SOR/96-433, s. 901.38.1 - section overview

In plain language

This section mandates that remotely piloted aircraft conducting BVLOS operations must be equipped with active anti-collision lights and defines the technical specifications for these lights, including color, flash rate, visibility angles, and intensity, while providing a safety-based exception.

Requirement as structured

This section mandates that remotely piloted aircraft conducting BVLOS operations must be equipped with active anti-collision lights and defines the technical specifications for these lights, including color, flash rate, visibility angles, and intensity, while providing a safety-based exception.

Original regulatory text

(1) Subject to subsection (3), no pilot shall operate a remotely piloted aircraft to conduct a BVLOS operation unless the aircraft is equipped with anti-collision lights and those lights are turned on. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), anti-collision lights shall (a) be white in colour; (b) for operations at night, be visible using night-vision goggles; (c) flash at a rate of not less than 40, and not more than 100, cycles per minute; (d) be visible in all directions within 75 degrees above and below the horizontal plane of the aircraft, with the exception of solid angles of obstructed visibility totalling not more than 0.5 steradians; and (e) have an intensity such that they are visible in all directions from a distance of not less than one mile. (3) Anti-collision lights may be turned off if the pilot determines that, because of operating conditions, doing so would be in the interests of aviation safety.

Applies when

country

Canada

operation

BVLOS

regulatory category

Specific