Operational Requirements for High-Risk Road Crossings

In plain language

If you fly a drone over a road with a speed limit over 50 km/h, CAAS requires you to prove your drone's failure rate is extremely low (1 in a million hours) and have a clear plan to recover the drone if it falls onto the road.

Requirement as structured

CAAS states that operators conducting VLOS flights over high-risk roads with speed limits exceeding 50 km/h must ensure the UAS has a catastrophic failure probability of no more than 1x10^-6 per flight hour and establish specific recovery and operational procedures.

Original regulatory text

High Risk Road Speed Limit of more than 50 km/h • To use the most expeditious route across the road and minimise flight time over road to the extent possible. • To minimise distraction to drivers and road users. • To perform risk assessment to determine risk of operations and propose mitigation measures. • To include measures / procedures to recover the UA should it fall onto the road during operations. • The UAS should have a probability of a catastrophic failure condition that does not exceed 1x10-6 per flight hour. • To establish the specific operational procedures and processes for operations over roads in the operation procedures document.

Applies when

operation

VLOS