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EASA’s Innovative Air Mobility Hub, the digital platform created to connect cities, regions, national authorities, the EU, operators, and manufacturers, is the host of the new Critical Area Assessment Tool (CAAT).
The public version of the tool is used to determine the “critical area” of a drone. This is essential to establish the ground risk within a SORA risk assessment, which is required to authorise drone operations in the EU.
The tool was created to support and ease the process for UAS operators in defining the complex calculation of the critical area. UAS operators can either use the default value of the critical area proposed in the SORA methodology or define a more precise critical area value to demonstrate a lower ground risk class.
The project received funding from a Contribution Agreement with the European Commission.
The NPA proposes a set of new and amended acceptable means of compliance (AMC) and guidance material (GM) associated with regulations Commission Delegated Regulations (EU) 2024/1107 and (EU) 2024/1108, and Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) 2024/1109 and (EU) 2024/1110 for the initial airworthiness requirements for UAS subject to certification and certified UAS that operate in the specific category.
The document covers new operational and mobility concepts based on innovative technologies like UAS, encouraging their acceptance and adoption by European citizens.
The new and amended AMC and GM aim to:
🔸Regulate high, uniform safety levels for UAS subject to certification and operated in the specific category
🔸Create conditions for safe UAS operations in U-space airspace
🔸Establish an efficient, proportionate and well-designed regulatory framework that promotes innovative development of innovative air mobility
🔸Provide guidance to the EU Member State authorities for UAS regulation applications
🔸Support new UAS regulatory framework implementation
🔸Help stakeholders understand the specifics of the new regulatory framework and address the differences between UAS and crewed aviation
The publication aims to increase the CAA’s transparency in their work to unlock the capability and delivery steps to enable the innovation and scalability of BVLOS operations in UK airspace. The Technical Strategy has two key pathways:
🔸BVLOS operations within Temporary Reserved Area (TRA) Sandboxes to perform Test & Evaluation capabilities to gauge information for safe operational use and integration with other airspace users
🔸After the introduction of the Atypical Air Environment Policy, limited operations supported by the Test & Evaluation activities, which will begin in 2024, will provide guidance on how these operations can be developed into routine operations by 2027
The document has 2 parts. Part 1 - Delivery, introduces the challenges, delivery model, operational capability roadmap and breakdown of the delivery strategy. Part 2 - Components expands the key action summaries from the delivery strategy and describes the major components for the integration of BVLOS in UK airspace by breaking down the UAS policy and regulatory activity and the enabling airspace activity.
The 2-day event takes place from 22-23 October, both online and in-person and is hosted in collaboration with Alliance for New Mobility Europe (AME), Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD), Drone Alliance Europe (DAE), Global UTM Association (GUTMA) and Joint European Drone Association (JEDA). The event enables all stakeholders in the IAM ecosystem to discuss technical and regulatory matters and issues related to social acceptance.
The forum is introduced by EASA’s Executive Director, Florian Guillermet and covers exchanges among authorities and industry executives on the status of the innovative air mobility, U-space regulatory framework, industry market forecasts for the upcoming years and, in collaboration with the European Commission, the implementation status of the European Drone Strategy 2.0 as well as divided workstreams and presentations.
Registration is now open and is unlimited and free of charge for online participants . Priority will be given to members of the European UAS industry associations for in-person placements; however, non-EU UAS can still register for the remaining seats. All attendants whether online or in-person, must pre-register using the tool in the link below.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, India, has released an aerodrome advisory circular on vertiport. The guidance material aims to provide guidance to all stakeholders in the area, as well as comprehensive design and operational guidance for vertiports, ensuring safe and efficient integration of unconventional VTOL/STOL aircraft into urban and rural areas.
The advisory circular (AC) covers relevant topics on vertiports such as:
🔸Coordination between ATS unit, pilot and vertiport operator
🔸Declared distanced for a VTOL/STOL capable aircraft for a vertiport
🔸Vertiport site selection
🔸Vertiport dimensions and related information
🔸Physical characteristics
🔸Essential vertiport components
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