An update on Eyeup’s most popular blog of 2023 How to update your Operations Manual 2024! This blog takes time to write and time to keep updated. So here’s the deal. Use the blog to update your manual, remember the work I’ve put in and see your way to buying me a coffee…
Close to gaslighting – Part 1 The UK CAA, as a regulator has a clear position of power over the community it seeks to regulate. This power is probably strongest over the lower echelons of the unmanned aircraft sector, dominated by micro-companies. Please note the title of this article. I’m not accusing the UK airspace…
Oversight report of CAP 722H version 2 Edit: 14/11/2023 – Oversight report updated . Additional observation. I’ll start this article with a health warning. Reading it is not for the faint-hearted, particularly if you click on the link to the actual oversight report. The report is necessarily technical in nature and is intended to alert…
Your Operations Manual made easy…and fully compliant! It’s true. After endless requests, Graham Degg, Eyeup’s founder, has created a CAP 722A and 722H compliant operations manual solution for all PDRA01 Operational Authorisation holders. Making life easier Many operator’s struggle with the annual operations manual update process. 2023 has been a particularly tough year due to…
If this article whets your appetite to know more about the fundamental document that controls your Specific Category flying under a PDRA01 OA…then you may wish to join us on Geeksvana. We will be going live on Monday 30th October but the recording will be available to members after the live event. We will be…
The more I network… Here is a story I’ve told before but I’ll tell it again. When I first started Eyeup Aerial Solutions I took advice from a number of people, both professionals and trusted friends (and some who fit into both categories). One piece of advice I got was to avoid getting involved…
What is going on with the Drone Code? The Drone and Model Aircraft Code ( popularly known as the Drone Code) appears to be wrong. This raises a few questions. First of all, have I somehow misinterpreted the code and found an error where none exists? I’d be happy for anybody to pick apart the…
Paper Lanterns… What have paper lanterns got to do with improving the speed of publication of correct and high-quality documents by the CAA? This question is triggered by the fact that after three months from the initial issue at the beginning of March, we are still without a useable version of CAP722H, the snappily named…
An update on Eyeup’s most popular blog of 2022 How to update your Operations Manual 2023! Edits 24/12/2023 Type “bear” to “bare” 30/09/2023 Add links to Eyeup PDRA01 Gateway form 23/09/2023 Typo corrected in EP example. 18/09/2023 Section 3, Compliance Statement changed. 31/08/2023: Amended section numbering and added link to Osprey Drone Training video.…