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EASA's Opinion No 06/2026 would drop the open category registration and direct remote identification threshold from 250 grams to 100 grams and require member states to verify operator identity first. The transitional relief decides who has to retrofit.
The CAA's fourth edition of CAP3040 adds a route for running equivalent atypical air environment operations at multiple sites under a single authorisation, with the site-by-site evidence moving to the operator.
A multistate petition filed September 28 targets the single environmental document that now stands in for site-by-site review of drone package delivery. Operators should read the noise data clause and start keeping per-site records.
Canadian drone weather limits are specific: three miles of ground visibility and clear of cloud for BVLOS, no flight with frost or ice on critical surfaces, and lighting conditions for night operations. All three shape a winter schedule.
Recency in Canada is a rolling 24 month requirement attached to each pilot certificate. The free self-paced study programme satisfies it, provided the completed questionnaire is dated and kept.
Liability insurance for small RPAS operations is not a regulatory requirement in Canada, but it is a contract requirement almost everywhere. The limit is the easy part. The exclusions decide the outcome.
Transport Canada's own figures show Level 1 Complex certificates up around 64 per cent since March while the number of schools able to deliver the compulsory ground school grew about five per cent. Capacity, not demand, is the constraint.
The consultation on Remote ID and designated drone airspace closed on 9 September. The published record already answers the retrofit question, which means the useful work now is a fleet inventory rather than a purchase order.
When harvest lags, more acres stay in standing crop, and that changes the timeline for damage claims, inspections and the evidence that supports both.
