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UAS SAFETY AND INTEGRATION TASK FORCE

UPDATECONTRIBUTING COMMITTEES AND WORKING GROUPS

TASK FORCE MEETINGDECEMBER 11TH, 2018

• Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence & Innovation -NASA Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge

• The Arlington Chamber of Commerce UAS Consortium and UAS Werx

• The City of Fort Worth - Unmanned Aerial System Use Policy

WORKING GROUPS

• Education and Public Awareness• Legislation• Training• Integration

Each Working Group will be tasked with the following:1. Identifying Issues2. Provide Recommendations 3. Who on the Task Force can act on solution?4. Is the Solution Scalable?5. How could the solution be funded?6. Determine Working Group Leaders7. Report all findings to Task Force

EDUCATION AND PUBLIC AWARENESSWORKING GROUP MEMBERS - 28

Top 3 Issues• Lack of Pubic Outreach

• Getting UAS into schools

• Lack of Designated flying areas

Solutions• Create Public Outreach Strategy

• UAS Industry Outreach at Career/youth events, youth interest groups/teams

• Bring your drone to the park day at various locations regionally

Industry13

Government4

Education4

NCTCOG2

Public Safety

2

Airport2

Insurance1

LEGISLATIONWORKING GROUP MEMBERS - 21

Top 3 Issues• UAS Law education for state legislators

• Education of law enforcement members

• Industry Weigh in on proposed law

Possible Solutions• General informational session

• Utilize FAA’s document to create a platform to educate law enforcement

• Provide comments, letter of support and letters of non support for proposed State and Federal Laws

Industry8

NCTCOG4

Government2

Airlines2

Public Safety2

Insurance1

Education1

Airports1

TRAININGWORKING GROUP MEMBERS - 26

Top 3 Issues• Lack of baseline training curriculum

• Credentialing without flight demonstration

• Getting job titles/categories assigned appropriately

Possible Solutions• Establish baseline curriculum

• TOP Model, create standard curriculum to submit to FAA

• Survey companies in region on current needs

Industry12

Government4

Education4

Public Safety

3

NCTCOG1

Airport1

Insurance1

INTEGRATIONWORKING GROUP MEMBERS - 26

Top 3 Issues• Lack of special rules/regs for aircraft

certification & airworthiness

• Lack of test sites/ranges

• Operation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems over People

Solutions• Endorse an airworthiness/certification standard

• Designate test areas, emulate other test sites' modeling

• Provide comments for the NPRM for Operation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems over People

Industry12

Airport5

Government5

Public Safety

2

Airlines1

Education1

NEXT STEPS

Task Force Meeting – February 18th

Presentations from:Bell/NASA - NASA SIO Program and Air Taxi IntegrationNavy – UAS and the Navy Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence & Innovation - Urban Air Mobility

Testing Ground

Working Group Meetings – February 25th

Know Before You Fly Workshop RFQ

QUESTIONS?

Ernest HuffmanPrincipal Transportation Planner

[email protected] (817) 704-5612

UAS Operations at Dallas-Ft. Worth International AirportFebruary 7, 2019

Air Transportation Advisory Committee1

DFW Fact Sheet


DFW is the 4th busiest airport in the world by aircraft operations (650,000+ takeoffs and landings / capacity of 240 operations/hour)DFW is the 12th busiest airport in the world by passenger volume

(67,000,000+ passengers – projections of over 75,000,000 by 2020)17,208 acres (larger than the island of Manhattan)AOA approximately 5,000 acresAirport perimeter 38+ miles3 Control Towers7 runways5 Terminals172 Terminal gates

DFW UAS Certificate of Authorization


One of the first airports in the country to receive FAA authorization to operate UAS in Class B airspaceOperations in support of law enforcement activities: Training flights Aerial monitoring of public-area activities Live video for incident support Suspicious package inspection Other uses under development

Operations in support of other Airport Board departments: Construction project inspection Utility location

DFW UAS Letter of Agreement


Procedures: P-I-C pre-flight communications with ATC

o Latitude/Longitude fix / altitude / call sign / lost link procedures

ATC approvalo Altitude (100’ above tallest obstruction) / radius restrictions o Frequency assignment

Flight operationso Two-way communicationo Traffic advisorieso Fly away procedures

• Last known direction of flight / battery life in minutes (cease air carrier operations)• Tethered flights

DFW UAS Letter of Agreement


Procedures: Tenant communications

o Limited dissemination o Airport 9-1-1 Center to prep for “See Something, Say Something” callso American Airlines internal communications

Initial tenant concernso American Airlines Risk Department conducted an SRA o Operation over parked aircraft (waiver for operation over people / taxiing aircraft)o No flights over moving aircrafto Ground crew perception of management oversight of job performance

Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability(LAANC)


Automated process granting approval to operate UAS in minutes instead of months

Mobile application

A few caveats for operations within restricted airspace

“Zero” airspace requests directed to local ATChttps://faa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9c2e4406710048e19806ebf6a06754ad

https://faa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9c2e4406710048e19806ebf6a06754ad


DFW Airspace MapFall 2016

no fly zone

UAS operations conducted at DFW


DPS training flightsDPS video productionTri-annual emergency response exercise supportMovement area pavement surface inspectionUtility locationPrivate 3rd party media photography

including free and tethered flights, night flights within AOAPrivate 3rd party real estate promotion

initially unknown to DPS / Airport Operations – required policy

Future UAS operations at DFW


Part 139 inspectionsCFR 1540/1542 inspectionsAirport infrastructure inspections – surfaces / buildingsPackage deliveries

part deliveriesconvenient-to-airport warehousing

Transportation Network Company flight operations(autonomous)

Unquantifiable potential uses

Questionsand Discussion


Paul SichkoVice President – OperationsDallas-Fort Worth International Airport

[email protected]

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