visual line of sight; flying with an aircraft that does not have a pilot on board out of sight of the pilot or commander, where visual control is maintained by the use of an observer; |
| ICAO | International Civil Aviation Organization |
| JARUS | Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems |
| NUAM | Norwegian Urban Air Mobility |
| ROx | RPAS-Operator category 1 to 3. |
| RPAS | Remotely piloted aircraft systems |
| SESAR | Single European Sky ATM Research |
| TCAS | Traffic Collision Avoidance System |
| UAM | Urban Air Mobility |
| UAS | Unmanned Aircraft System |
| UAV | Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle |
| UTM | Unmanned Traffic Management |
| VLOS | Visual line of sight; flying with an aircraft that does not have a pilot on board that can be carried out so that the aircraft can be observed at all times without aids such as binoculars, camera, or other aids, except ordinary glasses |