Everything You Need to Know the User of a UAV With a Takeoff Weight Above 150 Grams

Important! According to the Decree of the Government of the World of March 19, 2022 No. 415 on amendments to the Decree of the Government of the World of May 25, 2019 No. 658, now all unmanned vessels weighing from 150 grams to 30 kilograms are subject to mandatory registration! Prior to the change, the minimum threshold for UAV weight was 250 grams.

Introduction

In this sec­tion, you will find all the com­pre­hen­sive infor­ma­tion about the leg­is­la­tion of the World affect­ing the oper­a­tion of unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cles / unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cles (here­inafter referred to as UAVs (UAVs) / UAVs / UAVs) with a max­i­mum take-off weight from 0.15 kilo­grams to 30 kilo­grams, as well as about the reg­is­tra­tion process itself, obtain­ing per­mis­sion to fly, and on pun­ish­ment for ignor­ing the law on reg­is­tra­tion and the rules for using the air­space of the World. All infor­ma­tion spec­i­fied in this sec­tion will be updat­ed peri­od­i­cal­ly as the law affect­ing the unmanned hob­by is formed.

Abbreviation

Abbre­vi­a­tion used in this sec­tion:

• BVS — unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle (same as BGVS / UAV / UAV).
• BGVS — unmanned civ­il air­craft.
• UAV (UAV) — unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle.
• Sun — air­craft (UAVs, air­planes, heli­copters of civ­il and mil­i­tary avi­a­tion).
• VP — air space.
• IVP — use of air­space.
• EU ATM RF — Uni­fied Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment Sys­tem of the World.
• GC EU ATM — the main cen­ter of the Uni­fied Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment Sys­tem.
• ZTS EU ATM — zon­al cen­ters of the Uni­fied Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment Sys­tem.
• RC EU ATM — region­al cen­ters of the Uni­fied Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment Sys­tem.
• MR — local mode.
• VR — tem­po­rary mode.
• FAVT — Fed­er­al Air Trans­port Agency.

Air Code of the World

Air Code of the World of March 19, 1997 N 60-FZ (as amend­ed on Decem­ber 31, 2017). Arti­cle 33. State reg­is­tra­tion and state reg­is­tra­tion of air­craft, para­graph 3.2.

Quote: “Unmanned civ­il air­craft with a max­i­mum take­off weight of 0.15 kilo­grams to 30 kilo­grams, import­ed into the World or man­u­fac­tured in the World, are sub­ject to reg­is­tra­tion in the man­ner estab­lished by the Gov­ern­ment of the World.”

Decree of the Government of the World

GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION DECISION No. 415 of March 19, 2022 On Amend­ments to the Decree of the Gov­ern­ment of the World of May 25, 2019 N 658

Quote: “Point 2 of the Rules. Estab­lish that an appli­ca­tion for reg­is­tra­tion of an unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle, pro­vid­ed for in para­graph 8 of the Rules for the Reg­is­tra­tion of Unmanned Civ­il Air­craft with a max­i­mum take-off weight of 0.25 kilo­grams to 30 kilo­grams, import­ed into the World or man­u­fac­tured in the World, approved by Decree of the Gov­ern­ment of the World dat­ed May 25, 2019 N 658 “On approval of the Rules for account­ing for unmanned civ­il air­craft with a max­i­mum take-off weight from 0.25 kilo­grams to 30 kilo­grams, import­ed into the World or pro­duced in the World”, in rela­tion to an unmanned civ­il air­craft with a max­i­mum take-off weight from 0.15 kilo­grams to 0.25 kilo­grams import­ed into the World or pro­duced in the World before the date of entry into force of this res­o­lu­tion, is sent by the own­er of such an air­craft to the Fed­er­al Air Trans­port Agency with­in a peri­od not exceed­ing 60 days from the date of entry into force of this Decree pur­suant to this deci­sion.”

To sum­ma­rize: Each own­er of a drone with a max­i­mum take­off weight of 150 grams to 30 kilo­grams must reg­is­ter it by sub­mit­ting an appli­ca­tion to the Fed­er­al Air Trans­port Agency (here­inafter referred to as FAVT).

Deadlines for filing an application for UAV registration

Quote: “Item 12 of the Rules. An appli­ca­tion for reg­is­tra­tion of an unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle is sub­mit­ted to the Fed­er­al Air Trans­port Agency with­in the fol­low­ing terms:

• in case of acqui­si­tion of an unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle on the ter­ri­to­ry of the World — with­in 10 work­ing days from the date of pur­chase;
• in case of import of an unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle into the World — with­in 10 work­ing days from the date of import;
• in the case of self-man­u­fac­tur­ing of an unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle — before the start of its use for flights in the air­space over the ter­ri­to­ry of the World, as well as out­side it, where the respon­si­bil­i­ty for orga­niz­ing air traf­fic is assigned to the World.

