Maintenance
This type of maintenance includes routine tasks like inspections, adjustments, and the replacement of components based on time.
What is scheduled maintenance?
This brainstorming tool is utilized very early in UAS operations to identify initial safety issues.
What is the Preliminary Hazard List?
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a branch of this specific Federal Department.
What is the Department of Transportation?
This quantified compliance definition involves the specific time or distance that must separate aircraft.
What is Well Clear?
This landmark 1989 court case addressed whether aerial observation leading to an arrest was permissible under the Fourth Amendment.
What is Florida v. Riley?
Due to their exposure to weather and handling, these systems are more likely to require unscheduled maintenance than ground-based components.
What are Unmanned Aircraft?
In risk assessment, these are the 6 hazard probability levels.
What are frequent, probable, occasional, remote, improbable, and eliminated?
The FAA utilized these three tools in its toolbox.
What are Advisory Circulars, Technical Standards Orders, and Airworthiness Directives?
In DAA terminology, this is the system's ability to prevent a midair collision with another aircraft.
What is Collision Avoidance?
To receive an Emergency CoA, an agency must show an imminent risk of injury, that the mission cannot be done by manned aircraft, and that they have this.
What is an active CoA already in place?
GCS computers subject to these three factors that can cause them to malfunction or break.
What are moisture, lockups, & viruses?
This analysis is a crucial, ongoing tool used to evaluate hazards throughout every stage of an entire operation.
What is Operational Hazard Review and Analysis?
These are the three main regulatory functions of the FAA.
What are rulemaking, surveillance, and enforcement?
These are the 4 main categories of the DAA Boyd Cycle.
What are Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.
This type of Counter UAS tracking system scans for frequencies used by most known drones to detect and identify them.
What is Radio-frequency (RF)?
This preflight check involves testing specific links, autopilot control actuators, the flight termination system, and GPS/satellite phone functionality
What is the Whole of System Check?
The primary purpose of this evaluation is to develop safe practices and collect data for FAA authorization to fly in the national airspace.
What is a Safety Evaluation?
This specific organization published standards stating that no aircraft should be flown without a pilot over a state's territory without special authorization.
What is the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)?
A UA pilot who actively controls the aircraft's flight path is described by this phrase.
What is in-the-loop?
This interdiction method involves feeding a drone spurious communication or navigation links to take control of or misdirect it.
What is spoofing?
This term describes a culture where operators lack formal procedures or checklists and may be unfamiliar with maintenance ethics and legislative frameworks.
What is Model Aircraft Culture?
These are the operational phases or stages of Remotely Piloted Aircraft.
What are planning, staging, launch, flight, and recovery?
These are three main policy statements pertaining to UAS?
What are AFS-400, UAS Policy Statements 05-01, and Interim Operational Approval Guidance 08-01.
This aircraft component is considered a "cooperative" part of a Detect and Avoid (DAA) system.
What is a transponder?
This interdiction method disrupts a drone's satellite links, such as GPS or GLONASS, to interfere with navigation.
What is jamming?
These are the three main groups that work with standards developers in the FAA to develop nonbiased standards or specification documents that serve the industry and protect the public.
What are SAE, RTCA, and ASTM.
These types of displays provide position information as well as maneuver options or recommendations to help a pilot avoid collisions.
What are suggestive displays?
These are the two most common types of detectors used in Counter UAS systems.
What are RF and Radar?
This 2012 law enabled the use of Section 333 petitions to conduct civil commercial UAS operations.
What is the FAA Modernization and Reform Act?
This is the minimum horizontal distance recommended by the DoD SAA Science and Research Panel for maintaining "well clear" status.
What is 4000 feet?
These are the three main acts that regulate Counter UAS Interdiction Systems.
What are Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the U.S. Aircraft Sabotage Act, and FMRA?
This specific regulation states that no person may operate an aircraft in a careless or reckless manner that endangers life or property.
What is 14 CFR ยง 91.13(a)?
This term refers to information collected by a UAS that identifies a specific person.
What is covered data?
Export controls regulate these three main things.
What are the release of software, physical goods, and operational "know-how?
Operators should avoid using or sharing covered data for this specific purpose unless the subject provides consent.
What is marketing?
This agency is responsible for administering the Arms Export Control Act of 1976.
What is the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls?
UAS operators should avoid intentionally collecting covered data if they know the subject has this.
What is a reasonable expectation of privacy?
These regulations are used to govern commercial and dual-use items.
What are the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)?
UAS operators engaging in commercial activity should consider taking these three actions to secure covered data.
What are:
-making a reasonable effort to provide security training to employees with access to covered data
-making a reasonable effort to regularly monitor systems for breach and data security risks
-making a reasonable effort to permit only authorized individuals to access covered data.