As the UAV industry develops the safe control of operators and their operations is coming rapidly to the fore. All operators are going to be duty bound to have a fully audited and certified safety case that makes operational risk management processes crystal clear.
An important contribution to these developments is JARUS – the Joint Aviation Authorities on Unmanned Systems – which is developing specific operational procedures for UAV operators.
The Sky Hopper team is well aware and staying up to date with these developments. What is important for the UK is that we get involved in how this regulation develops; these procedures are, today, based on working documents that are adjusting to events at a fast pace.
You can see the latest news on these matters at http://rps-info.com/blog/notification-of-sora-publication/. As always the report is full of endless acronyms, but that’s quite normal for this sort of regulatory framework development.