EUROCAE Council Establishes Working Group WG-105 for UAS Rules and Regulations
The EUROCAE Council has approved the creation of a new working group, WG-105, which will be responsible for creating standards that ensure UAS operate safely in the air, regardless of the circumstances.
The WG-105 will feature six different focus teams that will work in the following areas:
• UAS traffic management, including geofencing and identification
• Command, control and communication, including security aspects
• Detect and avoid, addressing conflict management for all conditions of operation
• UAS automation, covering automatic takeoff and landing, automatic taxiing and automatic/emergency recovery
• Design and airworthiness standards
• Specific operational risk assessment
According to the EUROCAE NEWSblog, these six teams, with guidance from a steering committee, will work toward the publication of specific deliverables, with a focus and emphasis on consistency across all of them.
In order to launch the WG-105, new terms of reference were written and submitted to the Technical Advisory Committee and the EUROCAE Council. Once the terms were approved, Working Group WG-105 was approved.
The establishment of WG-105 comes one year after the European Aviation Safety Agency passed the A-NPA 2015-10, new legislation that established laws for UAS based on the type of flight and risk that is involved with that flight, instead of making laws based on the type of unmanned aircraft being flown.
