Additional Safety Assessments for Medium and High-Risk Roads

In plain language

If you plan to fly over medium or high-risk roads, you must provide CAAS with a detailed system safety assessment (like failure mode and hazard analyses) and technical evidence proving your drone is airworthy and safe.

Requirement as structured

CAAS requires applicants planning operations over medium and high-risk road categories to provide a system safety assessment (including FHA, FMECA, and FTA) and supporting evidence of the UAS's airworthiness and risk mitigation measures.

Original regulatory text

Specific to medium and high risk road categories, In addition to the above-mentioned information, the applicant is to provide: (1) System safety assessment which includes the following but not limited to: (i) Functional Hazard Analysis (FHA) (ii) Failure Mode Effect and Criticality assessment (FMECA) (iii) Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) (2) Evidence of meeting requirements listed in Table 1. Substantiations provided should be supported by evidence as attestation of the UAS’ airworthiness and adequacy of the risk mitigation measures.

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