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18 12, 2020

The New Drone Rules Explained

By DSR Journalist|December 18th, 2020|Categories: News |Tags: .registering your drone CAA CAA Drone Registration civil aviation authority Drone drone law insured laws safe trained |Comments Off on The New Drone Rules Explained

The New Drone Rules ExplainedFrom 31 December 2020, the new rules and regulations surrounding the safe flying of drones will be the same in the UK and all European Union Member States.Looking for work? New A2CofC membership plan link hereThe first and most common misconception is that these new rules will apply to flying indoors and when flying a toy drone. This is not the case, although the drone must have been sold as, and clearly look like, a toy.The rules WILL, however, be relevant to the risk of the flight – where you fly, proximity to other people and the size and weight of y [...]

3 11, 2020

Drone Safe Register™ is 5 years old!

By DSR Journalist|November 3rd, 2020|Categories: Aerial Filming Aerial Photography Aerial Video and Filming Articles CAA DJI Dragons Den Drone Safe Store EASA Featured General Hobbyist Inspections & Surveys Insurance Members News Newsletter-Articles Promotions Property Stock |Tags: aerial photography birthday CAA data collection drone news drone operators drone safe register insured professionals safe trained trusted |Comments Off on Drone Safe Register™ is 5 years old!

Drone Safe Register™ Turns 5!The Drone Safe team have worked tirelessly over the past 5 years to structure and establish a network of safe, trained and insured professionals, something we are very proud of.As a result of this hard work, thousands of people are now using our professional network of drone operators, hundreds of members are making their mark in the drone industry and we remain the nations most trusted platform for commercial drone operators.Not only does our platform provide a number of working opportunities for our registered members, but a safe and secure community [...]

19 05, 2020

New To Drones? Have You Registered?

By DSR Journalist|May 19th, 2020|Categories: News |Tags: CAA CAA Drone Registration CAA law Operator ID |Comments Off on New To Drones? Have You Registered?

New Drone users are unaware of current drone lawThe Coronavirus pandemic has been a challenging time for everyone. As well as the obvious concerns about health and wellbeing the lockdown has caused financial worries and general anxiety about how long the situation will continue and what life might be like in years to come.The vast majority of the UK population have followed government advice by only traveling when necessary and only going out for daily exercise or essential shopping. Unfortunately, there are a minority of people who flout the rules and in extreme cases exploit the si [...]

19 02, 2020

UK Drone Law Changes 2020 – New Dawn or Disaster?

By DSR Journalist|February 19th, 2020|Categories: CAA |Tags: CAA Confusing drone law EASA enforcement police |Comments Off on UK Drone Law Changes 2020 – New Dawn or Disaster?

2020 Changes in UK Drone Law It all seemed so simple in the ‘good old days’ of drone flying in the UK.We are crowdfunding! You can Check out the pitch hereSpecial offer – A2CofC training for just £129If you wanted to use a drone for business or to make money with it in some way you had to obtain a ‘PfCO’ from the CAA. The rules may have felt restrictive to some, but at least they were simple to understand and actually worked quite well.As July 2020 looms closer, (Now delayed due to Coronavirus) UK drone laws are about to change. At Drone Safe Register™ we recognise that [...]

4 10, 2019

UK Drone Registration and New Regulations

By DSR Journalist|October 4th, 2019|Categories: News |Tags: BMFA CAA drone safe register Drone Sticker Dronesafe How To Register My Drone new New Regulations Register My Drone UK Drone Registration |Comments Off on UK Drone Registration and New Regulations

Drone Registration can be a controversial subjectSafe and legal use of drones in the UK is at the core of Drone Safe Register, so we support every reasonable step towards this. Drone registration can be a controversial subject, but if managed properly it will help raise safety standards and educate hobbyists. The fact that someone with no technical knowledge of drones and no understanding of the basics of safe and legal flying can walk into a shop and buy one concerns us. Our members operate to strict health and safety standards and work with the relevant authorities to ensure p [...]

