CAA Consultation - Review of UK UAS Regulations

Oh, for fuck sake!

Amend regulation to use UK-specific class-identification labels on class-marked UAS, replacing the C0 label with UK0 and so forth, to differentiate between compliance in the UK and EU.

and

Amend regulation to allow EU class-marked UAS to operate in the Open Category, in the same sub-categories as their UK equivalents, prior to 1st January 2028. This aims to support UAS users conduct operations in the Open Category before UK class-marked UAS become widely available

Don’t get me wrong - happy that I’ll be able to fly my Air 3S as it was intended come January … but after all this we’re back to trying to plan around an ever-shifting “date of doom” whilst we wait for somebody to come up with bespoke safety standards and then convince global manufacturers that we’re a big enough market to make it worth their while to comply.

Is it too soon to start a thread to talk about the new date this gets pushed back to in the summer of 2027?


Edit: Going to repost this over in the actual discussion about class marks :wink:

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