Online course with Lorenzo Murzilli, how to understand the SORA OSOs, Aerial Cities conference schedule announcement and more!

Hello?again drone enthusiasts, and welcome back to the DroneTalks biweekly newsletter!

We'll kick things off with an exclusive 2-hour online course on the fundamentals of Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) led by the renowned CEO of Murzilli Consulting, Lorenzo Murzilli (also widely known as the father of SORA).

Next, you'll find an article from his senior operational authorisations consultant Aurélie Joy, who provides key insights into the Final Specific Assurance and Integrity Level (SAIL) and Operational Safety Objectives (OSO) for SORA.

Additionally, we have an enlightening interview with the CTO of A2Z Drone Delivery, who explores the critical role of hardware in enabling efficient last-mile UAV deliveries.

Finally, we end with our events by announcing the conference schedule for Aerial Cities 2023, the only VIP invite-only event for decision-makers and providing you with the updated DroneTalks guide to drone events in 2023.

The fundamentals of SORA with Lorenzo Murzilli

Our new online course taught by Lorenzo Murzilli, widely regarded as the?father of SORA, has been broken down into digestible chapters, which makes easy for those look to learn SORA process to gain a strong foundation alongside those who just need a 2-hour refresher.

Chapter highlights include:

• JARUS Introduction
• The SORA process
• The SORA process detailed
• Compliance and cases
• The concept of robustness
• The strategic mitigations
• The ARC and associated mitigations
• Steps 9 and 10: Adjacent area and Safety Portfolio
• The ConOps and Annex I (Glossary)
• Adjacent Airspace & Safety Portfolio detailed

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Step 7 of the SORA methodology: Final specific assurance and integrity level (SAIL) and operational safety objectives (OSO) assignment

The SORA methodology strengthens operational safety at every stage for organisations aiming to implement airborne operations.

Step seven of the SORA involves defining an organisation’s safety assurance and integrity level (SAIL), which provides a collection of operational safety objectives (OSOs) to adhere to.

Each operational safety objective receives a robustness level matching the intricacy and hazard associated with the organisation's intended operation.

This article explains the significance of safety assurance and integrity levels as outlined in Annexe E of the Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems (JARUS) SORA documentation and examines each OSO by illustrating how to interpret them and what their practical implications are.

Read the full article below from Murzilli Consulting's senior consultant for operational authorisations Aurélie Joy Pascual-Werner:

Read here

A2Z Drone Delivery CTO explains the role hardware plays in last-mile UAV deliveries

For industries where any amount of downtime can cost billions and current solutions involve driving a truck around a busy factory floor, every minute correlates directly to capital down the drain.

Drone-based deliveries prove a solution to this, which can replace current intersite logistics methods with point-to-point aerial solutions. This allows their customers to cut out unnecessary downtime that can have a huge savings value and is a provable use case in the current regulatory environment.

In this interview with Evan Hertafeld from A2Z Drone Delivery, he explains how their hardware can make a difference for intersite logistical delivery.

Topics in this interview include:

• How big is the drone winch market?
• Commercial drone delivery and logistics market
• Product launch cycles of a drone winch
• Horizontal growth opportunities

Watch here

Announcing the Aerial Cities 2023 conference schedule!

We have another exciting announcement for Aerial Cities! This time, we’re releasing the official conference schedule for the 8th and the 9th of November.

This includes exciting panels like the following examples:

• Roles and responsibilities of national, regional and local governments regarding the management of aerial cities
• Operating in aerial cities: authorisations, enablers and roadblocks
• From boxes to vertiports: the competition for taking off and landing real estate in aerial cities and landing has just begun
• User spotlight: policing aerial cities
• User spotlight: aerial hospitals
• User spotlight: aerial inspections
• What can we learn from other disruptive industries like e-scooters, AirBnB, etc.
• Increasing autonomy for profitable unit economics

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Professionals in the drone industry know the importance of networking in this niche field. One of the most practical ways to make networking possible is by attending drone-related events and meeting experts in a professional setting.

Events provide an opportunity to learn about drone regulations and advancements while seeing drones in action with demonstrations of drones' navigational ability, long flying times, and noise-reducing propellers.

Hear from industry experts and leaders who share their expertise and acquire critical insights to change your organisational strategy and stay ahead in this continuously growing business.

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The DroneTalks team

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