20 09, 2019

No change in how unconfirmed drone near misses reported

By DSR Journalist|September 20th, 2019|Categories: News Members |Tags: Adam Lisberg Adrian Westwood Airprox Aleks Kowalski Andrew Hamilton CAA Mark Dale Phil Binks Steve Forward The AirProx Stakeholder Engagement Meeting UK Airspace |Comments Off on No change in how unconfirmed drone near misses reported

The way unconfirmed drone v manned aircraft near misses are reported and logged will not change anytime soon, was the message delegates heard at a top-table meeting held in London yesterday (Thursday 19/09) The AirProx Stakeholder Engagement Meeting at the Royal Aeronautical Society was organised by the Association of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (ARPAS) and was attended by representatives from across the UAV industry, including Adrian Westwood from Drone Safe Register. The delegates were addressed by Andrew Hamilton, UAS Sector Lead at the CAA; Aleks Kowalski, a commercial airl [...]

5 09, 2019

Will Drone Deliveries Ever Take Off?

By DSR Journalist|September 5th, 2019|Categories: News |Tags: amazon amazon prime CAA drone deliveries Drone Delivery nats Swiss Drone Delivery |Comments Off on Will Drone Deliveries Ever Take Off?

Drone DeliveriesHome deliveries have skyrocketed in recent years. Fuelled by online shopping, the collapse of the high street and our increasingly busy lives, we now have everything from clothes to groceries delivered on a daily basis. A study by analysts Mintel claims that 49% of UK consumers did their grocery shopping online in 2018. But is there really a need for deliveries by drone, and what could this mean for the wider drone industry?The general public have a growing expectation that unmanned aircraft will be delivering their pizzas and weekly shopping in the near future. Drone [...]

15 07, 2019

Understanding EASA Drone Regulations – Categories and Classes – Part 2

By DSR Journalist|July 15th, 2019|Categories: CAA EASA Featured |Tags: CAA CE Certified Category EASA Kite Mark Open Category Specific Category |Comments Off on Understanding EASA Drone Regulations – Categories and Classes – Part 2

Understanding EASA Drone RegulationsCategories and Classes – Part 2 EASA regulations have been developed to allow free circulation of drones within Europe and apply clear and comprehensive safety standards to the field of unmanned aerial systems. They become applicable in the UK on July 1st 2020. This blog series looks at separate aspects of the upcoming changes. In this post, we’re going to take a look at the new categories for drone operation and classes of drone. There will be three categories of drone operation and they relate to the level of risk involved in carrying out t [...]

13 07, 2019

Understanding EASA Drone Regulations – an Overview Part 1

By DSR Journalist|July 13th, 2019|Categories: CAA Articles EASA Featured |Tags: CAA Commission Delegated Regulations Commission Implementing Regulations EASA Regulations UAS regulations |Comments Off on Understanding EASA Drone Regulations – an Overview Part 1

Understanding EASA Drone RegulationsAn Overview – Part 1 The early part of 2019 has seen the publication of a new a set of regulations regarding drone use in Europe. Initially proposed in the Summer of 2015, the aim is to standardise UAS regulations across Europe with a wider goal of promoting the growth of the European drone industry through this simplification across contracted States. However, the regulations themselves look anything but simple so we’re going to look at different aspects over the coming weeks and months to break it all down into more manageable chunks. You [...]

8 07, 2019

The CAA Innovation Hub

By DSR Journalist|July 8th, 2019|Categories: News CAA Weddings |Tags: CAA CAA Innovation Hub Innovation Gateway Regulatory Lab Regulatory Sandbox |Comments Off on The CAA Innovation Hub

The CAA's new Innovation HubThe CAA has been established for nearly half a century and has undoubtedly seen a huge amount of changes in that time, from increased demand to changes in airspace use. With the rise in drone technology and the possibilities opened up by developments in artificial intelligence, this pace of change looks to be increasing.The next decade is likely to see radically different airspace usage. To this end, the CAA are meeting the challenge head on with the creation of their Innovation Hub.This is a dedicated workspace designed to enable innovators to bring [...]

