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03/07/2025

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12/05/2025

All UAS Operators working in the Specific Category against an Operations Manual should push through a quick amendment in their Mandatory Occurrence Reporting section.

The link to the ECCAIRS system has now changed to https://eccairs.icao.int/reporting.

It's always good to have the link in your manual.

27/03/2025

I've been out of circulation a bit this week so it'll be great to come back to the small screen. The great thing is that we've had stuff going on with real potential impact on professional operators.

Hey everyone! Join Sean, Graham and Matt for a LIVE Q&A to talk about the topics you are asking about. Including the recent discussions on VLOS, C labels and...

10/03/2025

This isn't necessarily something I'd have chosen to do. But I believe the industry needs an effective trade body to act as a critical partner to the regulator.

I would ask anybody who believes the same to follow the link, and complete the form on the launch screen.

www.unmannedsupport.co.uk

30/01/2025

If you’ve been keeping track of the Geeksvana YouTube channel, you’ll know we have been asking some interesting questions about the UK CAA.

We know that these shows are effective.

This one may end up having the most impact by far.

Join us live this Friday 31st Jan at 19:00hrs GMT

Hey everyone! Join Sean, Graham Degg and Matt Williams for our final show in this series of shows focusing on the issues surrounding the CAA regulation of dr...

19/01/2025

A cunningly delayed blog…

Sick to the back teeth of “A lookback at…” review articles? My hope and desire is that by leaving this one for a couple of weeks into 2025, you’ll have generated some sort of immunity to review pieces by now. As a small drone operator, working in the Specific Category in particular, it can o...

18/11/2024

We're going to have a little chat about this tomorrow evening. 20:05.

Join us.

Hey everyone! This is an IMPORTANT topic. The CAA has released a public consultation revealing their intention to more than double some charges to drone user...

22/10/2024

We'll be taking a look at CAP3040, released recently. I suspect it won't be the last visit to this policy document but worth joining in this evening if you have any questions about it.

It may also help work through any potential misunderstandings.

19:05 22/10/2024

Hey everyone! Join Sean and Graham as they talk through the new BVLOS policy from the UK CAA. Atypical Airspace Environments (AAE) could be a game changer in...

02/10/2024

One for this evening 19:05hrs. We've had a response to the issues posed a couple of weeks ago around the CAP 3035 Annual Safety Report inaccuracies.

Hey everyone! Join Sean and Graham for a short show to discuss the response from the UK CAA to our recent content discussing the errors within essential CAP ...

27/09/2024

A musing on the concept of pushing back.

When you notice that something in the regulations doesn’t seem right, it’s best to raise it with the regulator.

If you have an online following, that can be leveraged to amplify the message and obtain quicker results. It’s not always necessary. I’ve obtained great results on CAP2606 this year by combating the CAA enquiries email with every single issue found in the document.

But earlier in the year the “big guns” were considered necessary.

I was sent an email informing me of the CAA’s plan around the annual cost for an Operational Authorisation. You can read the details in the blog linked here. It’s the happy ending blog but links back to the original story.

The original blog was posted on LinkedIn. I post there because I know it will be seen by senior staff at the CAA as well as folk across the government and industry.

The result?

Each and every operator who renewed after April 1 2024 paid £234 instead of £314. That’s a saving of £80 per PDRA01 Operational Authorisation.

From the CAAs latest Annual Safety Report we know there are 2946 OA holders. At any one time there are usually around 100 non-PDRA01 OAs knocking around (to cover ORA/OSCs). I’m going to call it 146 and estimate the number of PDRA01 OA holdersholders at 2800.

Each one saved £80 this year.

That’s a total of 80x2800 = £224,000 saved.

That’s going down as a win.

ALWAYS PUSH BACK.

It’s true The CAA has listened and back-pedalled on its proposed 45% price increase PDRA01 renewals. Just a really short message. The CAA has confirmed that it will no longer increase its charge for a PDRA01 OA renewal by 45%. If you saw the last Eyeup blog, you’d have been rightfully concerned ...

18/09/2024

Trouble in "paradise"? We're taking a look this evening.

Hey everyone! Join Sean and Graham for a look at the latest report released by the UK CAA. As well as telling us some interesting safety information, proving...

13/09/2024

Anybody attending Dronex in London this year will find Eyeup on stand H8.

I’ll be attending both as Eyeup and in support of Sean from Geeksvana.

Pop to the stand and say hello. If you need any help with an operations manual update I’ll be running an offer during the show.

It’s free to attend and a great day out in London!

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