Just a quick update on our previous post covering the Generic rules of the Open Category.

If you remember, in this post we had identified that the CAA were likely to reduce the age requirements from the generic EU rules in order to align with the current situation in the open category (i.e. 13 years) and they will reduce it for the Specific category to 14 years.

They have actually gone a step further and removed the age requirements in these two categories altogether.

That means Articles 9 and 9A of the UAS Implementing Regulation (EU 2019/947) have been deleted completely so there is no minimum age for remote pilots in the Open or Specific categories. One important note, however, is that there remain the requirements for competency (therefore inherently you couldn’t expect a toddler to gain an A2CofC for example) AND the age requirements for Operators remains (i.e. 18 years old).

Happy Flying All!