The Value of Step-by-Step Risk Assessment for Unmanned Aircraft

Abstract

The new European legislation expected in 2018 or 2019 will introduce a step-by-step process for conducting risk assessments for unmanned aircraft flight operations. This is a relatively simple approach to a very complex challenge. This work compares this step-by-step process to high fidelity risk modeling, and shows that at least for a series of example flight missions there is reasonable agreement between the two very different methods.