A fifth edition of the U-space Concept of Operations is out from CORUS Five, a project of the SESAR Joint Undertaking. It sets out how drone flights can be managed as European airspace gets busier.
The document describes the services and procedures that flights need, the roles of the different actors and how U-space works with air traffic services and crewed aviation. Instead of the U1 to U4 levels of earlier editions, it uses short, medium and long-term horizons, ending with full integration of uncrewed aviation into the wider ICAO framework.
Also reported by Urban Air Mobility News and Unmanned Airspace
Background
SESAR Joint Undertaking
EU air traffic research partnership
The SESAR Joint Undertaking runs European research on future air traffic management, including the CORUS Five project.
U-space
European drone traffic management framework
U-space is the European framework of services and procedures for managing drone flights.
CORUS Five
U-space research project
CORUS Five is a SESAR Joint Undertaking project that wrote the fifth edition of the U-space Concept of Operations.
