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Pilot Responsibilities • Report to the FAA within 10 days any
operation that results in at least serious
injury, loss of consciousness, or property
Our National Airspace has an excellent safety damage (other than to the UAV) of at least
record. This is largely due to the culture of $500.
safety that surrounds traditional pilots from • Conduct a preflight inspection, to include
their first day of ground school. It makes specific aircraft and control station systems
sense that UAV pilots wouldn’t have the same checks, to ensure the small UAS is in a
training and certification requirements as condition for safe operation.
traditional pilots, but they are still just as • Ensure that the small unmanned aircraft
responsible for maintaining the integrity and complies with the existing registration
Regulations safety of the national airspace. requirements specified in § 91.203(a)(2).
15-25% • A remote pilot in command may deviate
Piloting a UAV, whether commercially from these requirements in response to
or recreationally, should never be taken an in-flight emergency.
lightly. According to Part 107, the minimum
responsibilities of a pilot-in-command include:
• Make available to the FAA, upon request, the
small UAS for inspection or testing, and any
associated documents/records required to be
kept under the rule.
Operations
13-18%
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