Assessing the Risks of Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (2018) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: The MIZOPEX Example: Flight Operations Denied
Appendix C: The MIZOPEX Example: Flight Operations Denied
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As shown in Figure C.2, the airframe of the DataHawk consisted of a repurposed hobby aircraft made of lightweight EPP foam, a small metallic motor and battery, and miniaturized electronics for sensing and communications. The primary mission of the DataHawk was to fly through the airspace corridor, shown in Figure C.3, from restricted airspace at Oliktok Point, Alaska, to a point in the Beaufort Sea approximately 27 nautical miles from shore, where it would land on the water and convert to a miniature surface buoy to transmit ocean surface temperature, using the foam airframe to stay afloat on the water.
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• Wingspan: 1 m • Weight: ~700 gm • Electric propulsion • Rear folding propeller • Airspeed: 14 m/s • Power: 40‐minute lifetime battery • Cost: ~$600 • Airframe: Expanded polypropylene (EPP) foam • Autonomous flight control, with user supervision while in communications range • Communications range: ~5 km • Flight range: ~30 km • Has received multiple Certificates of Authorization from the FAA FIGURE C.2 Datasheet for the University of Colorado DataHawk UAS.
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was prepared following the guidelines of FAA Safety Risk Management Policy, Order 8040.4A. Federal Aviation Regulations Part 101-Moored Balloons, Kites, Amateur Rockets, Unmanned Free Balloons, and Certain Model Aircraft, which allows unregulated flights of similar payload packages (up to 4 pounds, compared to the DataHawk at 1.5 pounds)
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: The iterative nature of the COA application process, in which the COA requester prepares and submits the appli cation, then waits for FAA reactions regarding problems or issues, creates problems for challenging field campaigns such as MIZOPEX. Researchers hoping to propose non-standard UAS field campaigns have no way of gauging ahead of time whether FAA will accept certain approaches, and the tell-us-what-you-want-to-do-and-we-will-respond process leads to delays and some confusion.
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