1 – RESULTS : UAS OPS & OPS RISK Surveys – 16 Pages – Only in English
UAS OPS
Respondents (General, Comments, Conclusions)
Current Situation (General, Comments, Conclusions)
Near Future (General, Comments, Conclusions)
Safety Risk Analysis Methods (General, Comments, Conclusions)
OPS RISK
Respondents, General, Comments, Conclusions
Annex 1
Nominal list of participants
Annex 2
10 tables & 4 graphs
2 – CONCLUSIONS : UAS OPS & OPS RISK Surveys – 40 pages – Only in English
Introduction & Objective
Terms & Explanations
Survey Methodology
Survey Respondents (nominal listing & basic numbers)
UAS OPS
Current Situation – Market Sectors & Flight Missions
Near Future – Market Sectors & Flight Missions
Comparison Current & Near Future – Market Sectors & Flight Missions
SORA Access & Use
OPS RISK
SORA, Standard Scenarios, Predefined Risk Assessment
About the UAS OPS & OPS RISK surveys
These two linked surveys set out to do something the industry talks about constantly but rarely measures: find out how unmanned aircraft are actually being operated, and how operators really think about safety risk. It is easy to assume everyone follows best practice. The point of asking is to discover where reality and theory part company.
The UAS OPS survey looked at the operational side – who is flying, what they fly, the current state of their operations and where they expect to be in the near future. The OPS RISK survey dug into the methods operators use to analyse and manage safety risk. Taken together they give a snapshot of operational maturity across a broad, international group of respondents.
How to read the results
The results document runs to sixteen pages and the conclusions to roughly forty, both in English only. They are organised so a reader can go straight to the section that interests them – respondent profiles, the current situation, the near-future outlook, or the safety risk analysis methods – without wading through the whole thing. The annexes carry the nominal list of participants and the supporting tables and graphs.
A word of caution that applies to any survey of this kind: the figures describe the people who chose to respond, not the entire industry. Read that way, they are a valuable indicator of where the engaged, professional end of the community stood at the time.
