CANADA IS NUMBER ONE IN NORTH AMERICA!

Figure 12-2 Work Plan
Well folks after some browsing I've discovered that Canada is the current leader in terms of regulations of commercial use UAVs in North America. Whereas the US President has just recently signed a bill to get the FAA to create detailed regulations for commercial use of UAVs, Canada has been working on them since 2008.
Here's a Work Plan extracted from the final report of the UAV Working Group, from the Transport Canada website:
12.2 Work Plan for Complete and Safe Integration into Canadian Airspace: 2012
The Working Group proposes the following Work Plan to achieve complete and safe integration of UAVs into Canadian airspace by the year 2012. The Working Group believes there is an immediate need for the creation of a UAV SFOC Review Working Group. All other Working Groups that are referenced in this Work Plan would be part of a longer-term process to achieve routine operations of UAVs in Canadian airspace.
WORK PLAN
2007:
- Submit Unmanned Air Vehicle Working Group Final Report to Transport Canada Senior management; and
- Approval and creation of a UAV SFOC Review Working Group.
2008:
- Implement registration of UAVs;
- Revise Staff Instructions in accordance with UAV SFOC Review Working Group recommendations and implement additional recommendations (advisory material etc.);
- Have procedures/exemption(s) in place for UAVs operating inside buildings and underground;
- Continue the development of Industry Groups to represent the Canadian UAV Industry to Transport Canada;
- Initiate collaborative effort toward Design Standards; and
- Allocation of dedicated Transport Canada resources.
2009:
- Develop or adopt Airworthiness Design Standards for UAVs with a MTOW not exceeding 150 Kg;
- Creation of a Working Group to deal with UAS-specific components; and
- Create Notices of Proposed Amendments (NPAs) for presentation at CARAC Technical Committee Meetings:
- January 1st – December 30th:
- General Operating and Flight Rules;
- Pilot/Maintainer Qualifications and Training; and
- Maintenance and Flight Authorities.
2010:
- Create NPAs for presentation at CARAC Technical Committee Meetings:
- Completed by December 30th:
- Airworthiness Certification;
- Operating Certificates (new Working Group); and
- New operating rules (e.g., IFR approaches etc.).
- Development of Advisory material / Exemptions - after approval of NPAs
2012:
- Completion – safe airspace integration.
Comment by Dan "HotSeat" Neault on February 23, 2012 at 9:41am Yaaaa us :)

Can someone translate that is plain French? hehe kidding... It only means that we have more laws and regulation around everything because we apparently have money for that but not to fix the bridges and roads... :)
Comment by Francis Pelletier on February 23, 2012 at 12:13pm Dany, je ne crois pas que ça soit une bonne idée de le traduire en francais ;) si tu veux un exemple de ce que je veux dire, va voir le RAC, et compare le à sa version anglophone (CAR's). C'est illisible :P
Comment by Ellison Chan on February 23, 2012 at 12:22pm Voici la meme extrait en francais. Il faut juste de cliquez sur la bouton "francaise". Nous somme billingue au Canada!
12.2 Plan de travail pour une intégration complète et sécuritaire dans l’espace aérien canadien : 2012
Le groupe de travail propose le plan de travail suivant afin d’atteindre une intégration complète et sécuritaire des UAV dans l’espace aérien canadien d’ici 2012. Le groupe de travail croit qu’il est urgent de créer un groupe de travail afin d’examiner le COAS pour les UAV. Tous les autres groupes de travail mentionnés dans le présent plan de travail feraient partie d’un processus à plus long terme visant l’utilisation régulière des UAV dans l’espace aérien canadien.
PLAN DE TRAVAIL
2007 :
2008 :
2009 :
2010 :
2012 :
And UK and Australia are even further ahead, I believe there are language rules here folks.
Comment by Nafru on February 23, 2012 at 1:34pm Dany: Just for you, it is in French too.
(I am sorry, my French is horrible, so break out your Captain Crunch decoder ring.)
I think Canada has been doing a fine job with attempting to get on top of the issues of the UAV's in the Canadian Airspace. I think that one of the drawbacks is that the legislation is so highly dependant on the American laws and that Transport Canada is unwilling to just make a stand and break cleanly away from the FAA imposed model. I would love to see them adopt the Austrailian models here in Canada and open things up a bit more. Its nice to see a timeline, but because there is a nice little graphic never means that there will be anything to come out of it in Canada.
Comment by Ellison Chan on February 23, 2012 at 1:34pm Hey Gary, interesting. Do you have links to the UK and Australia regulations? It'd be interesting to do a comparison. What are these language rules? I don't see any swearing. ;-)
Comment by Nafru on February 23, 2012 at 1:50pm Ellison: Here is the Australian regulations.
(oh and Tabernac is a swear in French, My Bad)
Comment by Nafru on February 23, 2012 at 1:52pm Oh sure. it didnt take the link ROFL. Lets try that again.
http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:PWA::pc=PARTS101
Comment by Ellison Chan on February 23, 2012 at 1:57pm Nafriu Gary's comment was before your 'tabernac', esti. ;-)
(I'm going to have to ban myself.) Thanks for the link!
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