We ran out of time at the ARPAS-UK Annual Conference 2024 – due to some excellent discussions in previous sessions and weren’t able to run this session. We promised to run a webinar on Risk Quantification and the next steps for the BVLOS Special Interest Group and this is it.
In addition the JARUS SORA v2.5 went live this week (20/6/24), which means it will be coming soon to a UK SORA which will go out for consultation. How will industry understand enough to respond?
Find out about this and more in the summary presentation on BVLOS and Risk Quantification that ARPAS-UK delivered in November 2023 – as well as Next Steps will be presented by Aleks Kowalski and Owen McAree.
Key Points that will be covered:
- Introduction, Background & Context
- Active Engagement
- Fundamentals of Risk
- Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Course Fundamentals: Ground Risk, Air Risk
- MAC Mitigations & Risk Ratios
- Conclusions & Next Steps
About the Speakers
Aleks Kowalski
Aleks is an Airline Captain with 20 years aviation experience. In 2014, he co-founded UAVAir (RAE), which became Consortiq and in 2018 co-founded Neuron Innovations Ltd. He now advises multiple organisations on BVLOS, alongside being a Director of ARPAS-UK he is also co-chair of the Drone Platform and Counter-Drone Special Interest Group for ADS.
He is a Flight Safety Specialist for BALPA within their ATM, Environment and Emerging Technology Groups, and sits on many committees including standards bodies. He is also the secretary and Founder Member of the Shared Airspace Council. He holds an Engineering degree (MA) from Cambridge University, and a PGCE in Mathematics (Cantab). Having seen the influence an effective trade association can have at government level, Aleks looks at the longer-term strategic importance bringing together all UAS pilots, large and small, the ecosystems around them – whilst highlighting the value of education to make drones a career path.
Owen McAree
Owen spent over ten years working in aerospace engineering research, including building drones, writing the relevant software through to working out how to use them in the real world. This included working at distance, liaising with several Aviation Authorities and writing the Safety Cases for the projects.
This naturally showed him multiple different approaches to BVLOS operations, including Risk Quantification which rapidly became the clearest option, particularly in terms of scalability for companies.
Owen wrote and taught the ARPAS-UK RQ for BVLOS Operations that ARPAS-UK ran in the autumn 2023.
Watch the Interview between Elena Major & Owen McAree about the 2023 Risk Quantification courses: