‘We held a very constructive meeting with RAEs this week that enabled us to brief them on latest developments and plans for the future. The RAEs had specifically requested to be informed prior to us publishing information more generally.  Now that meeting has taken place we can confirm that there have been no changes to the requirements or flying privileges given by using a PDRA01 risk assessment. We will be publishing an update to the CAP722H publication shortly which will confirm this. As with all regulatory bodies we keep our requirements under constant review to make sure they are fit for purpose and this equally applies to all drone requirements.  We will therefore continue to keep all regulation under review.

‘We’d like to apologise for any recent confusion over the use of the PDRA01. We will aim to work closer with RAE organisations and operators in the future as we consider any developments. Our teams will now be using this latest position in their communications with operators.’