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Drones creating serious risk of collision

procedure manuals. He indicated that Rwanda facilitat- established drone inspectorate office, established a
ed collaboration from national security, cyber security drone technical team, conducted safety assessment,
experts and drone manufacturers. He noted that they established voluntary and instant reporting framework
had developed predetermined routes for safe naviga- and a single platform for UAS registration and permit
tion of drones and mapped out the country with areas request approvals. He outlined that UAV operations had
where drone operations were prohibited like in airports performance benefits as UAVs don’t require a pilot, can
and restricted in game parks. He outlines how their be used in manmade operations with a commercial
airspace is segregated with maximum altitude for drone benefit of transportation of cargo. He concluded that a
operations. performance based approach is required for commercial
drone regulation.
He indicated that from an oversight perspective Rwanda

Collaboration for Aviation Safety

by Maury Seck,

Airbus Regional Safety Director

Seck indicated that collaboration was key to delivering He noted that aviation traffic doubles every 15 years,
aviation safety. He noted that safety is not a destination thus higher growth will mean the safety levels require to
but it’s a process, adding that the fact the 2017 recorded be higher as the numbers will be even greater. He
the highest safety record for global passenger transport, concluded that closer collaboration and partnership
maintaining this status would required more support from manufacturers, Government authorities and oper-
and collaboration from all stakeholders. ators will all lead to higher safety levels.

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