On the second day of UVS International’s RPAS 2012 Conference in Paris on June 5 – 7, Claude Mas, of the Direction Générale de l’aviation civile (DGAC) (National Aviation Authority), France, will present a paper on the new “French Regulatory Situation for Civil RPAS”.
Claude Mas graduated from an aeronautics engineering school. He has more than twenty years of experience in the aeronautic field, including seven years in the area of certification or qualification of software for civil or military applications, five years of certification of large aircraft, five years assigned in an international cooperation office on a military program. He is currently working in the rulemaking unit of the civil aviation safety directorate, in charge of airworthiness aspects either under national responsibility, or under interface with the rulemaking process of the European Aviation Safety Agency.
ABSTRACT
The DGAC presentation aims at explaining the regulatory context of remotely piloted aircraft in France. In the civil area, unmanned aircraft were historically model aircraft. This is a leisure activity that is practised in dedicated places with a controlled environment in order to avoid injuries to people. A wide range of ideas is rising with use of remotely piloted aircraft for aerial work purposes, most of times commercially. This is a completely new situation different from flying model aircraft. The DGAC has just issued a new regulation that deals with these new activities and develops the requirements in the areas of airworthiness, pilots’ skills, operators’ responsibility, and airspace usage (published in the “Journal official de la République française” on 10 May 2012). The presentation will focus on this regulation’s objectives, its applicability and will explain how to prepare for the future of more complex RPA operations.
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