20 06, 2019

An Amazing Professional Members Meeting at Gatwick Air Museum

By DSR Journalist|June 20th, 2019|Categories: News Articles CAA Featured |Tags: Andrew Hamilton CAA Commercial Drone Professional coverdrone drones DSR Members Meeting Echo Alfa Gatwick Gatwick Drone Gatwick Gold Commander iRed Jessops Kevin Woolsey qlaims Superintendent Justin Burtenshaw |Comments Off on An Amazing Professional Members Meeting at Gatwick Air Museum

An Incredible Agenda at the DSR Professional Members MeetingJune 19th saw Drone Safe Register bringing together industry experts along with more than one hundred of its members at Gatwick Aviation Museum for a second business meeting, building on the success of the last meeting in September 2018 Photography by Nigel Bowles at John Connor Press Associates Ltd The venue, Gatwick Air Museum, lies meters away from the end of the runway at Gatwick Airport and was deliberately chosen on this occasion for that reason. There have been significant consequences to the commercial drone services [...]

4 05, 2019

Drone Registration – 6 Questions for the CAA and Government

By DSR Journalist|May 4th, 2019|Categories: CAA Articles Featured |Tags: CAA CAA Drone Registration Consultation Drone Leisure Registration drone registration Drone Registration Fee Government Hobby Registration |Comments Off on Drone Registration – 6 Questions for the CAA and Government

CAA Drone RegistrationDSR asks 6 Questions of the CAA and Government about the incoming drone registration process and feePurchase Drone Operator ID Stickers HERELong before the December 2018 Gatwick drone incident, the Government in compliance with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), agreed to implement the EASA harmonised rules and regulations for safe drone operations. In 2018, the UK Government mandated a drone registration and education scheme in the UK to strengthen, they believe, ‘the accountability of drone users and their awareness of how to fly their drones [...]

17 04, 2019

DRONE SAFETY AT EVENTS 2019

By DSR Journalist|April 17th, 2019|Categories: News |Tags: advice CAA drone code drone pilots drone safe drone safe register flying drones legally flying drones safely nats near misses with aircraft online website safer flying safety |Comments Off on DRONE SAFETY AT EVENTS 2019

Drone Safety At Your Event As spring approaches and the UK’s weather improves soon we’ll be seeing more drones taking to the skies than ever before.Drone season is nearly upon us and this year DSR predicts that in 2019 we shall see more drones being flown at events than ever before. This is great news as the nation’s businesses embrace drone technology. There is nothing wrong with this at all, as long as the pilots flying drones at events are legal commercial pilots.Under the UK’s aviation law, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) states that anybody who is flying a [...]

8 04, 2019

Flying near Airports and Aerodromes and other ANO Amendments

By DSR Journalist|April 8th, 2019|Categories: Articles CAA Featured General |Tags: ANO ano amendment CAA changes to the drone law drone safe register drone safe register members drones and the law flight restriction zones flying a drone near an airport legal drone operators protected aerodrome safe drone operators |Comments Off on Flying near Airports and Aerodromes and other ANO Amendments

Flying near Airports and Aerodromes and other ANO AmendmentsAs drone technology has become more and more a part of everyday life, it has become increasingly clear that amendments have will continue to be required to the UK’s Air Navigation Order. The law is never finished as the saying goes and must change to reflect the circumstances and sometimes, the events, of the day. One such event that can be credited with heralding the first of two rounds of changes of SUA operators in 2019, is the shutdown of Gatwick airport in December 2018 and again at Heathrow shortly after, by u [...]

18 03, 2019

CAA Regulations – Evolution and Revolution

By DSR Journalist|March 18th, 2019|Categories: CAA Featured |Tags: ANO 2006 BVLOS CAA Drone Regulation FPV REgulation VLOS |Comments Off on CAA Regulations – Evolution and Revolution

CAA Drone RegulationsThe world of aviation is facing a brand new challenge in the form of drone operators. Although currently much of the same aviation law applies to the pilot of a drone as much as to the pilot of a jet, it has to be recognised that UAVs have their own set of challenges and requirements.At this point in the industry’s development, commercial operators will recognise that the world of SUA legislation is in a state of near constant change as the various regulators grapple with an evolving technology and how it applies to a new cohort of aviators.The Air Naviga [...]

