A comparative study on UAV pilot license by the classification criteria

무인비행장치 분류기준에 따른 조종 자격제도 비교 연구

Abstract

It is necessary to establish a UAV pilot license and training system because the number of UAV-related accidents has rapidly risen. Most of accidents are caused by the human factors such as the lack of control skill and aviation knowledge. In this paper, we investigate licensing policy of small UAV pilots and examine the level of UAV licensing system and classification criteria based on comparative analysis of national cases such as USA, UK and China. Recently, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Affairs is planning to improve the safety regulation by taking into account the risk level of the licensing system, which has been classified according to the existing weight and commercial purpose. From the comparative analysis, we suggested a improvement policy for UAV licensing system in the view of pilot license segmentation, beyond Visual Line-of-sight flight and high risk UAV for non-commercial.

Fig 1. Distribution of UAV for business

Fig 2. Number of UAV pilot by year

Table 1. Number of UAV by year

Table 2. Registered number of UAV by weight

Table 3. Number of UAV by weight reported to local aviation authorities

Table 4. UAV weight and license criteria

Table 5. UAV test system

Table 6. Constitution of FAA test subjects

Table 7. China UAV classfication criteria

Table 8. China UAV licensing system

Table 9. UK CAA licensing system by weight criteria

Table 10. Improvement of UAV classification criteria based on risk

Table 11. Comparison of UAV licensing system by weigt

Table 12. Suggession of UAV licensing system in the ROK