This event covers what regulations and standards need to be in place to ensure the safety of new aircraft in built environments and near airports. Covering how a new and novel integrated aviation system should be regulated to ensure safety looking at regulations and standards, fuels and charging and how modelling mirrors reality.
The aim of the this event is to:
Convene interested parties to enable new collaborations to form
Raise awareness of the successful applicants from Phase I
Attract non-traditional aviation companies to Future Flight
Inform on the capabilities and expertise on offer to support your Future Flight project
Future Flight is a £125m Industrial Strategy Challenge Programme seeking to demonstrate novel aviation systems to completely transform the way we move people and goods. The programme seeks to demonstration a fully integrated system in 2024 delivered by large consortia of mixed expertise.
Find out more: https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/future-flight-workshops
1. Future Flight Challenge:
Networking Event: REGULATION
Gary Cutts
Challenge Director Future Flight
Simon Masters
Deputy Challenge Director Future Flight
April 30 2020
2.
3. Future Flight and COVID-19
• Phase II will move back by one month
• Dates for Phase II will be shared via the KTN and a range of social
media platforms
4. Future Flight, an industrial strategy challenge fund, is ambitious, broad and complex
Complexity comes from both the challenges to be addressed AND the diversity of stakeholders required
5. A programme involving three phases
We are here
FFC
2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24
Concepts Development Demonstration
FFC
FFC
Emerging
capabilities
Concept development,
grand challenge refinement
and consortium building
Full development of
multiple, competing aviation
system concepts
Realisation and
demonstration of aviation
systems with real use cases
for 3 vehicles classes
Fully integrated
demonstration of multiple
vehicle classes in live
airspace
UKRI
Review
Gate
UKRI
Review
Gate
UKRI
Review
Gate
2019 - 2020 2020 - 2022 2022 - 2024
6. The Research Themes for Phase II are
• Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) systems.
• Both physical and digital infrastructure.
• Autonomy.
• Digital and communications systems.
• New business models.
• Public acceptance.
• Transport integration.
• Simulation.
• Non-aerospace regulation
• Viable, challenge, use cases
• Total security systems
• You may have identified something else
• You may have a programme tackling one or all of these themes
• Please submit your proposals following the criteria of the call once live
7. Underpinning capabilities that could be addressed by a consortia
• Network of test facilities
• Data infrastructure
• Digital twin of an aviation system
• Ideas in these areas must be presented by a consortia
• It must be led by a company
11. What we offer
• Research/ Development/ Consultancy with a focus on
safety/resilience/ reliability
• Internationally recognised expertise in hydrogen (both
gaseous and cryogenic) and battery technologies.
• Strong international links as part of UK Government
• 100+ scientists and engineers
12. Energy Landscape – Transport, Power, Heat
Transport
Domestic
Industrial & Commercial
13. What we do:
• Unique expertise in development/ bespoke testing/ certification
testing of aviation & energy systems
• Key role in pre-normative work and standards and regulation
development
• Testing for hydrogen gas turbine operation, liquid hydrogen
systems and large scale battery facilities.
• Support to strategic development projects, including modelling
and safety management
16. What we need
• Partners looking for our unique capabilities, flexible
large-scale facilities and broad expertise to support
advanced research and development.
• Partners working in TRL space 1 to 5 in developing new
energy/ aviation systems.
19. Target our
Interventions
Help OGDs and
industry
HSE and Data
National Population
Database
Regulatory
Knowledge
&
Data
&
Scientific/
Analytical
expertise
Enhance the
efficiency and
effectiveness of
our regulatory
approach
Improving
decision making
Better use of
existing data
Improve our
inspection strategy
and sector plans
External Focus
Internal Focus
20. Discovering Safety Programme
Discovering Safety
Improving global health and safety performance using data and analytical
techniques
£10 million, initially 5 year research programme (2018-2022) funded by
the Lloyd’s Register Foundation
www.discoveringsafety.com
21. Discovering Safety ProgrammeDiscovering Safety
Programme aims to
be sustainable –
continuing to grow
and influence the
safety landscape
Delivered by the
HSE and key
partner University
of Manchester
Focusing on where there is
scope to make the biggest
overall impact and accelerate
improvements in health and
safety
36. 14
UAS and UAV standards
• Area of emerging standardization
• BSI technical committees (ACE/)
• British Standards, ISO/IEC, ASTM with
focus on UAS and safe operations of drones
• Some focus on UAS + Drone operation
• BSI research project with ARPAS-UK
BS ISO 21384-
3:2019
Unmanned aircraft systems. Operational
procedures
2019
BS ISO 21895:2020 Categorization and classification of civil
unmanned aircraft systems
2020
BS ISO 21384-1-4 UAS. General specifications, product systems,
vocabulary
DPC
BS EN 4709-001 Aerospace series - UAS - Product requirements
and verification for the Open category
Draft
BS ISO 23665 UAS-- Training for personnel involved in UAS
operations
DPC
BS ISO 24352 Technical requirements for light and small
unmanned aircraft electric energy system
Draft
BS ISO/IEC 22460
SERIES
ISO license and drone identity module for
drone (Ultra-Light Vehicle or UAS)
P
ISO Test methods for civil multi-rotor unmanned
aircraft system
P
ISO Fuel Cell Power Systems for unmanned aircraft
systems - Performance test methods
P
ISO UAS traffic management (UTM) DPC
https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/
37. 15
BSI Drones/UAS research
To investigate emergent standards environment:
• Duplication, where different
industries/organizations may be pursuing
standards with similar scope
• Gaps in the standards landscape – UK
leadership opportunities?
