Document Type
Report
Abstract
There is an emerging aviation safety concern regarding risks to manned flight from the increasing population of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS).2 This paper describes a method to support pilots in manned aircraft by providing them with essential safety information: the potential location of nearby sUAS within certain active3 Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM)-enabled airspace.4 Such airspace is designated within UAS Facility Map (UASFM) segments5 reflecting Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC)6- enabled airspace. UASFM segments specify maximum altitudes authorized for certain sUAS operations without further coordination with the controlling facility. Enhanced awareness of nearby UAS could be crucial to flight safety as manned aircraft pilots are required by regulation to be familiar with all available information7 to avoid operating an aircraft so close to another aircraft as to create a collision hazard, and to see and avoid other aircraft.8 The proposed method would serve as a non-exclusive, interim safety mitigation until the widespread deployment of effective sUAS traffic detection and avoidance technologies. The method may also have future applicability to other airspace proximate to airports.
Publication Date
3-8-2019
Recommended Citation
Aviators Code Initiative, "Improving Cockpit Awareness of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Near Airports A method to display active LAANC/UTM airspace to manned aircraft pilots" (2019). Improving Cockpit Awareness of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Near Airports. 2.
https://repository.fit.edu/cockpit_awareness/2
