5.10 SDO 10 - Enable innovative air mobility (IAM) and drone operations
This SDO addresses the safe, secure and sustainable air mobility of passengers and cargo enabled by new-generation technologies integrated in a multimodal transportation system (Table 10). It also helps to mitigate a safety issue assessed by EASA with an elevated priority category ‘airborne conflict with an uncrewed aircraft system (SI-2014)’ (1).
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What |
Who |
Where |
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ID |
Description |
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10.1 |
Implement system support and procedures to integrate instrument flight rules (IFR) RPAS and IAM in airspaces A to C, which are required to have detect and avoid (DAA) systems that perform at least as well as TCAS II (traffic alert and collision avoidance system) and see and avoid. |
ANSP, ANSP MIL, AU, AU MIL, Drone/UAS Operator, Drone/UAS Operator, MIL |
TMA, En-route |
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10.2 |
Implement foundational (U1) and initial (U2) U-space services as established by the regulatory framework for U-space (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/664). |
USSP, CISP, Drone/UAS Operator |
Very low-level airspace |
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10.3
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Implement a common ATM–U-space interface and dynamic airspace reconfiguration service to help ATC actors in charge of airspace reconfigurations to increase safety, keeping crewed and uncrewed aircraft segregated within the designated U-space airspace. |
ANSP, ANSP MIL, AU, AU MIL, AO, AO MIL, USSP CISP, Drone/UAS Operator |
Airport, Vertiport, TMA, En-route |
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10.4 |
Implement simultaneous non-interfering (SNI) operations (e.g. parallel or convergent point-in-space (PinS) procedures) and capabilities (i.e. GNSS and the RNP navigation specification) allowing airspace users (e.g. rotorcraft, VTOL- capable aircraft, etc.) to operate to and from airports, vertiports and TMAs without conflicting with other traffic or requiring runway slots. |
ANSP, AU, AO, Vertiport Operator, Drone/UAS Operator |
Airport, Vertiport, |
Table 10: SDO 10 – Enable innovative air mobility (IAM) & drone operations
(1) EASA, European Plan for Aviation Safety (EPAS), 2024 edition.