CivOps 2016 lecture Assorpas FIAPR Sapritalia UASIT

Author

By: Olivier Fontaine

From the Italian experience to an European model.
Italy's Machiavelian scenario. Going from 106 school to only 7

CIVOPS 2016 is organized by UVSI

Abstract of Sapritalias comunication.
A rapid analysis highlights that the Italian concept of a train is completely based on unknown criteria. At the beginning, in absence of a real framework, in less of one year, 106 schools saw the daylight. All of these schools received the approval from the Italian NAA (ENAC), but on 1 July 2016 all of the approvals were cancelled. The promised list of the new schools was published two and a half months later (mid of September). To our amazement, they were only seven training centers for the entire Italian territory. Some of the new approved training centres are trademark training centres of RPAS designers or manufacturers/integrators. It is well known that in addition to the authorized operators, there are thousands of illegals. The findings of our survey demonstrates that “drone” enthusiasts have a huge lack of basic competencies. The proposed framework for the training in Italy does not take in consideration all the JARUS recommended matters.  Exams will be made by means of only 24 questions under the supervision of the training centre, without any oversight by the NAA. The probable outcome will be that Italian operators using Italian will be unable to compete with other European pilots due to an evident lack of knowledge. Obviously, we already denounce this Machiavellian state of affairs, but the internal situation is so chaotic, that it is even impossible to get a direct line with the responsible person at ENAC, who has not answered any of our calls.