SORA for Special Operation Approval

In plain language

If you want to fly outside standard limits (like flying at night or above 400 feet), you must submit a SORA risk assessment to the GCAA or LAA to prove your flight will be safe.

Requirement as structured

GCAA Acceptable Means of Compliance to UAEX.025(b) provides that, in order to obtain special operation approval, the operator should submit a specific operations risk assessment (SORA) to the GCAA or LAA to evaluate and authorise the operations, and should demonstrate through the SORA that the operation can be conducted with an acceptable level of safety.

Original regulatory text

in order to obtain special operation approval, the operator should submit a specific operations risk assessment (SORA) to GCAA or LAA, as the case, to evaluate and authorise the operations. Through SORA the operator should demonstrate that the operation can be conducted with an acceptable level of safety.

Applies when

operation regime

experimentation