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 “
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
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