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Old 08-01-2012 | 12:17 AM
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I'm more concerned with the fact that there are no real regulations out there today as it relates to:

1: When a UAS is unable to communicate with its controller, what is the recommended and absolutely required actions of the aircraft? If its to return to base, which base? What if there is insufficient fuel? Go to a body of water? Nearest field?

2: What is the level of encryption required for communicating with the UAS as well as what sort of authentication will be enforced?

3: What are the required auditing, power-on-calibration steps taken every time a UAS is booted to ensure its software has not been tampered with?

4: What is the required logging/data collection involved with the operation of the UAS? All air-to-ground instructions? What about logging/recording on the device itself (just like most aircraft)?

5: Will there be any out-of-band methods to control the UAS? What about just for simple return to base or automatic shutdown commands?

I'd love to see the above answered, but so far from my understanding each UAS vendor is very tight-lipped about their capabilities and hand-wave over some of the above items. Without any set standards on UAS, we're going to be in for an interesting time.
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