Oversight report of CAP 722H version 3 Apology This time, the blog starts with a heartfelt apology. I’m really sorry to anybody in the UK CAA who feels my blogs are somehow unfair. It is not my aim to upset anybody. However, as part of the “regulated community”, I do feel I have every right…
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…
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…
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.…
Oversight Report of CAP 722H Specific Category Operations: Pre-defined Risk Assessment Requirements, Guidance & Policy Humans are amazing. The 9 months gestation period we have, compared to our size is considered pretty long. Long gestation is more common as you move up the intelligence scale and also as an animal gets larger. Elephants…
Don’t Lose Control A review of the AAIB Alauda Airspeeder incident report of February 2021. This piece first appeared in the April 2021 issue of Drone User Magazine (UK). It is reproduced here now to help new drone users to understand that a number of small issues can add up to an eventual failure. It…
Emergency…”UAV FAIL”! Do your emergency procedures make any sense in the real world? This is a blog aimed fairly and squarely at those UAS operators working against an operations manual. This usually means that you hold a GVC (or legacy NQE recommendation) and have therefore gone through some groundschool training either face to face or…
DJI Mavic 3 launch. Why shouldn’t we worry about the lack of a “C” mark? Update. As of 18th August 2022, The Mavic 3 has achieved the first C1 marking for use in the European Economic Area only (so no UK C1 mark at the moment). However, see my predictive blog here! DJI’s…
White Labelling. How to approach it and how to make it successful. White Labelling: What the hell is that then? The drone industry in the UK is made up of a LOT of sole traders and one-man companies. There are also a few bigger companies whose business model is to advertise for large contracts involving…