Pre-flight Environment and Obstacle Assessment

In plain language

Look around your flying site to identify obstacles and people. You do not need to check for uninvolved persons if flying certain lightweight or legacy drones in the A1 subcategory.

Requirement as structured

The remote pilot must observe the operating environment, check for obstacles, and check for the presence of uninvolved persons before starting the flight.

Original regulatory text

observe the operating environment, check the presence of obstacles and, unless operating in subcategory Over People (A1) with an unmanned aircraft referred to in points (5)(za), (5)(zb), (5)(a), (5)(c), or (5)(d) of point UAS.OPEN.020, check the presence of any uninvolved person;

Applies when

country

United Kingdom

operation

EU UAS operation

regulatory category

Open