{"id":1445,"date":"2019-04-24T20:41:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2019-04-24T20:41:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:41:54","slug":"tc-toronto-dronetalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/tc-toronto-dronetalks\/","title":{"rendered":"TC Toronto &#8220;#DroneTalks&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Transport Canada&#8217;s RPAS team has been fanning out to present the new RPAS\/drone rules in key centres across Canada to help get the word out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently attended the two Toronto events. One was in the evening and one during the day, with the same Transport Canada team presenting, augmented by our local Ontario inspectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The TC team provided a simplified overview of the new rules and the new aircraft regs. If you had not seen any of the new rules, the overview was a great start, but was too simplified in some places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of my notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>About 20 people in attendance the first night, with MAAC, operators and trainers in attendance.<\/li><li>Great representation from the RPAS task force from Ottawa and a very knowledge team.<\/li><li>It was clear that there are issues wth the Exam questions, including the quality and applicability to the RPAS world.<\/li><li>There was clarification that you need to be a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident to register a drone, but neither are required to get pilot certificate.<\/li><li>A City of Toronto representative was there, hoping to engage with the local folks; Toronto staff are preparing recommendations for drone activities in the city.<\/li><li>There was lots of discussion on the new Aircraft rules as implemented in AC922 covering operations in controlled airspace, near and over people.<\/li><li>The status of MAAC\u2019s exemption. The consensus was that MAAC was going to get an exemption and was only a matter of time.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a much bigger crowd at Vaughan the next day and a wider range of questions. Likely 40-50 people, from real estate, film companies, operators, MAAC club members, training schools and even an medivac Ornge helicopter pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key things that came up during the day session&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>TC is working with the NRC to develop a New Airspace mapping tool with the  ability to show different operational modes at a specific location for both basic and advanced.\u00a0<\/li><li>As per the CARS: all operations, both basic and advanced, will require a specific Site Survey to be done prior flying.<\/li><li>NavCan looking at an authorization app similar to LAANC in the US for controlled airspace access.<\/li><li>A bit of a discussion about Visual Observers and do they need at least a Basic certificate<\/li><li>More complaints on the exams and questions<\/li><li>More clarification questions on the CARs<\/li><li>There will be a new SFOC process and AC coming out May 1 to address<\/li><li>lots of IT work still needed on the drone portal to match the CARs<\/li><li>there was lots of tension in the room as you can imagine, with all the special interest groups and their concerns. That was handled well by the TC team.<\/li><li>A new section on RPAS rules being written for the AIM, and will likely be released early via an AC to make the exam process easier.<\/li><li>There were comments from some of the training schools present that the knowledge requirements document did not cover all the material on the exams; in effect they needed to teach a PPL course in addition to the RPAS to get students the knowledge to pass the exams.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the outreach plan, the team from TC  also offered to send staff to any industry events (with an invitation) to help get the word out and answer questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only issue I really had with both events was that not everyone on the TC team had a good grasp of the new rules and some erroneous comments were made that had to be corrected or walked back. Surprised that they would not all be up to speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slides from the presentation will be sent out and we will post once received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep an eye out on social media and twitter for a #DroneTalks event coming to a city near you.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport Canada&#8217;s RPAS team has been fanning out to present the new RPAS\/drone rules in key centres across Canada to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/tc-toronto-dronetalks\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Transport Canada fanning out across Canada to introduce new RPAS rules coming June 1st. #dronetalks","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115,83,111,82,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-june1strules","category-regulations","category-rpas","category-transport-canada","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1150.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YTZz-nj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ckmmphotographic.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}