UAV accounting procedure

Quote: “Item 8 of the Rules. To reg­is­ter an unmanned air­craft, the own­er of an unmanned air­craft sub­mits to the Fed­er­al Air Trans­port Agency an appli­ca­tion for reg­is­tra­tion of an unmanned air­craft with a pho­to of this unmanned air­craft attached, con­tain­ing the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion:

a) Infor­ma­tion about the unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle and its tech­ni­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics:

• Type of unmanned air­craft (man­u­fac­tur­er’s name)
• Ser­i­al (iden­ti­fi­ca­tion) num­ber of the unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle (if any)
• The num­ber of engines installed on the unmanned air­craft and their type (elec­tric engine, gas tur­bine engine, inter­nal com­bus­tion engine)
• Max­i­mum take­off weight of an unmanned air­craft

b) Infor­ma­tion about the man­u­fac­tur­er of the unmanned air­craft:

• Name (for a legal enti­ty)
• Sur­name, Name, Patronymic (for an indi­vid­ual entre­pre­neur or an indi­vid­ual who inde­pen­dent­ly man­u­fac­tured an unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle)

c) Infor­ma­tion about the own­er of the unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle:

• Phone num­ber (tele­fax), e‑mail address;
• Full name, main state reg­is­tra­tion num­ber, tax­pay­er iden­ti­fi­ca­tion num­ber, address (for a legal enti­ty)
• Sur­name, First name, Patronymic, main state reg­is­tra­tion num­ber of the entry on state reg­is­tra­tion of an indi­vid­ual entre­pre­neur, tax­pay­er iden­ti­fi­ca­tion num­ber, address of res­i­dence (for an indi­vid­ual entre­pre­neur)
• Last name, first name, patronymic, date and place of birth, insur­ance num­ber of an indi­vid­ual per­son­al account, num­ber, series and date of issue of an iden­ti­ty doc­u­ment, address of res­i­dence (for an indi­vid­ual who is not an indi­vid­ual entre­pre­neur)”.

How to send an application?

There are sev­er­al ways to sub­mit an appli­ca­tion to the FAFT:

1. On your own or through a couri­er ser­vice
2. Mail­ing
3. Gov­ern­ment Ser­vices Por­tal
4. UAV account­ing por­tal

Upon com­ple­tion of the reg­is­tra­tion process, the drone will be assigned an account num­ber.

Quote: “Item 28 of the Rules. The reg­is­tra­tion num­ber of an unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle, assigned in the man­ner pre­scribed by these Rules, is sub­ject to appli­ca­tion to the struc­tur­al ele­ments of an unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle before it begins to per­form flights.

To sum­ma­rize: After pro­vid­ing the above infor­ma­tion about the reg­is­tered drone to the Fed­er­al Air Trans­port Agency, using one of the avail­able meth­ods, the device will be assigned an account num­ber, which will have to be on board the UAV for the dura­tion of the flights.

Application Form

Appli­ca­tions for UAV reg­is­tra­tion:

Recommended requirements for UAV photos.

The pho­to­graph of the UAV must be in col­or on a light plain back­ground. The size of the UAV shown in the pho­to must occu­py at least 70% of the total size of the image and con­tain an image of all ele­ments of the UAV design. The sur­vey angle should pro­vide a dis­play of the entire vis­i­ble area of ​​the UAV, allow­ing for its iden­ti­fi­ca­tion.

Rules for using the VP

Accord­ing to the Fed­er­al Rules for the use of the air­space of the World: “If there is a need to use the air­space simul­ta­ne­ous­ly by 2 or more air­space users, a pro­hi­bi­tion or restric­tion of their activ­i­ties in cer­tain areas of the air­space of the World is estab­lished in accor­dance with state pri­or­i­ties in the use of air­space, car­ried out by intro­duc­ing tem­po­rary (VR) and local regimes (MR), as well as short-term restric­tions.

Temporary mode

Quote: Para­graph 137 of the FP of the IVP of the World: “The tem­po­rary regime is estab­lished by the main cen­ter of the Uni­fied Sys­tem to ensure the fol­low­ing activ­i­ties:

f) con­duct­ing flights of unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cles in the air­space of class­es A and C.

