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Subject: DRONE POLICY MUST COVER THIS
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Drone – a – Charya
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Economic
Times write about the INDIA
DRONE POLICY , at :
Highlights
:
Drones must
only be flown during daylight and maintain full visual line of sight at all
times
Drones must not drop / discharge material without
explicit clearance . Drones must not be operated from mobile platforms like moving
vehicles
Digital Sky is built around the principle
of ‘No Permission-No Takeoff.’ Only if a drone is compliant with this principle,
can it even be registered.
Digital Sky will be in charge of handling
flight permissions
A preflight
permission request will contain the geo-fence and timespan
outside of which a drone cannot fly. The drone will
not turn on if it does not have a valid permission from Digital Sky
[ Source : https://can-i-fly.skylarkdrones.com/#/ ]
In probably a global first, India’s drone policy
has introduced a ‘ No Permission- No Takeoff ’ (NPNT) clause.
It means drone hardware
have to be configured in such a way that unless regulatory permission is given,
the drone cannot take off.
Digital Sky has demarcated the Indian airspace into three distinct
categories: Red (no-fly zones), Yellow (restricted permissions), and Green (all
access).
MY TAKE
:
I
urge ,
· Shri
Jayant Sinhaji - Min for Civil Aviation [ Jayant.sinha19@sansad.nic.in ]
· Shri
B S Bhullarji - DGCA [ dgoffice@dgca.nic.in
]
· proposed
Drone Regulator
· Drone
Federation of India [ info@dronefederation.in
/ http://dronefederation.in/ ]
to invite comments from all the
stakeholders on my following suggestions by publishing on their respective web
sites :
# Just like today car manufacturers
stamp , CAR ENGINE NUMBER and CAR CHASIS
NUMBER , each drone (
coming out from the manufacturer’s factory ) , will have a
UNIQUE , “ Drone Number
“ ( which , manufacturer would obtain online from the
web site of the Drone Regulator by
registering each “ Model “being shipped out )
# Each drone would be embedded with
GPS and Internet Connection ( Internet of
Things ) and will
confirm to the ( planned ) protocol of the ( proposed ) National
Trusts Centre for “ Machine-to-Machine “
communication / certification , in respect
of “ Security by Design “
[
Source : Telecom
Commission to set up apex body for M2M devices/applications ]
This will ensure that no drone
can take to sky unless the owner logs into the web
site of the Drone Regulator ( using a
Mobile App ), and files its FLIGHT PLAN /
LOCATION / DURATION / HEIGHT /
DRONE CATEGORY / PURPOSE etc and the
Regulator Web site grants
clearance for take off
# Web site of the Drone Regulator will
continuously track / monitor the flight of
each and
every drone ( all over India ) on a monitor screen ( similar to tracking
of Airplanes in an
Air Traffic Control ( ATC ) room . Constant contact is the key !
Call this
: Drone
– A – Charya [ Drone
Traffic Controller - DTC ]
Controllers (
sitting in DTC ) will have facility to immediately “ Ground /
Immobilize “
any drone at any time , if security is about to be compromised or if
any drone is flying
outside of its “ Geo Fence “
Context :
# One real serious concern is
with regard to thousands of drones flying all over the
sky of a
metropolis and colliding with one another
I urge the (
proposed ) National Trust Centre , to develop a
software and make it
mandatory for all
drone manufacturers to pre-install this software
into the drones
, before shipping
out . This is described at :
This condition will
require all drone manufacturers ( local and foreign ) , to give an
appropriate “
Undertaking “ to the Drone Regulator . Failure to give such an
undertaking will
ensure that such drones are grounded / confiscated !
Permission will not be
granted to manufacturers of drones meant for war-like
activities ( dropping of
bombs etc )
# Frequent violation of the Flight Rules , should
lead to “ Black-listing
“ of any
particular drone
and it should be “ immobilized “ ( for varying periods , depending
upon the frequency
/ severity of violation )
Context :
After all , many elements of “
Traffic Control “ on the roads , are also relevant to
traffic control in the Sky ( especially
when , say , 10 milion drones are flying )
# Drone Regulator should
announce clear rules in respect of :
· Insurance
[ crashing / hurting / damaging ]
· Scraping
/ re-selling / transfer / gifting of drones
· Registration
by new buyer
#
Registration Form ( filled online through mobile app ) should require following
data :
· Buyer
category ( Individual / Commercial Company / Organizations etc )
· Aadhar
No / PAN No / Mobile No
·
#
Since most drones would be deployed by E Commerce companies for delivering of
goods, govt may consider “ pre-installing “ ( in the mobile app ), an ADDRESS
MAP ,
based on the technology developed by www.What3Words.com
, which will
enable better traffic control based on TRAFFIC
DENSITY on different locations ,
apart
from ensuring precise delivery to 3 meter x 3 meter squares of India’s land
# There will be many applications in which drone-mounted SENSORS (
including
cameras / mikes etc ) will be collecting / compiling , “ Personal / Private “ data of
persons or things ( eg : Photos / Videos / Images etc )
Strict law must be enacted that the owners of the drones cannot sell / share /
transfer such data to any third party other than a party which has “ contracted
“ for
such data collection / compilation
A very important “ Security Feature “ must ensure that the device ( drone ) by
itself
on its own , does not transmit any data to the drone manufacturer nor to any
owner
/ licensee of an Operating System ( eg : Google’s Android / Apple’s iOS etc )
All Mobile Apps which interact with a drone hardware or its embedded software (
including
Drone Operating System ), will need to be approved by Drone regulator
All such “ Data Collection
Contracts “ would require prior registration with the Drone
Regulator , providing full details of the contract ( especially the nature of
the data )
# Drone Policy must take into account that within the next 5 years ,
there will be in
our skies , “ Person Carrying Vehicles “ which may fall short of being
classified as “
Aircraft “ . Such vehicles must be classified as “ Drones “ and be subject to
Drone
Policy ( eg : Uber Lite aerial taxies )
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03 Sept 2018
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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