Operational Requirements for Medium-Risk Road Crossings

In plain language

For roads in school or silver zones, or roads with speed limits of 50 km/h (or under 50 km/h with more than 2 lanes), CAAS requires you to prove your drone's failure rate is under 1 in 10,000 hours and have a recovery plan if it falls.

Requirement as structured

CAAS states that operators conducting VLOS flights over medium-risk roads must ensure the UAS has a catastrophic failure probability of no more than 1x10^-4 per flight hour and establish specific recovery and operational procedures.

Original regulatory text

Medium Risk Road • Roads within silver zones or school zones; • Speed Limit of less than 50 km/h but more than 2 lanes; or • Speed Limit of 50 km/h (regardless of number of lanes) ... • The UAS should have a probability of a catastrophic failure condition that does not exceed 1x10-4 per flight hour. • To include the specific operational procedures and processes for operations over roads in the operation procedures document.

Applies when

operation

VLOS