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New RPAS regulations go live

21st January 2015 - 15:30 GMT | by The Shephard News Team

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The UK's new regulations for Remotely Piloted Air Systems (RPAS) went live on 19 January, according to the Ministry of Defence.

The Military Aviation Authority (MAA) published these new regulations, marking the end of a 15-month review by an MAA multi-disciplinary team formed from staff across all areas of the MAA as well as members from the defence equipment and support airworthiness and unmanned air systems teams.

The new RPAS regulations introduce a classification system where RPAS are categorised according to criteria, including their size, how they are operated and what risk to life they potentially pose to people on the ground. The category an RPAS receives will determine the level of regulation it will have to meet, ranging from full compliance for the largest RPAS presenting the greatest risk to life down to no regulation for the smallest.

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