“The root problem here is that these activities are unauthorised, and therefore by definition take place in ignorance or avoidance of the rules that have been defined for safe drone operations,” said EASA Executive Director Patrick Ky in a statement. “Our aim is to offer guidance and best practice advice to help aerodrome operators to prepare for such incidents and take the right steps when they occur”
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The manual aims to teach operators to distinguish between accidental drone sightings and those that aim to disrupt operations. To help airports and aviation operators manage the risk of drone incidents, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) published a manual at the beginning of March, named Drone Incident Management at Aerodromes. “That is not the big danger we have with drones, the big danger is what we call a flyaway where the aircraft suddenly takes into its head to fly off into the horizon, and that could easily be your airport’s controlled airspace.”ĮASA and the challenges in regulating them
“In the world of drones there are two types of reliability, the first is that the drone suddenly cuts out and falls to the floor, presenting a danger for the people underneath it. “In other words, the very thing that makes them cheap is that they tend to be a lot less complicated and reliable than their conventional aerospace counterparts,” Wright explains. So why can be drones so dangerous to aviation and the global air space? Wright explains that drones are a double-edged sword because, if on the one hand they are unlikely to bring an aeroplane down during a mid-air collision, they are also very small and hard to see for pilots.Īnother issue is that drones are now being produced in huge numbers and at very low cost, increasingly becoming a consumer grade electronic system. “And although they are a very small proportion of flyers, the thing that can cause more security and safety risks is not people who malignly try to create an attack but those who are just having an accident because insufficiently trained.” “It’s quite simply people who are careless, ‘the clueless and the careless’ so to speak. “The biggest problem for people trying to maintain safety is not necessarily criminal or terrorist actions,” explains Wright. The industry, on the other hand, was already aware of the threat drones pose to aviation. “But this was the first time that the public became aware that drones could actually bring the whole aviation system to a temporary halt.” “Up until then, people were aware of UAVs’ being a potential threat a but a very local one, such as landing in somebody’s garden,” he says.
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