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Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

JARUSPerspective on the RPAS Roadmap

Ron van de Leijgraaf

Chairman

Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

• What is JARUS?

• Who participates in JARUS?

• JARUS focus

• Working Group structure

• Interface with other groups

• Status of JARUS activities

• JARUS activities in RPAS Roadmap

• Future JARUS activities

• Final remarks

June 26, 2013 RPAS 2013 2

Overview

Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

• JARUS is the Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

• The group aims at proposing harmonised regulation to cover all aspects of UAS operations

– Operational

– Personnel

– Technical

– Organizations

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What is JARUS?

Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

• Australia

• Austria

• Belgium

• Brazil

• Canada

• Czech

Republic

• Colombia

• Denmark

• EASA

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Who participates in JARUS?

• Eurocontrol

• Finland

• Germany

• Great Britain

• Greece

• France

• Ireland

• Israel

• Italy

• Malta

• Netherlands

• Norway

• Russia

• South Africa

• Spain

• Switzerland

• United States

of America

Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

• Develop proposals for all aspects of UAS regulation.

– From the Terms of Reference:

JARUS purpose is to recommend a single set of technical,

safety and operational requirements for the certification and

safe integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into

airspace and at aerodromes

• JARUS intends to contribute to other rulemaking efforts

(regional and worldwide)

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JARUS focus

Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

• Operational and Personnel Requirements Group

(OPS/Personnel)

• Organizations Approval Group (ORG)

• Airworthiness Group (AW)

• Detect and Avoid Group (DA)

• Command, Control and Communication Group (C3)

• UAS System Safety Group (AMC UAS.1309)

• Airworthiness process (‘part 21’)

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Working Group structure

Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

• The JARUS group clearly intends to cooperate and

contribute to other groups, not to compete with them

• Material developed by JARUS will be provided for

consultation with stakeholders through a specific JARUS

consultation scheme

• JARUS agreed to act as an authorities contact point for

EUROCAE WG 73/93

– For issues within and outside of the Terms of Reference

of JARUS

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Interface with other groups

Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

• JARUS has committed to contribute to the European RPAS

Steering Group process and roadmaps

• Comments from the RPAS sector on the Certification

Specification for a Light Rotorcraft UAS (CS-LURS) are

being addressed

• A new working group to address the airworthiness process

(‘part 21’) has been created

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Status of JARUS activities

Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

– Remote pilot licence (2013)

– RPAS operator (2013)

– CS-LURS (2013)

– Draft Safety objectives (2013)

– Target level of safety D&A (2013)

– Target level of safety C2 (2013)

– VLOS operations, incl. C2 (2014)

– CS-LUAS (2014)

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JARUS activities in RPAS Roadmap

– Process for airworthiness approvals

(2014)

– Approved Training Organisation (2014)

– Design and Production Organisations

(2014)

– Equipment for BVLOS/VLL (2014)

– RPAS Observers (2015)

– Extended VLOS operations, incl. C2

(2015)

Develop harmonised requirements for:

Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

• The group has started to work on the activities of

the 7 working groups

• Draft safety objectives (‘1309’) will be available this

summer

• A new organisational form for the group is implemented

– More regional oriented parts of the group

• A consultation method with stakeholders is being developed

• European region of JARUS is committed to the European

RPAS Steering Group roadmap development

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Future JARUS activities

Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

• JARUS is open for other civil authorities to participate

• Full and active support for this work by Eurocontrol and

EASA

• All regulatory material will be publicly available and open

for consultation (www.jarus-rpas.org)

• Looking into regional organisation of activities

• Group of authorities also supports international activities by

ICAO, EUROCAE and RTCA

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Final remarks

Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems

June 26, 2013 RPAS 2013 12

Questions?