The Air Space Control Department (DECEA) participated, on the 16th, in the Drone Congress in Búzios. On the occasion, officers from the so-called line eight of the DECEA Operations Subdepartment, responsible for the areas of unmanned aircraft operations in the spheres of planning, coordination and standardization, guided s regarding the appropriate procedures related to these flights, as well as the new solutions being implemented by the Department.
At the opening, after broadcasting a promotional video on the rules for the activity, produced by DECEA, the head of DECEA's Unmanned Aircraft System Planning Section, Captain Jean Pierre de Castro Benevides, reported on a series of initiatives that have been being implemented to efficiently absorb the growing demand for unmanned flights.
One year after the implementation of the system for requesting access to airspace by unmanned aircraft (SARPAS), in 2017, DECEA received 19.721 flight requests. Four years later, in 2021, there were 243.842. A demand growth of around 1.300%.
To absorb this evolution, the official pointed out that DECEA is in the process of inaugurating a new system that has a series of functionalities suggested by the s themselves, such as integration with the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) database, for For example, for the management of flight requests, the SARPAS NG. “We are working hard to launch SARPAS NG. There will be many improvements. Among them, the integration of DECEA and ANAC databases and the feasibility of using the federal government's single and (centralized on the website www.gov.br)”
Among other matters, the official also mentioned negotiations in the field of Urban Air Mobility (UAM – Urban Air Mobility) and the “Detect and Avoid” project, an initiative by DECEA in partnership with the Instituto de Controle do Espaço Aéreo (ICEA) and the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), whose objective is to provide remote pilots with the same capabilities as pilots of manned aircraft, in of identifying and avoiding obstacles in flight.
The head of the Unmanned Aircraft System Coordination and Control Section, Lieutenant Eduardo Silva, addressed unmanned flight operations in the country from the point of view of current operations. He explained the competences and attributions of regulatory bodies, nomenclatures, norms and, among other matters, highlighted the importance of pilots properly requesting access to airspace through SARPAS.
The officer also urged s to participate more, especially in the development of standards through PRENOR, a kind of public consultation by DECEA, prior to the publication of standards, available on the DECEA Publications website.
“Each new standard in the process of being implemented is available on PRENOR for a period of 30 days, in order to receive suggestions and criticisms from s, before being published. You are also responsible for publishing these standards. Participate! We expect this from you. Even because, we are standardizing, coordinating, guiding, but the ones who are operating are you, gentlemen and ladies.”
The officer also highlighted the timely operation of the tactical position of the SARPAS team at the Air Navigation Management Center (CGNA), highlighted the intense demand for information related to the activity, received daily by the DECEA Citizen Assistance System and dedicated a significant amount of time of the lecture to solve all the doubts of the participants.
Already a tradition in the Rio de Janeiro Lagos Region, Drone in Búzios had suspended its activities since 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2022, the event received a total of 11 speakers in the two days of the event, April 16 and 17, held at the Ferradura Resort hotel.
Street: Department of Airspace Control - DECEA
