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A professional drone operator is safe, compliant and efficient

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Compliance Life Cycle

The compliance life cycle is an essential aspect of operating a UAS safely and efficiently. It involves obtaining authorizations to fly, keeping track of flights, documents, training and incidents, and maintaining your assets.

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Obtaining your authorization

CAA-approved documents must be updated for relevant legal changes and will be audited, though updates don’t need prior approval.

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Operations

Once all documents are approved, flying can begin, but compliance must also be demonstrated in practice.

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Log and maintain

Maintaining updated logbooks, maintenance records, and training is essential alongside having proper documents and following flight procedures.

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Obtaining your authorization

To operate compliant, the CAA has to approve the mandatory documents. Once these are approved, you’re, in theory, compliant. The documents needed for this can be seen on the right.The laws and regulations change on a regular basis. This means, your documents have to be updated when necessary. Not all changes apply to your documents. Make sure to implement only what is relevant. The updated documents don’t have to be approved by the CAA, but will be checked during an audit.

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Concept of Operations (ConOps)

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Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA)

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Operational Manuals

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Emergency Response Plan

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Operational Plans

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Checklists

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Training logs

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Maintenance logs

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Compliance Life Cycle

Compliance life cycle

Operations manuals

Knowing your manuals must be your number one priority. Everything you need to know to fly compliant is in this document. It provides you with both practical and theoretical guidelines. This ranges from the way a flight has to be conducted, to the steps to be taken when an accident happens. If you obey by the manuals, you’re almost automatically in line with the laws and regulations.

Compliance life cycle

Checklists

Checklists are a great and handy tool to use. With the help of pre-, in-, and post-flight checklists, you can ensure all procedures mentioned in your manual are translated into actionable steps. In addition to normal procedures, it’s also mandatory to have abnormal and emergency procedures in place.

Besides this, checklists are also easy to share within your organization. This way, all pilots follow the same procedures during flights.

Compliance life cycle

Flight logging

Every single flight has to be logged. During these flights, different data has to be collected. Some examples of this data are:

The weather circumstances:

The date with the start and end time
The type of operations (VLOS, EVLOS, BVLOS)
Which checklists were used
If an incident occurs during a flight, this has to be logged as well
Etcetera.

All this information is saved in your logbook.

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Log and maintain

Besides getting all the necessary documents in place and taking all the necessary steps during flights, there’s a third phase: keeping your logbook, maintenance records, and training updated at all times.

Log and maintain

Logbook

Your logbook is a record of every flight you or your organization has taken. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will check the logbook to ensure its completeness and to verify that you have followed all regulations and guidelines related to unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations.

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Maintenance

It’s important to keep your assets airworthy by staying up-to-date with maintenance. Inadequate maintenance can compromise the safety of your assets, making them no longer airworthy and unfit for use in the field. Keeping up with maintenance also extends the lifespan of your equipment, saving you money in the long run.

Schedule maintenance in advance for drones, batteries, and other equipment, and make sure to keep records of all maintenance activities, including dates, details, and results.

Log and maintain

Training and currency

It’s mandatory for UAS pilots to follow yearly training to maintain and enhance knowledge and skills in operating UAS. This is important for ensuring the safety of the operations, as well as those around the UAS.

Keeping up-to-date with the latest regulations, technology, and best practices is also crucial for compliance with the rules and guidelines set by the CAA and other regulatory bodies.