Detect and Avoid Procedures in Flight Manual

In plain language

You must document your procedures for maintaining safe separation and avoiding obstacles in the Flight Manual, ensuring you account for the time it takes for the pilot to detect an obstacle, make a decision, and command the drone.

Requirement as structured

CAAS states that operators must specify procedures to effectively handle separation provisions and Detect and Avoid (DAA) in the Flight Manual, taking into account pilot transmission and decision times.

Original regulatory text

The operator should specify procedures to effectively handle separation provisions and DAA in the Flight Manual. If the UA pilot’s intervention (to avoid all known static obstacles) is required, procedures should take into consideration transmission and decision time needed from the point of initial detection, to effectively maintain minimum separation between the obstacle and the UA.

Applies when

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