FlightPower
Veteran
Location: Herts UK
| Thanks Rich,
Just one last thing, here's what happens to your next Real Estate shoot if you let this opportunity slip:
UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE (UAV)
REMOTELY OPERATED AIRCRAFT (ROA) CHECKLIST
1. Complete FAA Form 7711-2, Application for Certificate of Waiver or Authorization. On the form, complete sections 1-3, 5-7, and 15. Leave section 4 blank, technically there are no CFR’s that explicitly pertain to UAV/ROA’s. Submit the form to myself at the following mailing address: FAA, Southern Region, ATTN: ASO-520.10, P.O. Box 20636, Atlanta, GA 30320.
(NOTE: Any authorization issued constitutes relief from the specific regulations stated on the Certificate of Waiver or Authorization, to the degree and period of time specified in the certificate and does not waive any state law or local ordinance. Should the proposed operations conflict with any state law or local ordinance, or require permission of local authorities or property owners, it is the applicant’s responsibility to resolve the matter.)
2. Along with FAA Form 7711-2, include the information listed in items 3-19. In some instances a statement would suffice.
3. Include a detailed description of the intended flight operations, including the following for each route:
a. Departure Point
b. Track across the ground (coordinates, Fix/Radial/Distances or waypoints)
c. Altitudes to be flown in sequence of events
d. Proposed Departure Time and event window
e. Proposed Arrival Time and event window
f. Emergency/contingency routings/destinations
4. UAV/ROA physical characteristics, including configuration, length, wingspan, gross weight, method of propulsion, fuel capacity, color, lighting (UAV must be equipped with standard aircraft position lights and High Intensity Strobes IAW 14 CFR 23.1401 and operating during all phases of flight), etc.
5. Flight performance characteristics (Top speed, cruise speed, maximum altitude, rate of climb in the various regimes, range/endurance, means of recovery, etc.).
6. Method of pilotage and proposed method to avoid other air traffic. NOTE: You must provide an equivalent level of safety to “see & avoid”. (May be radar observation, forward and/or side-looking cameras, electronic detection systems, visual observation from one or more ground sites, patrol or chase aircraft- or a combination. Also indicate whether the Command and Control Operator (CCO) will be physically present during all phases of the UAV/ROA’s flight and if they hold at least a current FAA instrument pilot rating or its military equivalent.)
7. Coordination procedures with ATC.
8. Communication procedures with ATC.
9. Lost data link/mission abort procedures, ground tracks, altitudes and criteria for activation of each procedure.
10. Statement from manufacturer that the UAV/ROA is in a condition for safe flight.
11. Means to safely terminate flight in the various locations, flight regimes and under differing contingencies.
12. Specific and defined procedures for mission abort during takeoff, enroute and rejected landings.
13. Specific flight termination procedures.
14. UAV must be equipped with an altitude encoding transponder (IAW 14 CFR 91.215).
a. Set on a code assigned by ATC.
b. Unless a specific special-use code is authorized by FAA, the UAV/ROA Pilot-in-Command (PIC) shall have the capability to reset the code and activate the Ident feature while airborne.
c. UAV/ROA shall have the capability to automatically reset Transponder to 7600 if loss of VHF/UHF ATC coordination and communications is experienced.
d. UAV/ROA shall have the capability to automatically reset Transponder to 7700 if loss of data link and or navigational capability is experienced.
e. If Transponder fails during flight, Region/ATC Facility may, at their discretion, cancel/recall the mission.
15. Instantaneous direct and/or relay through aircraft 2-way communication with all affected ATC facilities are required.
16. Compliance with all ATC clearances is mandatory. (The UAV/ROA Operator shall comply with all Air Traffic Control (ATC) clearances and instructions.)
17. Proponent and/or its representatives shall be responsible at all times for all collision avoidance maneuvers with nonparticipating aircraft and the safety of persons or property on the surface.
18. Proponent shall be responsible for issuance of appropriate NOTAM(s) for each flight. (I’ll provide you with the recommended verbiage and process.)
All activities shall be conducted in Visual Meteorological Conditions. (UAV/ROA operations shall not be conducted at any altitude where there are clouds or obscuring phenomena of more than five-tenths coverage and not less than 500 feet from the base of any cloud. Or the simpler version of UAV/ROA operations shall be conducted in VFR conditions. )
Scared yet? You should be.
Julian |
