A Challenge provides you with a pathway to seek approval for the trial of your innovative solution, and shape the requirements for future regulations. You can apply to our Challenges, or alternatively propose your own Challenge.
The Regulatory Sandbox
You have developed concepts and conducted research for your novel solution.
You have tested and proved its feasibility in a controlled environment. Now, you want to conduct trials under real-world conditions. But, you are unable to get regulatory approval because your solution does not fit within the scope of current regulations.
Innovative solutions come with many questions in terms of safety, security, and consumer protection. Challenges are designed to answer these questions.
The Regulatory Sandbox provides you with the capability to test and trial your innovative solutions in a safe environment. You will work in partnership with us to explore the viability of your solution. In doing so, you will help us to define the requirements that will guide the approval you need for your trial. You will also help us to shape the future regulations that will support the commercial operations of your innovative solution.
Respond to Challenges
Call for insights: developing a regulatory vision for UK UTM
The CAA Innovation Hub is asking you for insights on UAS or Uncrewed Traffic Management (UTM) regarding our draft vision, a new approach to the name, and how UTM could be deployed in the UK.
To guide this development, we have drafted a vision for UTM in the UK.
This work is non-exhaustive and is intended to provide context. In creating this vision, we have also reflected on the name “UAS/Uncrewed Traffic Management”.
We would love to hear your feedback on our draft vision, and on the considerations for the name.
See CAP 2292 for more information
Detect and Avoid Challenge: Sandbox Announcement
The
CAA Innovation Hub is launching a series of Technology Demonstrators aiming to
investigate key technologies that can be used as part of Detect and Avoid
solutions for Beyond Visual Line of Sight RPAS operations. Detect and Avoid Challenge: Sandbox Announcement presents the objectives of this challenge and provides an overview of the three technology demonstrators that will be launched.
Future Air Mobility: Regulatory Sandbox Challenge
What are the requirements for the approval of Future Air Mobility operations? How can the development of related innovations be supported through testing and trials to inform regulatory frameworks that will enable commercial operations?
Future air mobility propositions involving novel ways of transporting passengers, goods or services from A-B – for example Urban Air Mobility (UAM) concepts – have continued to develop. This has been driven by large-scale investments in new aircraft designs, research into future urban mobility and integrated transport networks, and commercial partnerships between equipment and technology firms in aviation. The range of use cases is also expanding; from airport shuttles and on-demand inter-city services to regional, intra-city and rural services. Whilst existing aviation regulations can enable the exploration and trialling of innovative future air mobility solutions, they do not yet enable commercial operations or fully provide a scalable, proven certification approach.
We recognise there is a role for the CAA to play in addition to this work. Specifically, in identifying and supporting answers to regulatory challenges and working alongside Government, industry and public stakeholders.