1. - RPAS -
INTRODUCTION TO PANEL SESSION
ALIAS Conference, 1-2 October 2014, Florence, Italy
Michael Standar
Chief Strategies & International Relations

2. What are Unmanned Aircraft?
• DRONES?
• UAV?
• Unmanned aircraft systems
• Autonomous aircraft
• ???????????????
• NO!!! They are called Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems
(RRPPAASS)) and they are a subset of UUAASS!
• Remote pilot station or ground station
• Data link
• Remote piloted aircraft
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3. D-D-D
• Dull
• Dangerous
• Dirty
• Business case
• Able to fly longer
• Closer to obstacles
• Hazardous conditions
• Benefits to society
• Benefits to manned aviation
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4. RPAS ARE AIRCRAFT
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5. Why can’t they fly together with manned aircraft
yet?
• Three simple principles:
– Not negatively impact manned operations
– Be transparent to other airspace users and ATC
– As safe as manned aviation
• Adapt to the current and future ATM and Aviation
environment!
• Three simple principles – However, the regulatory
and technical challenges are not that simple
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RPAS what is your perception?

7. EUROPEAN AVIATION SYSTEM
• Conservative
• Lead in time at least 5 years
• RPAS integration driven by innovation and business
needs
– Sensors – ”payload”
• RPAS just another airspace user
• <150 kg State specific (for now)
Civil and military have same integration obstacles
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8. TTHHEEYY AALLLL WWAANNTT
AAIIRRSSPPAACCEE AACCCCEESSSS
Paving the way toward RPAS
integration
Or societal benefits?
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9. MAIN OBJECTIVE
Safe integration of civil and mil RPAS operations into
the European aviation and ATM system from 2016
– Phased integration (scalability)
– Non-segregated ATM environments
– SESAR COMPLIANT – Integrated into the
European ATM Master Plan
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10. GENERIC INTEGRATION CHALLENGES (1)
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11. GENERIC INTEGRATION CHALLENGES (2)
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• DATA LINK
requirements
• SPECTRUM

12. GENERIC INTEGRATION CHALLENGES (3)
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SEE & AVOID
Rules of the AIR

13. R&D GAP ANALYSIS
Identification of gaps in technology or procedures led
to the following topics:
• Detect & Avoid
• Human factors
• C2 (Command & Control)
• Contingency – e.g loss of link, …
• Security
• SESAR compliance
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14. What is the state of play
• 15 countries have regulation (not harmonised)
– 6 allow operations under strict conditions
• 2200+ civil approved commercial companies and growing
• Most operators and manufacturers have no aviation back
ground or ATM knowledge
• Economic potential estimated at several billions before end
2020
• Pragmatic European approach………
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15. – Regulatory
– R&D
– Complementary measures
• European RPAS European Aviation System
integration roadmap
• Call for RPAS Demos and trials from SJU linked to
ATM master plan
• European Roadmap was launched 20 June Paris
Airshow
Paving the way toward RPAS
integration
EUROPEAN APPROACH
• 5 workshops across interest groups
• European Comission Staff working paper
• Development of 3 roadmaps
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TYPES OF OPERATIONS
Instrument Flight Rules (IFR)
Visual Flight Rules (VFR)
500 ft--------------------------------------------------- 500 ft
Very Low Level Operations
• Visual Line of sight (VLOS)
• Extended- Visual line of sight (E-VLOS)
• Beyond visual line of sight (B-VLOS)

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IMPACT OF RPAS ON ATM BELOW 500 ft (1)
• ANSP
• Responsibility for FIR
• Flight planning?
• Airspace users
• Rules of the air
• Detectability
• CTR
• Separation between IFR/VFR and RPAS ( non IFR/VFR)
• Traditional products
• NOTAMS
• MET
• Terrain and obstacle data

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IMPACT OF RPAS ON ATM BELOW 500 ft (2)
• Transition
• Into area below 500ft
• Out of area below 500ft
• Infrastructure
• SUR Tracking capability (if required)
• Spectrum availability
• Contingency
• Impact on GPS outage (B-VLOS)
• Loss link
• Security
• Physical
• cyber

19. RPAS R&D ATM INTEGRATION PERSPECTIVE
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R&D
Objectives
VLOS Small R&D effort
E-VLOS
B-VLOS
IFR/VFR
OOPPEERRAATTIIOONNSS BBAASSEEDD AAPPPPRROOAACCHH
Small R&D effort
Large R&D effort
Large R&D effort

20. European Roadmap – ICAO GANP/ASBU´s
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21. • Definition phase started – in progress – involvement of
stakeholders/partners
• Descriptions of work to be incorporated into the SESAR
2020 Programme covering all ”pipeline phases”
• Input to the ATM Master Plan Roadmaps of
technologies
– Content view
– Business view
– ICAO Global Plan ASBU alignment/support
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SESAR 2020 – RPAS Integration

22. Global Cooperation & Interoperability
EC/FAA Coordination
Standards built on
SESAR and NextGen
developments will
support harmonised
Implementation and
Regulation
Programme level
coordination enhanced
by interoperability and
wider industry buy-in.
Global consensus to
ensure world-wide
interoperability.
EU-US MoC
SESAR-NextGen
Coordination Activities
EUROCAE WG
RTCA SC
ICAO GANP/ASBU
´s
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23. Conclusion
•New airspace user
•Driven by innovation and business needs – roles &
reponsibilities, liabilities
•The European Roadmap and current practices will be
the baseline for the integration to be successful and
described in the European ATM Master Plan
•New issues to be solved - proposes
opportunities/constraints to aviation
•Automation is key and need to be balanced to keep
the human-in-the-loop – system resiliance
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24. Thanks for your attention
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