Using Small Unmanned Aircraft (SUA) in HMA

Authors

Andy Smith, Humanitarian Mine Action SpecialistFollow

Abstract

With the growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) within humanitarian mine action (HMA), the need for standardized training is becoming increasingly important to mitigate factors that may otherwise inhibit their wider use. The first formal training course for people in HMA to qualify as small unmanned aircraft (SUA) pilots served as an opportunity to pursue this goal and was held at the MAT Kosovo training centre in September 2017. The instructors were from a U.K. company training to U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) standards for commercial SUA pilots. Although drone and UAV are popular terms to describe all umanned aircraft, the term SUA is used by some civil aviation authorities to describe specifically light- weight models.

Recommended Citation

Smith, Andy (2017) "Using Small Unmanned Aircraft (SUA) in HMA," The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction: Vol. 21 : Iss. 3 , Article 13.
Available at: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cisr-journal/vol21/iss3/13