One very important and often overlooked by-product of civilian use of UAS is the vexed question of insurance, which will indeed be one of the many topics at UVS International’s RPAS 2013 Conference in Brussels next week. On Tuesday afternoon, Jean Fournier, of Global Aerospace, France will deliver his presnation on “RPAS & Relevant Insurance Matters”
Aerospace insurance has always been keen to support the development of new aerospace applications. It is however in the interest of all stakeholders to promote conditions that will allow these applications to operate in a technically and legally well-defined environment. The primary goal is to ensure the safety of the existing users of the air space, and of the persons and properties on ground.
A further goal is to avoid any ban of these applications as a consequence of an accident that would evidence a possible lack of control in the operation of the aircraft. After a brief introduction to summarise how aerospace insurance works, we will recall the pre- requisites to be fulfilled, the information to be supplied and the data to be collected in order to obtain insurance for aerospace risks.
We will focus on economic aspects to relate the exposure to be transferred to the premium to be charged, and outline the importance to find an appropriate balance to create insurance policies for RPAS operators at acceptable rates. Last but not least, we will describe the split of roles between public authorities and insurers in the assessment of RPAS programmes, for what relates to the airworthiness of the aircraft, to the training of the pilots and to the safety of the operations. This presentation is intended to open the way for easy and accessible insurance for RPAS programmes.
In the early part of his professional life, he worked as Matra (now EADS) on military and space programmes. He accomplished his military duties as a research engineer at ONERA (French Aerospace Re- search Centre). Jean is a graduate engineer from the ENS d’Arts et Metiers, and holds a Master degree from the University of Stanford (CA, USA), as well as a DESS in Finance from the University Paris I – Sorbonne.
Global Aerospace has been dedicated to the aerospace industry for over 85 years and underwrites insurance on behalf of some of the world’s largest and most secure insurers and reinsurers.
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