Mitigating Airspace and Airport Incursions by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) (LIVE virtual classroom)

About the course

5-day (10 hours) LIVE virtual classroom course

Learn the true dangers of drone strikes and become proficient in global best practices for responding to, and handling, unauthorized or reckless use of unmanned aircraft (UA) / drones in close vicinity of aircraft and airports. With lessons based on example procedures, learn how you can define roles and responsibilities to counteract an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) incident, prepare response plans, and implement local protocols that fit your operation and local regulations.

Course Code: TALP-61-VC

Course format

• The live sessions of this virtual classroom course are delivered by an official IATA Instructor.
• The course will take you approximately 7.5 hours to complete and be held over 3 consecutive days.
• There will be 2 live interactive virtual classroom sessions per day, each session will be 75 minutes.
• The live sessions will require your participation, with multiple Q&A sessions and additional time spent on self-study material including projects, research, additional reading and videos.
• Student performance will be based on an assessment.

Technical requirements

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Prerequisites

• Recommended level is Intermediate.
• The recommended level of language proficiency is ICAO Operational Level 4 for courses in English or the equivalent level for other languages.

How to register

• When you click the Register button, you will be directed to login to your Training Account. Please have your login details ready.
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Virtual venues

We schedule our virtual classroom courses through one of 3 virtual venues, each in a different time zone for your convenience. For more information, please visit our page on virtual classroom timing or contact our Customer Portal.

Please check the exact schedule of each class below (View more details) and click ‘Register’.

What you will learn

Upon completing this course you will be able to:

• Explain the impacts of unauthorized UA and describe why procedures for the detection and response to such events are important
• Identify the tools/steps that can be used for identification and risk assessment of unauthorized UA
• Write and adapt local procedures for the response to unauthorized UA and recovery to normal operations
• Recognize the different technologies that can be used to detect and counter unauthorized UA
• Evaluate how events of unauthorized UA should be used to improve the detection and response procedures

Course content

The key topics that are covered during this course include:

• Classification of different types of events of unauthorized UA and the level of involvement of the different actors
• Methodology and approach for conducting a risk assessment to identify level of response to an unauthorized UA
• How to tailor global model procedures to local processes
• Steps to recover operations at an airport after an unauthorized UA event has been contained
• Regional variations of UAs related regulations
• C-UAS technologies and the pre-requisites to implementation at an airport
• Investigation post events and analysis to improve measures for future events

Who should attend

This course is recommended for:

• Airlines, airports, regulators and ANSPs.

Certificate awarded

An IATA Certificate of Completion is awarded to participants obtaining a grade of 70% or higher on an assessment. A special distinction is awarded to participants obtaining a grade of 90% or higher.