The UK CAA’s 2026 amendments to UK SORA introduce significant changes to containment requirements. Learn how new thresholds, robustness levels and Annex E affect drone operations.

A guide for UAS designers and manufacturers preparing aircraft for the UK or EU market. It covers SORA v2.5 adoption by the CAA and EASA, design assurance at SAIL 3 and above, the differing review pathways including the UK SAIL Mark and EASA self-declaration, and the evidence pack manufacturers most often underestimate.

UAS manufacturers targeting SAIL 3 and SAIL 4 operations must design for EASA SORA compliance from the outset. This guide explains OSO #5, redundancy expectations, DAL C software assurance, reliability requirements, and EASA’s Design Verification Review process.

Beyond Restoration: Autonomous drones to accelerate woodland recovery. Our role: SORA compliance and heavy-lift drone BVLOS in atypical air environment . Learn how The Drone Office supported SORA compliance and BVLOS authorisation.

What does SORA 2.5 mean for a logistics drone above 3 metres? Higher ground risk, tougher containment requirements, and a SAIL level that affects both your platform design and your operators. This article breaks down the key considerations for dual-use UAS manufacturers.

Learn about SORA containment requirements under UK / SORA drone regulations. Understand the challenge and solutions for medium robustness containment. Expert insights from The Drone Office.

The UK Civil Aviation Authority has released the third edition of CAP 3040 , its policy concept for enabling BVLOS operations in an Atypical Air Environment (AAE) on 27 November 2025. What is an Atypical Air Environment? Atypical Air Environment AAEs are volumes of airspace within which it can be reasonably anticipated that there will be a greatly reduced number of conventionally piloted aircraft due to the close proximity of specific ground infrastructure. AAE is not a ne

Stay up to date with UK drone regulations. Class Marking, Open category, Specific Category, UK SORA. This is a simplified, accessible explanation based on UK CAA publications, that will help both existing industry players looking for an update, and new players in the industry looking for a simple and concise overview of regulations.

When the UK SORA methodology calls for the use of a standard or other Means of Compliance (MoC) acceptable to the CAA—which standards or MoCs is the methodology referring to?

The UK SORA will enter into force on 23 April 2025. SORA stands for Specific Operations Risk Assessment. It’s a structured safety assessment

UK Drone or UAS regulations: Update to the RAE training academies requirements. First policy concepts for SAIL Mark and Flightworthiness

The main UK specificity is the air risk classification flowchart, in particular Class G airspace is considered ARC-c unless proven otherwise

Explore the latest version 2.5 by JARUS of the SORA safety methodology to assess drone or UAS operations.

5 CAA CAPs publications in April - May 2024 impacting drone operations in the specific category

Privileged to spread the word on Skynews about the Future of Flight Action Plan published by the Department for Transport today.

The Specific Operations Risk Assessment SORA is a methodology developed by JARUS to support an operational authorisation in the Specific...

The Joint Authorities for Rulemaking of Unmanned Systems (JARUS), a group of experts from 60+ national aviation authorities and regional...

Security and cybersecurity considerations in updated UK UAS regulations.

First analysis, with a focus on the Open category and to some event the PDRA01. CAP722: https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/cap722 AMC GM:...

In this article, we investigate the existing BVLOS regulation from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) in Australia, to help...