DGCA to collaborate with EASA on Unmanned Aircraft Systems: The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) during the India-EU Aviation Summit in New Delhi, India, for collaboration in unmanned aircraft and systems, as well as innovative air mobility.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz: July 2023
DGCA and EASA Collaboration:
The European Commission and India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation jointly organised the EU-India Aviation Summit in New Delhi in April 2023, during which the Director General of Civil Aviation and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in unmanned aircraft systems and innovative air mobility.
The two-day summit focused on expanding EU-India aviation political, technical, and industrial collaboration.
The signing of MoU is expected to result in the establishment of the harmonized standards and development of Indian Aviation Sector.
Collaboration in the areas of certification standards, environmental standards, and related requirements for the certification and use of unmanned aircraft systems, as well as innovative air mobility operations such as personnel licencing, training, air traffic management, and infrastructure, including Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) standards and services, will be part of this collaboration.
The MoU will share information related to technological developments and research in this area and also their respective strategies for outreach to relevant stakeholders between DGCA and EASA.
Unmanned Aircraft System:
- Unmanned Aircraft Systems are air vehicle that do not carry a human operator, but instead are remotely piloted or fly autonomously.
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) and drones are some other names of Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
- A Unmanned Aircraft Systems generally consist of :
- An aircraft with no pilot on board.
- A remote pilot station.
- A command and control link
A payload specific to the intended application/operation, which often includes cameras and or other sensors that collect data for near term analysis.
