Conditions for the implementation of a framework regulatory to the use of rpas in Honduras

Abstract

This article presents the results of an investigation that had as an object of study to know the Conditions for the Implementation of a Regulatory Framework for the Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in Honduras. The research applies a Research - Action process in which the Honduran Civil Aviation Agency (regulatory entity) and the National Autonomous University of Honduras were involved as academic and research entities respectively. The dynamics allowed to elaborate a planning where the advances of the investigation have been used for the modification of the same planning with the mediation of consensus between the parties, which have become investigators and executors of their own planning. The RPAS regulations resulting from the research process presented must take into account safety in the mass use of these devices, as well as their different applications ranging from recreational to work and business, through the broad field of scientific research. The Honduran Civil Aviation Agency (AHAC) is the mediator of the national airspace and coordinated the national regulations, to conceptualize and implement regulations on UAS, making this challenge an opportunity for interagency support by UNAH through the Department of Aeronautical Sciences (DCA), attached to the Faculty of Space Sciences (FACES).