Reducing measurement and reporting overhead for aerial vehicles

An apparatus for wireless communication at an aerial user equipment (UE), comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors;
• and
• instructions stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:
• receive, from a network entity, control signaling that indicates a plurality of beam measurement configurations that the aerial UE is to use for beam measurement and reporting associated with a plurality of beams;
• activate a subset of beam measurement configurations of the plurality of beam measurement configurations, the subset of beam measurement configurations of the plurality of beam measurement configurations based at least in part on a current location of the aerial UE;
• monitor a set of beams of the plurality of beams in accordance with the subset of beam measurement configurations of the plurality of beam measurement configurations;
• and
• transmit, to the network entity, a measurement report indicating one or more measurements of a subset of beams of the set of beams in accordance with the subset of beam measurement configurations.