Discontinuation or Safe Distance During Emergency Response

In plain language

If you see emergency services active in your flight area, you must land or leave the area immediately, unless they have explicitly given you permission to fly. If you continue flying under authorization or while clear, you must keep a safe distance so you do not interfere with or endanger their work.

Requirement as structured

EASA advises that a UAS operation should be immediately discontinued when an emergency response effort is taking place in the operational area, unless explicitly authorised, or otherwise a safe distance must be maintained to avoid interference or endangerment.

Original regulatory text

When there is an emergency response effort taking place in the operational area of a UAS, the UAS operation should be immediately discontinued unless it was explicitly authorised by the responsible emergency response services. Otherwise, a safe distance must be maintained between the UA and the emergency response site so that the UA does not interfere with, or endanger, the activities of the emergency response services.

Applies when

regulatory category

General