Outdoor operations (bridges Sample Clauses

Outdoor operations (bridges. The case of inspecting electric railway bridges with an RPAS is identical to the demonstrator #4, as the bridge itself may be considered a critical infrastructure. Therefore, in general, all the considerations made for that case still apply here. Anyway, an additional consideration may be done by assuming that the operation is conducted:  under the bridge or over a non-electric railway bridge,  in a non-urban area,  with no possibility to overfly other critical infrastructures, even in case of malfunctions and/or failures,  with no vehicular/train traffic over/under the bridge. In the aforementioned case, the operation may be considered non-critical (by Article 9 of the Italian Regulation), as no critical infrastructure is being overflown. Falling under the category of non-critical operations instead of standard scenarios for critical operations do not have a substantial impact on the declaration/authorization process, as most of the documents to be produced and requirements to be met for the two cases are quite similar, and most of the technical conditions to be met are already “standard” equipment for professional RPAS (e.g. command and control link recovery, geofencing). A difference may be found in the requirements for the pilot, as the qualification for critical (even in standard scenarios) and non-critical operations are different, with different training and proficiency requirements (Art. 21).