African Drone

[KZNChris]

I was going to keep quite since it appears little has changed since I last visited here ?
( Except I see some people that were huge moaners re SACAA appear to now -- since they achieved their registration and licensing -- be singing a slightly different tune )

Has anyone had a look at this site ?

https://africandrone.org

Very interesting as well as the associated "Unequal Scenes"

Seems some foreigners can get right what South Africans cannot ?
I just wonder if all the SA footage is actually legally obtained ?

They do have a helpful "Education" page
I do wonder though how many RPAS / UAV training establishments in SA make a fully detailed pilot training guide freely available ?
Perhaps in this we are also behind the rest of Africa ?

Anyway -- Mr edwoodza how is life now with your newly minted ROC ? ( are you employing ? )

[Trevor Duane]

As per his sales update their Ops manual was approved. No ROC license currently.

Here is a list of all current ROC holders http://www.caa.co.za/Pages/RPAS/RPAS%20operators.aspx

Anglo Operations (Pty) Ltd – CORPORATE operations only
BAC Helicopters CC
Compact Aerial Services (Pty) Ltd
Darkwing Aerials (Pty) Ltd
DC Geomatics (Pty) Ltd
Drones Ops (Pty) Ltd
FC Hamman Films CC
Flightpoint (Pty) Ltd
Fortune Air (Pty) Ltd
Gillcor CC
LS Multi Copter Projects and Services (Pty) Ltd
Premier Aviation CC
Public Display Technologies (Pty) Ltd
Rocketmine (Pty) Ltd
Salaria CC
Scarab Industries CC
Skybot CC
Skyhigh Solutions
Skyhook (Pty) Ltd
Terra Survey (Pty) Ltd
Timeslice Cinematography
UAV & Drone Solutions (Pty) Ltd
UAV Industries (Pty) Ltd
UAV Technologies (Pty) Ltd
Visual Air Productions (Pty) Ltd
VPM SURVEYS CC

[KZNChris]

As per his sales update their Ops manual was approved. No ROC license currently.
Here is a list of all current ROC holders http://www.caa.co.za/Pages/RPAS/RPAS%20operators.aspx

Thanks for the list
It would be a most helpful addition if the dates of the granting of the ROC could be included / added

[edwoodza]

Approval of OM is one thing.
But we seen its another 6 months plus from there to inspection if not more.
and we ourselves currently at 2 months now since inspection/rla and nothing happening and documents being lost in JHB.
its an epic cluster at best

so the guys saying they have OM approved are months/year away from anything really (remember caa shut down in nov)