Factory-installed limits on access to protected zones, custodial sentences and legal changes to permit hijacking of drones among vital measures called for to curb aerial threat to safety, privacy and flights
The next step required in this process, the publication by the European Union Authority for Air Safety of certain technical requirements, so that manufacturers can set about complying with them, is expected to take place by the end of this year, according to Julie Garland, founder and chief executive of Avtrain, a drone training business.
A few weeks ago, as part of the effort to deter people from misusing drones, a statutory instrument gave An Garda Síochána the power to prosecute offenders, including collecting evidence and sending files to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Previously, enforcement of the law was the preserve of the IAA.
What the authority wants is the ability to “effectively seize drones and bring them down, or that someone can. It does not necessarily have to be us. In London they have the capability to bring a drone down. So something like that would be the next step.”Airports around Europe and in the UK are using such solutions, without the technology itself interfering with flight operations, he said.
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