GLOBAL UAS OPS SURVEY
SURVEY CONCLUSIONS – 44 Pages – Only in English
Notes
Contents
Preamble
Terms & Explanations
Survey Methodology
CONCLUSIONS
Survey Respondents
Section 1 – Current Status
Section 2 – Near-Future (1-2 years)
Section 3 – Safety Risk Analysis Methods
ANNEX – 20 Reference Tables
The Global UAS OPS survey in context
Where the European surveys focused on one region, the Global UAS OPS survey took the same line of questioning worldwide. The conclusions run to forty-four pages, in English only, and follow a clear path: the methodology and terms first, then the respondent profile, then three substantive sections covering the current status of operations, the near-future outlook over the next one to two years, and the safety risk analysis methods operators rely on.
Twenty reference tables in the annex carry the underlying numbers for anyone who wants to check the working rather than take the summary on trust. That is deliberate. Surveys like this are most useful when readers can interrogate the data themselves and draw their own conclusions about their own corner of the industry.
Reading the conclusions
The near-future section is usually the one people turn to first, because it captures what an international group of operators believed was coming next. Compared against what actually happened, those expectations make for instructive reading. The safety risk section is the quieter but arguably more important part, since it shows how consistently – or inconsistently – the community was applying formal risk methods at the time.
