Required Flying Exercises and Contingency Procedures

In plain language

Your self-training must include practicing take-offs, landings, precision flying within a set area, and hovering or loitering. You must also practice emergency procedures (like return-to-home) from the manual, but only if practicing them doesn't require turning off safety features.

Requirement as structured

EASA accepts that the self-training includes take-off/launch, landing/recovery, precision maneuvers in a given airspace volume, hovering/loitering, and manufacturer-stipulated contingency procedures that do not compromise safety.

Original regulatory text

(d) The practical-skills self-training should contain at least flying exercises regarding take-off or launch and landing or recovery, precision flight manoeuvres remaining in a given airspace volume, hovering in all orientations or loitering around positions when applicable. In addition, the remote pilot should follow the contingency procedures for abnormal situations (e.g. a return-to-home function, if available), as stipulated in the user’s manual provided by the manufacturer. However, the remote pilot should only follow those contingency procedures that do not require the deactivation of the UAS functions that may reduce its safety level.

Applies when

country

European Union / EASA

operation

EU UAS operation

subcategory

A2

regulatory category

Open