12 03, 2019

March 13th 2019 Air Navigation Order Amendments

By DSR Journalist|March 12th, 2019|Categories: Articles CAA Featured |Tags: Air Navigation Order airspace airspace categories Amendments aviation CAA check your airspace DoT Drone governing body March 13th News online information online resource portal reporting resources uk drone law UK Drone Operators website |Comments Off on March 13th 2019 Air Navigation Order Amendments

As drone technology has become more and more a part of everyday life, it has become increasingly clear that amendments have been required to the UK’s Air Navigation Order.The law is never finished as the saying goes and must change to reflect the circumstances and sometimes, the events, of the day.One such event that can be credited with heralding the first of two rounds of changes of SUA operators in 2019, is the shutdown of Gatwick airport in December 2018 by the apparent unauthorised drone activity. Whether you feel that the amendments are a kneejerk response to an event that is [...]

28 01, 2019

Benefits of drones in Agriculture

By DSR Journalist|January 28th, 2019|Categories: Articles Agriculture Inspections & Surveys |Tags: agriculture CAA cherry picker commercial do farmers need permission to fly drones drones drones and agriculture dsr freephone number farming flying a drone hands free hectare PfCO photogrammetry precision farming |Comments Off on Benefits of drones in Agriculture

Drones in AgricultureIt’s largely agreed that the UK and Ireland have barely begun to tap into the huge potential that commercial drones have to offer.An industry still in its infancy, the business world is still investigating ways in which drones and unmanned aerial vehicles in general can make operations faster, safer and more cost efficient.One area that has been quicker to the party in leveraging ‘drone power’ is agriculture. In fact 18% of farmers are now thought to be using drones in some form to assist them with their land management. Particularly impressive [...]

14 01, 2019

What does OSC Mean?

By DSR Journalist|January 14th, 2019|Categories: General |Tags: 10m 20m 30m 50m CAA DSR OSC general nfz no fly zones Operating Safety Case OSC police drones Reduced distances |Comments Off on What does OSC Mean?

OSCIt isn’t a secret that many players in the drone industry love an acronym and, while it might mean something other pilots, we at DSR want to make hiring a drone as easy as possible so we’re always happy to bust an acronym where we can!Today, we’re looking at OSC in business practices.If you’ve been looking at hiring a drone pilot, you’re likely to have come across the term ‘Operating Safety Case‘ or ‘OSC‘. From this title, it’s not exactly clear what the meaning is so here we go with the explanation.In order to be able to operate legally on a commercial b [...]

12 01, 2019

CAA Airspace Portal – Checking for Changes

By DSR Journalist|January 12th, 2019|Categories: CAA News |Tags: airspace airspace categories aviation CAA check your airspace Drone governing body News online information online resource portal reporting resources website |Comments Off on CAA Airspace Portal – Checking for Changes

CAA Airspace PortalAirspace counts as an invisible national assetPut simply, it is defined as the part of the atmosphere controlled by a State above its territory and over the sea which it is committed to provide air navigation services.It is divided into two main categories – controlled and uncontrolled space and in the UK, the CAA is the body that’s responsible for administering the rules and regulations regarding it.Over time, obviously, the needs for the airspace change and so the airspace classes need to be amended so they can meet these requirements. These changes can [...]

24 12, 2018

The CAA Drone Awareness Study 2018

By DSR Journalist|December 24th, 2018|Categories: CAA |Tags: 2018 bad press about drones CAA CAA Drone Awareness Study drones flying drones general illegal drone operators safe drone pilots |Comments Off on The CAA Drone Awareness Study 2018

It’s easy to be misled by the news headlines into thinking that drones have nothing positive to offer the UK economy and indeed society but the CAA, as the body in charge of creating the set of rules and regulations that control their use, were keen to get behind the front pages and find out what people really thought about UAVs. So they interviewed a large number of people from members of the public through to commercial pilots to try to find out where opinion really lies and to be able to build a picture to help them shape the future of the UK Drone Industry. A recent report [...]