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I attended this years CARAC session via teleconference in Toronto on on Feb 22. The CARAC Plenary is held once a year and is hosted out of Ottawa, with remote location across the country supported via video links.<\/span><\/p>\n The Toronto session was held in a government building on Yonge Street in North York, a suburb on the north side of the city of Toronto.<\/p>\n The Toronto session was held in a government building on Yonge Street in North York, a suburb on the north side of the city of Toronto.<\/span><\/p>\n I was there to get an update from the UAS Task Force on the new UAS regulations and when they were coming into force.<\/span><\/p>\n Leaders of the UAS Task Force, Ryan Coates and Felix Meunier gave an update on behalf of the UAS Task Force (UTF). They covered a number of points on the progress of the Task Force, the strategy they are working on, and some of the key feedback from the CG1 response. Felix’s highlights:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ryan Coates added another set of accomplishments so far…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the UAS front, nothing new as far as information. As far as dates, no comments even when asked specifically about implementation dates for the full regulations or CG2. Quite disappointing.<\/span><\/p>\n In general, this was a big session covering the whole gamut of operations that TC is involved with, with discussions covering airlines operations, maintenance, rule making, international collaboration to name a few. <\/span><\/p>\n There was, obviously, a very large Transport Canada from the DG level on down , as well as international representation from the FAA, EASA and ICAO.<\/span><\/p>\n Many large Industry players were in attendance, \u00a0from Airlines and Airline Groups, Pilots Associations, Regulators from several countries, Maintainers and Consulting firms to UAS Service Providers and Industry Associations.<\/span><\/p>\n In reality, it was clear that our UAS space is a very small part of a much bigger aviation industry and we are currently noise in the general discussion. Having said that, 75% of the people in the room in Toronto were UAS focused and left after the UAS update.<\/span><\/p>\n It was an interesting and informative session and I applaud Transport Canada efforts to make the session available across Canada, but unfortunately, \u00a0there were a number of issues around the teleconference that proved quite distracting. I plan to attend the session in person next year and I recommend the same to others interested in learning more about TC\u2019s activities and interaction with the Aviation Industry in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n Slides will be made available to participants at some point in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n Later on there was a overview of the key areas of focus from TC this year.<\/p>\n It was an interesting and informative session and I applaud Transport Canada efforts to make the session available across Canada, but unfortunately, \u00a0there were a number of issues around the teleconference that proved quite distracting. I plan to attend the session in person next year and I recommend the same to others interested in the session.<\/p>\n Slides will be made available to participants at some point in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Policy Focus (Minister Garneau very interested in these)<\/h4>\n
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Regulation Focus targeted in 2018 for CG1\/CG2<\/h4>\n
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