OpenSKY

Flying For Enterteinment

The ‘open’ category addresses the lower-risk civil drone operations in , where safety is ensured provided the civil drone operator complies with the relevant requirements for its intended operation. This category is subdivided into three subcategories, namely A1, A2 and A3. Operational risks in the ‘open’ category are considered low and, therefore, no operational authorisation is required before starting a flight, unless its flown profesionally or beyond conditoins mentioned in ANO.

Flying For Professional Works

The ‘specific’ category covers riskier civil drone operations, where safety is ensured by the drone operator by obtaining an operational authorisation from the national competent authority before starting the operation. To obtain the operational authorisation, the drone operator is required to conduct a risk assessment, which will determine the requirements necessary for the safe operation of the civil drone(s).
If one of the requirements of the "Open" category is not met, the flight falls into the "Specific" category and approval from CAAB must be obtained before operation . The "Specific" category also allows flights outside of the visual range (Beyond Visual Line of Sight, BVLOS), flights over populated areas . Use cases for this category can be camera flights over cities or overflights over infrastructure or Survey mission or even photo-cinematographic mission are examples of this category.

Flying For Transporting People & Goods

In the ‘certified’ category, the safety risk is considerably high; therefore, the certification of the drone operator and its drone, as well as the licensing of the remote pilot(s), is always required to ensure safety. The “Certified” category is intended for drone operations where the risk involved is comparable to manned aviation. Among other things, this provides for certification of the aircraft. In any case, the following flights fall into the "Certified" category:
transportation of people
Transport of dangerous goods
Flights over crowds with drones over 3 meters tall

The ‘open’ category is the home for most leisure drones activity and low risk commercial activity. As a drone operator or remote pilot, it is important that you know how to fly your drone both safely and legally. This is the information you need to enjoy flying your drone in a way that does not pose a risk to any other aircraft or people. beside this to extend beyond the limitation you must take fligh authorization with following requirements
The drone must be registered
The drone operator has to be registered.
The drone pilot needs a proof of competency.
The drone must be kept in visual line of sight (VLOS) at all times.
The drone is flown at a height of no more than 120 meters above ground level.
The drone must not carry any dangerous goods or drop any material.
Fly within line of Sight unless having BVLOS Authorization
Do not fly over people, congested area, airport aea and militery area
You as drone operator are required to conduct a risk assessment of the intended operation by using the methodology known as SORA

Flying For Transporting People & Goods

Drone operators not holding a valid third party insurance are liable for any damages incurred as a result of their operations.
All personnel directly involved in the operations are competent to perform their tasks and the UAS will be operated only by remote pilots with the appropriate levels of competency.
Drone operators and pilots should be aware that the collection of images of identifiable individuals, even inadvertently, when using cameras mounted on small drones, may be subject to the Data Protection Act.
Drone operators must be aware of their responsibilities regarding operations from private land and any requirements to obtain the appropriate permission before operating from a particular site. In particular, they must ensure that they observe the relevant trespass laws and do not unwittingly commit a trespass whilst conducting a flight.
Manned Aviation shall have priority over any drone operation.
Rules of the Air shall also apply with other drones in the vicinity as potentially more than one drone operator may be operating in the same area at the same time.
A submitted self-declaration or a permit of operation issued by this Authority with the pre-set written conditions are without prejudice to all other applicable laws and regulations and compliance.
Permit to fly cannot be construed as a permit to film individuals or property without consent or to transport items by drone.
Drone operators must be reachable on the mobile number provided throughout the drone operation, and must ensure that their mobile phone is charged.

Model Aircraft

Pilots of model aircraft are generally more interested in the pleasure of the flight and in directly controlling the aircraft’s flight surfaces.Pilots of model aircraft are passionate aviators and normally quite well informed about the safety rules, especially when they operate within the framework of a model aircraft club or association. therefore:
In the case of model aircraft, if the model aircraft club/association has an authorization from TM-CAD, then the club may register itself and all its members will be associated with that registration.
Otherwise, members of the club are required to register themselves individually on tmcad.idronect.com.
If the model aircraft flights will only be conducted within the Ta’ Qali/Ħal Far bubble, for which the club members are already insured, then there is no need for additional insurance. On the other hand, a valid third party insurance will be required for any model aircraft flights outside of these bubble.

Drone Racing and Flying Drones with Goggles (FPV)

CAAB regulations do not distinguish between FPV drones and normal drones for the purposes of registration.
FPV flights may be conducted in the open category without keeping direct eye contact with the drone, provided that the remote pilot is accompanied by a UA observer who keeps direct visual contact with the drone, and who will immediately communicate with the remote pilot to take action accordingly if required.
Normally drone races are organised by clubs and associations, which may hold operational authorisations from the NAA covering the organisation of such events.
Drone races not within a club or association and with no spectators (‘uninvolved persons’) fall under the ‘open’ category and can operate under subcategory A3.
If there are spectators, the operation falls into the ‘specific’ category and an authorisation from the National Aviation Authority is required.

Become UAS Training Provider

To provide remote pilot licence (RePL) training, you'll need to hold a remotely piloted aircraft operator's certificate (ReOC) that authorises remote pilot training. An Authorised remote pilot training organisation shall ensure strict compliance with the requirements specified by the ANO on the OpenSKY platform in respect of training, syllabus, infrastructure, instructors. Beside UAOC procedure, traininng provie shall submit following
Maintaining and managing a documentation system,
demonstrating training syllabus, sample resources, checklists,
Maintaining and managing a required qualified instrucor for theoritcal and practical training
student and instructor course and assessment material accessible by the CAAB;

Training standards

The training must meet standards identified in ANO on UAS. This makes sure that all trainers deliver standardised and high-quality training that covers:
the relevant aeronautical knowledge standards
the relevant practical competency standards
an aeronautical knowledge exam
flight testing
administrative requirements.