• Barriers to adoption (of standards)
• Early observations…
• Lack of key standard definitions such as “safety
critical” vs “safety related” and UTM
• Many confuse regulation and standards
• Increased awareness needed of emerging
standards landscape (aviation, common, sector)
• More internationally than UK
• EASA regulations create uncertainty
• Areas for ‘good practice’ to support and
accelerate drone operation and use
46. What do consortia want to know?
• What is the law and regulation we need to integrate
with?
– Existing law and regulation will need to change
– (Ideally) Cross-cutting work to work out how
• How does our technology need to be shaped to comply?
– This will require judgment, not just box-ticking
– Needs of developing technology also need to shape the new law
and regulation
FEEDBACK
47. Legal and regulatory framework
• Aviation-specific
– Standards and certification, operational regulation, air traffic integration
• Liability and insurance
– How is liability allocated between the various actors?
– Will the insurance market cover these liabilities?
• Other law and regulation
– Planning, environmental etc
• Mainly locality-specific
– Data protection
• Information relating to individuals will be captured, eg person X flew from A to B
48. Aviation-specific law and regulation
• Primarily a CAA activity
– But would benefit from input from external experts
– And feedback from consortia on their technologies
• Standards and certification
– Aircraft and infrastructure
• Operational regulation
• Integration with other air traffic
– A particular problem for autonomous systems
• Need to interoperate with foreign aircraft
49. Liability
• Existing schemes of liability won’t be appropriate for autonomous
aircraft
– Strict (no-fault) liability to those on the ground (section 76 Civil
Aviation Act 1982) still works
– Other liabilities primarily via tort of negligence
• Based on human foresight of risk and measures taken
• Linking autonomous decision-making to preceding human decision-making
– Design, training, testing, revision
• Responsibility may be hard to identify and allocate (and thus expensive to
litigate)
– Should we have an aviation-specific liability regime?
50. Insurance
• Will the insurance sector cover unquantifiable risks?
– Probably no!
• Thus a need for technology producers to satisfy the sector
that the risks are understandable enough
– Better to do this in advance!
• Attitudes and needs of the sector ought to be identified and
included in any aviation-specific liability regime
51. What might consortia need?
• Understanding of law and regulation as applied to their
technologies
– Both existing and developing
– Plus liability allocation between consortium members
• Help in achieving compliance
• Help in providing feedback for developing law and regulation
• Communication at development stage with the insurance
sector
52. Opening up airspace for drone use by connecting drone pilots to landowners
30th April 2020: ISCF Future Flight Networking Event (Regulation): Final
The Importance of Landowner Consultation in achieving our Future Flight Ambitions
58. There are 170,000 recreational
drone pilots all wondering where
they can legally fly their drone…..
There are 10,000 Enterprise Drone Companies wanting
to obtain access to low-level airspace to deliver new
drone use cases to grow the UK economy.
There are a group of large strategic landowners (owning 80% of the land in
the UK together) who have rights to low-level airspace above their land but
don’t know how to communicate their drone policy to the drone industry.
Meanwhile
in the UK
59. Drone users need landowner permission to take
off, land and to overfly property at low
altitude….but they find it difficult to find out
who owns land and agree the terms of access.
On the other hand….
Landowners are concerned about drones flying from, and
over their land without their permission, but they rarely
communicate and publicise their drone policy to the drone
community
How to Navigate
Landowner
Consultation
At DronePrep the premis behind our platform is a very simple one.
60. Public
Perception
This disconnect creates bad drone user practices, fear, mistrust
and misunderstanding between each group and results in
negative public perception of drones which undermines the
development of the industry.
At DronePrep we are collaborating with HM Land Registry,
Ordnance Survey, Registrars of Scotland and many others to
open up low-level airspace for responsible drone use in the UK
by connecting drone pilots with landowners to unlock new
locations and possibilities for drone use.
61. The DronePrep Platform
DronePrep allows drone users to search any location
in the UK so that they can enquire directly with a
landowner about the conditions of flight.
In addition, we allow landowners to share their
policy on drone access. This can range from all are
welcome to a complete ban; the middle ground is a
graduated permission for drone access depending on
factors such as location, time, insurance and
professional experience.
Our mission is to inform the drone industry and
recreational pilots (a group of 180,000+ flyers)
where they can and can’t fly and to allow
engagement between landowners and the drone
community to open up opportunities for both
groups.
The
Solution
62. Search for any landowner, get permission,
and find places to fly your drone responsibly
Communicate your drone access policy to the drone
community and access a network of responsible flyers
63. We want to help
enable the
industry and
collaborate
Gareth Whatmore (Founder)
Twitter @GLWhatmore / DronePrepUK
Email gareth@droneprep.uk