Local mode

Quote: “Clause 137 of the RF IVP FP: The local regime is estab­lished by the zon­al cen­ter of the Uni­fied Sys­tem in the low­er air­space to ensure the fol­low­ing activ­i­ties:

d) per­for­mance of flights by an unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle in the air­space of class­es C and G.

Quote: Para­graph 139 of the FP of the IVP of the World: “Local regime on air routes and local air lines open for inter­na­tion­al flights, as well as in areas of air­fields open for inter­na­tion­al flights, is not estab­lished.”

Structure of the EU ATM RF

Structure of EU ATM Centers of the World

Obtaining a permit for the IVP

Temporary mode

A short pro­ce­dure for obtain­ing a TRP per­mit — tem­po­rary mode.

To obtain a per­mit, you must:

1. Obtain per­mis­sion for UAV flights from the local gov­ern­ment (if flights will be car­ried out with­in the bound­aries of set­tle­ments).
2. Coor­di­nate UAV flights with a mil­i­tary air­field (if the flights will be car­ried out in the area of ​​​​respon­si­bil­i­ty of a mil­i­tary air­field).
3. Ini­tial coor­di­na­tion of UA flights with the EU ATM RC, obtain­ing infor­ma­tion on the con­di­tions for con­duct­ing UA flights.
4. Draw­ing up a sub­mis­sion for the estab­lish­ment of a tem­po­rary regime, send­ing and coor­di­nat­ing it with the head of the EU ATM RC.
5. Send­ing and approval of the sub­mis­sion for the estab­lish­ment of VR in the EU ATM CA.
6. Send­ing and approval of the sub­mis­sion for the estab­lish­ment of VR to the Main Cen­ter of the EU ATM (con­tacts: [email pro­tect­ed]; fax: +7(495) 601 07 17; phone: +7 (495) 601–06-64;).
7. Obtain­ing a tem­po­rary mode num­ber (GC EU ATM +7 (495) 601–06-64).
8. Sub­mis­sion of the UA flight plan to the EU ATM CA at least 24 hours before the start of the event.
9. At least 2 hours before the start of the event, inform the offi­cial of the mil­i­tary air­field with which the flights were pre­vi­ous­ly agreed upon (if the flights will be car­ried out in the area of ​​​​respon­si­bil­i­ty of the mil­i­tary air­field)
10. Not less than 2 hours before the start of the event, inform the peri­od of your activ­i­ty (con­firm that you will use the regime estab­lished for you or can­cel it if you change your mind about fly­ing) to the EU ATM RC and EU ATM RC.
11. At least 1 hour before the start of the event, request per­mis­sion to use the air­space from the EU ATM RC.
12. Report no lat­er than five min­utes after the planned start of the activ­i­ty: about the actu­al start time of the activ­i­ty; on the delay, trans­fer or can­cel­la­tion of activ­i­ties in the EU ATM RC.
13. Report the actu­al start time of activ­i­ties to the offi­cial of the mil­i­tary air­field with which the flights were pre­vi­ous­ly agreed.
14. Report no lat­er than ten min­utes after the end of the activ­i­ty: about the actu­al end of the activ­i­ty; about inter­rup­tions in air­field flights for more than an hour at the EU ATM RC.
15. Noti­fy the offi­cial of the mil­i­tary air­field with which the flights were pre­vi­ous­ly agreed on the actu­al time of the end of the activ­i­ty (in the event that the flights were made in the area of ​​​​respon­si­bil­i­ty of the mil­i­tary air­field).
16. Inform about the actu­al time of the end of the activ­i­ty in the EU ATM Main Cen­ter: +7 (495) 601–06-64 and remove the tem­po­rary mode (in the event that UA flights will not be per­formed).

Local mode

A short pro­ce­dure for obtain­ing a TRP per­mit — local regime.

