How to Integrate the Management of Operating Procedures and Crew Training into UAS Development

Already for the prototyping phase of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) development, operating procedures need to be defined and approved by the authorities to conduct flight tests. Especially in this early phase, where the specification and implementation details of the UAS are regularly updated, the operating procedures need to be aligned accordingly. Furthermore, the crew needs to be trained in theoretical and practical courses for these changing procedures to be well prepared for the operation of the aircraft system. In this paper, we show how we integrated the management of operating procedures and crew training into our UAS development process. We describe the development of the procedures and training material, their release management, and the traceability to the related system development artifacts. We also show how we implemented the execution and logging of procedure validation and crew training. Based on automatic reports, we can monitor the validation status as well as the training status of the crew, identify missing validation, and determine when retraining is required. The process and its implementation are demonstrated with exemplary data from our ongoing work.     «

Already for the prototyping phase of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) development, operating procedures need to be defined and approved by the authorities to conduct flight tests. Especially in this early phase, where the specification and implementation details of the UAS are regularly updated, the operating procedures need to be aligned accordingly. Furthermore, the crew needs to be trained in theoretical and practical courses for these changing procedures to be well prepared for the operation o...     »