Avinor med i UAS arbeide internasjonalt

Successful Conclusion of ICAO UAS Seminar in Lima, Peru

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Peter van Blyenburgh

05 12.00 - 12.30 Current status of work in the field of UAS-related standards in Europe

Tore Kallevig, AVINOR (on behalf of EUROCAE WG73), Norway

Bio data:

Tore B. Kallevig (36) works for Avinor, the Norwegian Air Navigation Service Provider. He started out his career as Officer in the Royal Norwegian Navy, but in 1994 aviation caught his interest and he started in Luftfartsverket (now Avinor). After completing his ATCO training at Serco IAL, Bailbrook College, Bath, England in 1996 he worked both Tower and Approach Control in several parts of Norway. Since 1997 he has worked Area Control, and for the last six years, he held the position as Chief Air Traffic Controller at Stavanger Air Traffic Control Centre

in the south western part of Norway. Mr. Kallevig was also responsible for the operational implementation of a new automated radar control system for 8 ATS units in 2004, as well as the training of relevant operational staff. Amongst other positions he held, he has also been the Centre’s Head of Training and Procedures Specialist.

Mr. Kallevig is the newly elected chairman of EUROCAE Workgroup 73 UAS, and he is also representing Avinor in the NEAP project NEFAB. NEFAB is the North European Functional Airspace Block with member states Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Norway and Sweden. NEFAB is organised under the umbrella of North European ANS Providers (NEAP) and is one of the improvement initiatives in the NEAP ATM Master Plan. Mr. Kallevig is a member (observer) of the UVS International Board of Directors.

Abstract:

One might say that the UAS Standards Development for some time now has moved forward at a slow although firm pace, just like a glacier. In the wake of the now published Concept Document (Deliverable 3), which identifies the main topics and the possible conceptual ways to address them, the past year’s activities were mostly dedicated to defining and agreeing on realistic and affordable medium term WG73 objectives to establish the corresponding Work Plan and to organize and start the related tasks. Transatlantic discussions with RTCA Special Committee 203 leadership team (the US WG73 counterpart) helped defining a common global perspective, thus establishing further cooperative and collaborative activities in order to maintain progress and to enhance harmonization of outputs of the two standards groups. Discussions also took place during the last year to identify the most efficient way to progress towards recommendations and standards for Visual Line Of Sight (VLOS) flight operations with an ‘external pilot’ controlling the unmanned aircraft using his own eyes, taking into account the request from the European Commission to consider establishing a separate group working on small UAS. Indeed VLOS operations with small UAS are identified as a short term promising market.