DSNA reports on drone airspace integration findings

France's DSNA stated (15-Jul-2016) through testing drone airspace integration, it has found drones have "the same behaviour as a small plane of the general aviation type", and that the controllers advise against use of "slowflying" drones at an airport with heterogeneous traffic demand exceeding 20 movements per hour. DSNA stated contingency procedures, including radio failure, GPS failure, control-command link failure and emergency landings, must be "standardised at the ICAO level, that the flight plan format has to be adapted for drones specificity, and that a satisfactory technology has to be developed to enable a control-command link to be set up in the bands allocated to the aeronautical mobile service". [more - original PR]