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The publication has consolidated the current VTOL-capable aircraft (VCA) material, formerly known as SC-VTOL (special conditions for vertical take-off and landing) and its MoC (means of compliance), aiming to simplify the use of VCA requirements.
The MoC content has been revised with the following notable changes:
🔸The increase of the maximum certified take-off mass to 5700 kg
🔸Introducing the term "VCA" to replace "VTOL" following Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1111
🔸“EASA” changed to "the Agency", to support easier adoption of the content
🔸Corrections regarding text clarity and spelling
The document notes that although it has been published as EAR for VTOL, the content is still a special condition (SC) with its related MoC.
Feedback is encouraged via the Easy Access Rules area on the website.
The paper analysed factors such as robotic guidance, physics of flight, flight safety, communication and navigation, uncrewed aircraft missions, AI and social expectations on drones within Europe to identify and address the major constraints to allow U-space traffic autonomous guidance.
The document highlights 3 main conclusive factors:
🔸The current U-space concept requires more information for the U-space traffic autonomous guidance.
🔸The identified gaps must be closed to allow U-space traffic autonomous guidance.
🔸Filling the existing gaps has different urgencies.
The presentation slides and live recording are now available for the Occurrence Reporting for EASA Organisations. The webinar focused on relevant essential aspects of the regulatory framework for occurrence reporting applicable to organisations for which EASA is the competent authority, such as design organisations, production organisations, maintenance organisations, air operators, air navigation services organisations and flight crew training organisations.
The presentation introduced the ECCAIRS 2 (European Coordination Centre for Accident and Incident Reporting Systems), the digital platform established to assist aviation stakeholders in collecting, sharing and analysing their safety aviation information and practical guidance and best practices for stakeholder’s roles and responsibilities at organisation level.
The paper addresses the increasing use of airspace, the concerns regarding collisions between crewed and uncrewed aircraft and the lack of deconfliction in UAS BVLOS scenarios in the U.S.A.
Based on the highlighted issues, the document proposes several methods of advanced communication and electronic conspicuity technology to increase safety within U.S. airspace.
The key topics include:
🔸 An understanding of the aviation environment
🔸An understanding of electronic conspicuity
🔸A scalable solution for command and control (C2) for UAS
🔸A comparison with EASA’s aviation conspicuity efforts
The document acts as a Minimum Aviation System Performance Standards (MASPS) for the detect and avoid traffic system (DAA) for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) operating in certified category in class A to G airspaces under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR). The revision supersedes the 2022 publication ‘ED-271 MASPS for Detect And Avoid [Traffic] for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems in Airspace Classes A-C under IFR’ and contains the following updates:
🔸Alert and guidance requirements for RWC
🔸Assumed remote pilot (RP) behaviour based on remain well-clear (RWC) alerting and guidance
🔸Performance requirements for RWC
🔸Harmonisation with established ICAO risk ratios and loss of well-clear ratios
The document is the first revision of the original Certification Management Team (CMT) Strategy signed in 2015 and agreed upon in 2016, which outlined 4 strategic focus areas:
🔸Partnership leveraging
🔸Continued confidence building
🔸Global leadership
🔸Certification policy alignment
The strategy resulted in CMT authorities implementing the following objectives:
1. Reciprocal Acceptance of Certificates and Approvals
2. Streamlined Validation of Certificates and Approvals
3. Validation Work-Plan
The revision focuses on the growing challenges such as the new regulatory environments, emerging technologies, environmental sustainability and defining a set of strategic objectives for the CMT for the upcoming 5 years.
The handbook contains recommendations, lessons learned, best practices and conclusions on the process of implementing the initial U-space.
The document was created in collaboration with numerous stakeholders and is intended as a resource service based on the information shared from the contributions gathered from the participants and research sources.
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