As unmanned aircraft systems become increasingly integrated into global airspace, the industry faces a critical challenge: aligning operational approval with long-term safety assurance.
Meet Our Panelists
Panelist:
Dunia Abboud
Head of External Relations and Commercial Activities
Bureau Veritas
Panelist:
David Hansell
UAS Inspector
Irish Aviation Authority
Panelist:
Lorenzo Murzilli
CEO & Founder
Murzilli Consulting
Panelist:
Joerg Dittrich
Lead
JARUS Safety Risk Management Working Group, DLR
Moderator:
Harrison Wolf
Associate Director, Advanced Aviation Systems Group
Flight Safety Foundation
Risk-based methods for approving new operations are essential to enabling rapidly evolving technologies such as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). This webinar will explore the growth of UAS activity and examine how new approval and oversight frameworks are reshaping traditional approaches to safety assurance.
Attendees will be introduced to UAS approval processes and gain a practical understanding of how operational approval connects to ongoing safety assurance. The webinar will coincide with the publication of a new Flight Safety Foundation white paper, Closing the Gap Between Approval and Assurance: Aligning Objectives in UAS Safety Frameworks.
Serving as the foundation for the discussion, the paper examines the relationship between a leading risk methodology used to approve UAS operations and the FSF BARS-RPAS framework used to audit those operations after approval.
Webinar Takeaways
- Gain insight into the paper’s key recommendations and their relevance to both emerging UAS operations and traditional aviation stakeholders.
- Learn how risk-based and performance-based approval methodologies, including those used for civilian UAS operations, require robust and often more complex assurance processes after operations are approved.
- See how safety assurance, the third pillar of safety management systems, is critical to the safe and sustainable growth of UAS operations worldwide.
- Understand best practices in enabling and overseeing UAS operations as they scale across the globe.
Join the conversation and discover the strategies helping close the gap between
operational approval and long-term safety assurance.
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