Denis Ovchinnikov, Director for Accounting, Service Development, and Infrastructure for Unmanned Aviation Systems of the State ATM Corporation, spoke about the legislative innovations for the development of domestic unmanned systems and aviation at the international forum of digital technologies in transport and logistics, "Digital Transportation-2024."
As the official noted in the presentation, the client journey in the unmanned systems sector currently takes more than a month. From the conditional purchase of a drone to its first flight, it takes an average of 46 days for a Russian citizen. Moreover, most of this time is spent waiting for flight permits from local authorities. Currently, there is no unified automated system in the country that would work with the registration of drones and reflect the situation in the air in a particular area at any given moment.
The situation with the registration of aircraft and their conflict-free presence in the air is hoped to be corrected with the help of a number of domestic digital services.
In particular, flight planning will soon become available on a one-stop-shop basis. This system will include not only drones, but also small aviation and civil manned aviation.
A unified resource for monitoring drones will help the state monitor safety in the sky, and ordinary users will be presented with up-to-date information on geofencing and will help avoid unintentional violations of flight boundaries in prohibited areas.
The digital service SPPI (flight plan submission system via the Internet) will simplify not only the registration of drones in local governments and law enforcement agencies, but also the flights themselves.
For example, in the web version and mobile version of SPPI, it will be possible not only to register and apply for a flight, but also to find out about current weather data in the area of the planned flight.
Also, the new digital service FGIS "Aviasert" will soon be fully operational. It will significantly reduce the certification time for aviation equipment of various categories: from drones to airplanes.
In 2025, FGIS "Aviasert" will be certified, and developers will not be required to physically visit Rosaviatsiya. It will be possible to simply upload all documents to this system, which will reduce the number of days for certification.
After these measures, it is assumed that by 2026 in Russia, the process of registering a drone after purchase will take only 6 days. Also, the certification process for aviation equipment and legal entities - developers and manufacturers of domestic aviation equipment - will become faster, clearer and more transparent.
