RPAS Regulation in France

1. Fly-n-Sense copyright May, 2014
Civil UAS activity
in France

2. • Activity: Design & manufacturing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles /
End-to-end UAV solutions provider
• Creation: 2008 / status of JEI
• Implantation: Technopole Bordeaux Technowest
(Merignac – Bordeaux airport)
• Current Team: 11 Persons including 7 engineers in R&D
• Products: VTOL and Fixed Wings certified by the French regulator (DGAC)
• Services: Training, Prof. Services, Tech. Support, Maintenance
• Markets: Security, Industry, Environment
• Network: Clusters Drones AETOS and Aerospace Valley / DGAC UAV workgoup
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PROFILE
Company profile

3. French Regulation Status

4. Story
Civil UAV regulation … the French story
• Start: 2010
• Process: workgroup … selection of experts, manufacturers, operators (limited
number)
• Schedule: 2 years discussions
• Text: first draft 2010, second text 2011 … accepted end of 2011
• Document release: legal texts in 2012
Arrêté du 11 avril 2012 relatif à l'utilisation de l'espace aérien
Arrêté du 11avril 2012 relatif à la conception des aéronefs civils
• Evolution: workgroup / 2 meetings per year
objective => 2014 amendments

5. Sum
m
ary
DGAC regulation Summary

6. Scenario
DGAC scenario

7. Regulation Evolution
• Operator license: new cursus for training theory
• Operation: extended scenario
• Reporting: better formalization and respect timing (annual report)
• Control: extend and increase the rules application (enforce UAV control rule)
• Drone certification: technical code definition /work in progress
• Promote: Professional cluster and Test range reference label

8. French references and numbers

9. FR Statistics
• Operators list: ~ 530
• Manufacturers list: ~ 30
• Professional UAV in operation for civil application : > 2000
• Activity (declared) : every day …
• Regulation enforcement: 26 investigations since sept 2013
13 ended
6 recall to the law
5 fines
4 confiscation
2 prosecutions
• Official test range : CESA

10. French delegation
• Present at: SUSB Expo and AUVSI
• Exhibitors:
manufacturers => FLY-N-SENSE, XAMEN
cluster = > AETOS
institution => Région Aquitaine, Bordeaux Technowest
test range => CESA

11. French delegation

12. CONTACT
Bordeaux Airport
25, Rue Marcel Issartier - BP 20005
33702 Merignac Cedex - FRANCE
Phone: +33 (0)5 35 54 00 97
Fax: +33 (0)9 72 23 85 52
Email: contacty@fly-n-sense.com
www.fly-n-sense.com