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some operation scenarios. management and flight information
The micro RPAS flies outside the service, public safety management, and
prohibited airspace and does not user service.
need to apply for a flight plan, and Airspace management mainly deals
light RPAS and agriculture applica- with the functions of airspace plan-
tion RPAS flying in the appropriate ning, approval, release, flight plan dec-
airspace do not need to apply for a laration and approval, and real-time
flight plan, but dynamic information monitoring of flight.
must be submitted in real time to the Civil aviation management and flight
supervision platform for RPAS. information management is undertak-
In addition, organizations or indi- en by the RPAS air traffic management
viduals engaged in other categories of information service system (UTMISS)
RPAS flight activities must submit an of CAAC (www.utmiss.com). It mainly
application for a flight plan to the lo- implements the functions of mon-
cal air traffic control department prior itoring information collection and
to flight, and the flight plan should not processing, civil aviation flight safety
be implemented until it is approved. assessment, information transmission,
user information management, user
Dedicated RPAS Branch—National and RPAS information verification, and
Aircraft Standardization Technical information integration service, etc.
Committee’s RPAS Subtechnical It is deployed in the center southern
Committee region administration of CAAC, ATMB,
In December 2018, the first RPAS Sub- the Civil Aviation Shenzhen Adminis-
technical Committee (SAC/TC435/ tration, and the local air traffic control
SC1) of the National Aircraft Stand- station. Through communication with
ardization Technical Committee was the civil aviation service, the public
established to be responsible for the safety service, and other systems,
development of national standards UTMISS provides RPAS flight applica-
in the fields of design, manufacture, tion information, real-name registra-
delivery, operation, maintenance, tion information of inspectors, pilot li-
and management of civil RPAS. In cense information, RPAS airworthiness
line with the International Organi- information, RPAS operator certificate
zation for Standardization’s Techni- information, and RPAS owner informa-
cal Committee on Aeronautics and tion to all service systems.
Spacecraft’s Technical Subcommittee Public safety management main-
on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ISO/ ly deals with the functions of public
TC20/SC16), it aims to promote the security filing, real-time flight monitor-
development of the industry standard ing, and networking of detection and
system for RPAS, improve the safety countermeasures equipment, etc.
and quality level of RPAS products, User service mainly focuses on the
and promote the high-quality develop- functions of user registration, infor-
ment of China’s RPAS industry. mation inquiry, flight plan application,
submission of flight dynamic informa-
tion, and notification and reminder,
Air Traffic Management System for etc.
Civil RPAS The integrated monitoring platform
On Nov. 19, 2018, the test project of for RPAS takes flight management as
RPAS flight management in Shenzhen its core, including elements such as
was launched, and the comprehensive airspace management, civil aviation
supervision platform was put on line management, and public safety
for trial operation. At the same time, management to meet the needs of fast
the Implementation Measures for flight approval, real-time visibility of
RPAS Flight Management was issued flight paths, rapid verification of
in Shenzhen, announcing that the control, and release of comprehensive
comprehensive supervision platform information. Through the platform, the
would efficiently connect users and functions and tasks of military, civil
management departments. The plat- aviation, and public security are
form mainly consists of modules of defined and the coordination relation-
airspace management, civil aviation ship is clarified.

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