RPAS operations in France From the regulation process

to the business

MARCH 2015

Muriel Preux (DGAC) Bastien Mancini (Delair Tech)

2012

From regulation to business

R&D

Each demand studied

RPAS enabled through segregation

GROWING ACTIVITY

RPAS integration

2005 2020 2015 2010

R&D

Designer/Manufacturer

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DESIGN DEFINITION Description of Elementary Modules Failure Analysis Limitations User Procedures

REGULATION Ordinance Design & Operation Ordinance Space WEBSITE

NAVIGABILITY ATTESTATION

Design Definition Limitations and Procedures

4

WIND TEMPERATURE HEIGHT RAIN GROUND CONSTRAINTS MAINTENANCE

Operator agreement

5

MAP (SPECIFIC ACTIVITY MANUAL)

Operator

DGAC

MAP

Permit to Fly

PILOTS AND CERTIFICATES UAVS THEORETICAL TRAINING AND PRACTICE OPERATIONAL PROCEDURE AND MAINTENANCE JOB DESCRIPTION

Remote pilots

Pilots and certificates

RPAS

Theoretical training and Practice

Operational procedure and maintenance

Job description

Annual activity assessment and incident report

EVERY COMPANY OPERATING RPAS HAS TO PROVIDE DGAC WITH AN ANNUAL ACTIVITY ASSESSMENT

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COMPANY

DATE & PLACE

SCENARIO

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM

CONSEQUENCES

ANALYSIS

RPAS operators also have to report every incident with safety issues (control loss, failures…)

But only 20 sent in 2014 => appropriate safety culture has to spread out in RPAS community

A usage scenario based regulation

Medias Surveillance Building monitoring

Surveillance Building & infrastructure monitoring

Medias Agriculture Building monitoring

Topography Agriculture Disaster management

VLOS BVLOS

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Civil RPAS industry in France TODAY

CIVIL RPAS FLEET OVERVIEW

Source : DGAC

42%

44%

4% 9% 1%

<2 kg2-4 kg4-10 kg10-25 kg>25 kg

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9

Design/Manufacture

68% of the

market

32%

25 manufacturers 324 manufacturers

VLOS DJI used both for professional and recreational Flying Eye 1st French (integrator)

BVLOS : ABOUT 10M€ TURNOVER 10 civil manufacturers in France Delair-Tech 1st S4 (BVLOS) since September

2012

10 designers

15 integrators

Parrot : largest French manufacturer dedicated to recreational RPAS > 80 M€ turnover in the world

VLOS and BVLOS operators

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VLOSBVLOS

64%

NUMBER OF OPERATORS

VLOSBVLOS

TURNOVER

VLOS • Very small and fragile startups created

around the RPAS • 2 RPAS per company BVLOS

• Growing sector • Pre-existing companies – merging companies • Business model : RPAS is only a tool among

the whole services offered by the company

36%

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Why companies want RPAS ?

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VLOS

BVLOS

A growing and evolving market

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10

2

4

4,5

Agriculture

Topography

Infrastructure Maintenance

Surveillance

POTENTIAL MARKET VALUE (in B€)

0%5%

10%15%20%25%30%35%40%45%50%

2014

2020

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

2013 2014 2017 2020

Annual turnover in M€ in France (professional RPAS)

Source : professional assocation

Training

More than 60 training centres

On-going and coordinated process with a safety based approach

Future: Basic operations

Complex operations: remote pilot licence required with manned aviation experience

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BVLOS operations have the greater economic development potential Regulatory evolution will be necessary to enable this development : heavier, higher, easier, integration with other airspace users Find the narrow path to improve certification keeping the costs interesting for the market R&D required A structure to foster the sector development : the national council for civil RPAS A collaborative approach between industry and Civil Aviation Authorities

Towards the future

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Thank you