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Good afternoon all - I'm a new member and this is my first post, would be very grateful of some assistance. I recently contacted the CAA regarding permissions/qualifications required for using a Phantom 2 Vision - was given 3 different phone numbers, and the final one basically had an answerphone which said any queries relating to SUA's should be sent by email. Email was duly sent, only to receive an auto-reply which basically said we're too busy to respond to all emails!! I'm hoping that the expertise on this forum may assist me - I've copied my email to the CAA below -which pretty much covers my query. As I said above, any assistance or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Good afternoon,
I’m hoping that you can offer me some guidance regarding the training/qualification requirements required to operate a small drone. I’ve read quite a few documents on the CAA website but am still not entirely sure what is required.
We are a company and some of our work involves assessing damage to roofs following bad weather for example. It can sometimes be difficult to access a roof to make an assessment, where the roof is a flat roof on a two storey extension for example. We are hoping to use a small drone with a camera fitted to view the roof and help our staff with their assessments.
While I gather from the website we will require CAA permission to operate a drone in close proximity to buildings, I’m not so clear on the qualifications required, if any.
Looking at document CAP722 on your website, it indicates in Section 4 that the need for qualifications depends on certain risk factors. In our case the device’s mass is less than 2kg (DJI Phantom 2 Vision), and it would always be operated within line of sight, typically no higher than the roof line of domestic properties (9-10 metres from ground level). If I interpret table 4.7.1 of the document correctly this possibly places our operation in the ‘Case 0’ category, which indicates for an operating mass of 7kg or less, that the qualifications required are ‘none’ or ‘BNUC-S’ or equivalent (apologies if I have misinterpreted this section in any way).
I’d be very grateful if you could provide some guidance on the above, and whether we would require our staff to hold qualifications or not.
Kind regards,
Good afternoon,
I’m hoping that you can offer me some guidance regarding the training/qualification requirements required to operate a small drone. I’ve read quite a few documents on the CAA website but am still not entirely sure what is required.
We are a company and some of our work involves assessing damage to roofs following bad weather for example. It can sometimes be difficult to access a roof to make an assessment, where the roof is a flat roof on a two storey extension for example. We are hoping to use a small drone with a camera fitted to view the roof and help our staff with their assessments.
While I gather from the website we will require CAA permission to operate a drone in close proximity to buildings, I’m not so clear on the qualifications required, if any.
Looking at document CAP722 on your website, it indicates in Section 4 that the need for qualifications depends on certain risk factors. In our case the device’s mass is less than 2kg (DJI Phantom 2 Vision), and it would always be operated within line of sight, typically no higher than the roof line of domestic properties (9-10 metres from ground level). If I interpret table 4.7.1 of the document correctly this possibly places our operation in the ‘Case 0’ category, which indicates for an operating mass of 7kg or less, that the qualifications required are ‘none’ or ‘BNUC-S’ or equivalent (apologies if I have misinterpreted this section in any way).
I’d be very grateful if you could provide some guidance on the above, and whether we would require our staff to hold qualifications or not.
Kind regards,