Connor Champ of the Law Commission will provide an overview and briefing on the consultation. For ARPAS-UK members keen to contribute to information regulation: Autonomy in Aviation: drones and advanced air mobility. About the Speaker: Connor Champ has been at the Law Commission for six years. He has previously worked on the Automated Vehicles Project….
SORA v2.5 is now published, and the UK CAA intends to implement a UK version of v2.5. Let’s walk through a practical example in conversation with Nathanel Apter, who has been advising operators on how to get approvals from the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation using SORA. Nathanel has also been part of the…
Until DISCO is in place, the CAA’s Shared Services are in charge of processing the PDRA01 within the CAA. Based on their database, we can assess that there were 2838 PDRA01 holders in CY 2023, vs 3515 in CY2012. The numbers for the early months of 2024 tend to indicate a continued attrition rather than…
Let’s each respond to the CAA’s consultation by April 2. ARPAS-UK supports the introduction of the Atypical Air Environment policy, as an incremental step to facilitate BVLOS operations in lower risk environment, where no another aircraft is expected to be, for example just above assets that are inspected. These will already unlock a lot of…
We welcome the concept of having incremental levels of Remote Pilot Competence as more complex operations become routine. The definition of BVLOS is not included. It would be useful to do so. # RPC Level 1: There is little/no? difference in the privileges with the GVC. Therefore, it should just be acknowledged that it would…
Strong and diverse keynotes today at Westminster eForum on drones to the question: “What priorities and next steps for the UK drone industry?” Our key messages were focusing on “Actions in 2024 to grow the commercially possible at scale & at a reasonable cost of compliance in the Here and Now”. Similar to the crawl,…
We had a meeting with representatives of the CAA’s Shared Services Centre SSC team, and would like to share some useful feedback wrt PDRA01 Application on hold. In terms of process within the CAA: The top 3 reasons why PDRA01 OA are put on hold by the SSC team are: 1. Inadequate Emergency Procedures. These are…
