Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management Certification Consultation

1. Do you agree with the proposed roles and descriptors for UTMSPs and UDSPs? Are they clear and workable in practice?

Yes No

2. Do you have a preferred policy option to address UK Regulation (EU) 2017/373 Annex V Part MET, from the list provided in 3.87?

Yes No

Please explain your answer alongside any other thoughts or recommendations you may have:

3. Are there any of the proposed policy options for MET that you do not support?

Yes No

Please explain why:

4. Do you have a preferred policy option to address UK Regulation (EU) 2017/373 Annex VI Part AIS, from the list provided in 3.108?

Yes No

Please explain your answer alongside any other thoughts or recommendations you may have:

5. Are there any of the proposed policy options for AIS that you do not support?

Yes No

Please explain why:

6. Do you have a preferred policy option to address UK Regulation (EU) 2017/373 Annex VII Part DAT, from the list provided in 3.128?

Yes No

Please explain your answer alongside any other thoughts or recommendations you may have:

7. Are there any of the proposed policy options for DAT that you do not support?

Yes No

Please explain why:

8. Do you agree with the CAA’s proposed approach to applying elements of existing ATM/ANS regulation to UTM and UDSP services?

Yes No

Please explain your answer:

9. Are there specific areas of the existing regulatory framework that you consider not applicable, not proportionate, or requiring amendment for UTM?

10. Should a Common Information Service provider (CISP) role be introduced, or is it sufficient to rely on existing service providers? What are the benefits and risks of each approach?

11. What are the operational and safety implications of relying on multiple information sources compared to a single access point?

12. What UTM-related information or events should be shared with other airspace users, and how should this be communicated?

13. What are the biggest challenges you currently face in information exchange and data consumption for UTM operations?

14. In which situations do you rely on authoritative versus non-authoritative data sources, and what risks or mitigations are associated with this?

15. What would an effective aeronautical and meteorological information environment for UTM look like?

16. What data quality, assurance, and provenance requirements are necessary to support safe UTM operations?

17. What information about UTMSPs (e.g. services, availability, airspace coverage) should be made available to airspace users, and how should it be presented?

18. What standards and requirements should support flight authorisation and intent sharing between UTM stakeholders?

19. Do you consider the proposed framework to be proportionate and workable in practice? Are there elements that may be overly burdensome or incompatible with existing or emerging service models?

20. Should existing certificated ANSPs be eligible to provide UTMSP or UDSP services?

Yes No

What safeguards would be required?

21. What risks or unintended consequences should the CAA consider in developing the UTM regulatory framework?

22. Are there any risks or unintended consequences in applying, and where proposed, amending the legislation referenced in this chapter to UTM?

23. Are there specific legislative frameworks that should not apply, or require amendment, to support UTM?

24. Is there anything else you would like to tell us that we have not covered in this consultation?

Summary of questions