Callum Holland from the Future Safety and Innovation Team discusses the UK CAA’s proposed policy on unlocking beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations using an Atypical Air Environment. Hear how this could work in practice and how your views can help shape the final policy. 14 February 2024
The CAA aims to launch the new Digital PDRA01 Application Tool at the beginning of March. The aim is to simplify the PDRA01 application and renewal process, and to make it online.The key expected benefit is that applying for an OA will be made easy and quick. The review and approval process will also be automated…
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…
SORA is the Specific Operations Risk Assessment safety methodology that the CAA intends to adopt/recommend as an acceptable means of compliance to regulations in 2024 (est.), in its next version SORA v2.5. The JARUS group of experts published SORA v2.0 in 2019. That version is already implemented in many countries around the world. The CAA…
From the CAA on 16 Feb 2022. The Specific Operating Risk Assessment (SORA) is a way to classify the risk posed by a UAS operation and then identify mitigations and safety objectives to counter those risks. It allows the UAS operator to identify operational limitations and training objectives for the personnel involved in the flights, technical…
The Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems (JARUS) is currently consulting on a future Specific Operating Risk Assessment (SORA), which enables operators to classify the risk posed by a drone being flown in the specific category and then identify mitigations and safety objectives. The CAA is encouraging UK operators to respond to this consultation…
