Flight Safety System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Operation

The Range Safety Group RSG investigated options other than destruct for unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs flying in the National Airspace NAS over populated areas and outside the range of local line-of-sight LOS flight termination system FTS transmitters. The objective of this special report was to develop an RCC standard for over-the-horizon OTH safe recovery of UAVs. The task considered requirements for global monitoring of UAV critical safety information and implementation of hazard control options such as reset flight control computer, uplink new route, change altitude, and override controls for UAV safe recovery operation.