Flightglobal:- MAA prepares update to unmanned operations guidelines
The UK’s Military Aviation Authority is preparing the release of an updated version of its regulations on unmanned air vehicles, which will draw on feedback from a first document that was released last January.
Following the UK’s drawdown from Afghanistan – a theatre in which UAVs were operated in segregated military airspace and often procured under urgent operational requirement deals – the Ministry of Defence saw a requirement for future operations to allow for remotely-piloted air systems (RPAS) to be flown in non-segregated airspace. It introduced the new specific regulations as a result.
“We saw that there would be a proliferation of RPAS in the military sphere,” an MAA representative told a Royal Navy conference in September. “There was a requirement for regulations to cover RPAS-specific issues.”
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