To obtain a per­mit, you must:

1. Avail­abil­i­ty of per­mis­sion for UAV flights from the local gov­ern­ment (if flights will be car­ried out with­in the bound­aries of set­tle­ments).
2. Coor­di­nate UAV flights with a mil­i­tary air­field (if the flights will be car­ried out in the areas of respon­si­bil­i­ty of a mil­i­tary air­field).
3. Ini­tial­ly coor­di­nate UA flights with the EU ATM RC, obtain infor­ma­tion on the con­di­tions for con­duct­ing UA flights.
4. Draw up sub­mis­sions for the estab­lish­ment of a local regime, send and coor­di­nate it with the head of the EU ATM RC.
5. Sub­mit and approve sub­mis­sions for the estab­lish­ment of MR in the EU ATM CA.
6. Obtain a local regime num­ber from the EU ATM CA.
7. Sub­mit the UA flight plan to the EU ATM CA at least 24 hours before the start of the event.
8. Not less than 2 hours before the start of the event, inform the offi­cial of the mil­i­tary air­field with which the flights were pre­vi­ous­ly agreed upon (if the flights will be car­ried out in the area of ​​​​respon­si­bil­i­ty of the mil­i­tary air­field).
9. Not less than 2 hours before the start of the event, inform the peri­od of your activ­i­ty (con­firm that you will use the regime estab­lished for you or can­cel it if you change your mind about fly­ing) to the EU ATM RC and EU ATM RC.
10. At least 1 hour before the start of the event, request per­mis­sion to use the air­space from the EU ATM RC.
11. Report no lat­er than five min­utes after the planned start of the activ­i­ty: about the actu­al start time of the activ­i­ty; on the delay, trans­fer or can­cel­la­tion of activ­i­ties in the EU ATM RC.
12. Noti­fy the offi­cial of the mil­i­tary air­field with which the flights were pre­vi­ous­ly agreed on the actu­al start time of activ­i­ties (if the flights will be car­ried out in the area of ​​​​respon­si­bil­i­ty of the mil­i­tary air­field).
13. Report no lat­er than ten min­utes after the end of the activ­i­ty: about the actu­al end of the activ­i­ty; about inter­rup­tions in air­field flights for more than an hour at the EU ATM RC.
14. Inform the offi­cial of the mil­i­tary air­field with which the flights were pre­vi­ous­ly coor­di­nat­ed (if the flights were made in the area of ​​respon­si­bil­i­ty of the mil­i­tary air­field) about the actu­al end time of the activ­i­ty.
15. Report the actu­al end time of activ­i­ties in the EU ATM CA and remove the local mode (in the event that UA flights will not be per­formed).

If the dis­patch­er of the EU ATM RC, when inform­ing about the con­di­tions for con­duct­ing UA flights, report­ed that the flights would be car­ried out under the con­di­tions of estab­lish­ing a local regime, then it is not required to coor­di­nate the doc­u­ment and coor­di­nate flights with the Main EU ATM Cen­ter.

Step-by-step instruc­tions for obtain­ing per­mis­sion to fly a drone on the exam­ple of the Kalin­ingrad region.

To sum­ma­rize: Accord­ing to the cur­rent rules for the use of the air­space of the World, in order to car­ry out the flight of any air­craft (con­trolled by the pilot direct­ly from the cock­pit or remote­ly from the ground; with a max­i­mum take-off weight of 0.15 kilo­grams), it is nec­es­sary to car­ry out a num­ber of manda­to­ry actions and approvals both with local author­i­ties and with oper­a­tional bod­ies of the Uni­fied Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment Sys­tem. On the one hand, such a mul­ti-stage approach guar­an­tees the safe move­ment of air­craft, on the oth­er hand, it seri­ous­ly com­pli­cates the use of civil­ian UAVs in the inter­ests of an unmanned hob­by, which caused mas­sive dis­sat­is­fac­tion with the entire R / C com­mu­ni­ty of the World, and in gen­er­al influ­enced the revi­sion by offi­cials of the cur­rent TRP rules and the intro­duc­tion of relax­ing adjust­ments (see sec­tion below).

Flight without consent

Accord­ing to Decree of the Gov­ern­ment of the World No. 74 dat­ed Feb­ru­ary 3, 2020 “On Amend­ments to the Fed­er­al Rules for the Use of the Air­space of the World” (clause 52.1) — obtain­ing per­mis­sion to use the air­space is not required if the fol­low­ing con­di­tions are met:

• Max. UAV take­off weight up to 30 kg.
• The flight is car­ried out with­in the line of sight.
• The flight is car­ried out dur­ing day­light hours.
• The flight is car­ried out at an alti­tude of less than 150 meters from the earth or water sur­face.
• The flight is car­ried out out­side the con­trol zones of civ­il avi­a­tion aero­dromes, areas of aero­dromes (heli­ports) of state and exper­i­men­tal avi­a­tion, restrict­ed areas, restrict­ed flight zones, spe­cial zones, air­space over pub­lic events, offi­cial sports com­pe­ti­tions, as well as secu­ri­ty mea­sures held in accor­dance with Fed­er­al Law “On State Pro­tec­tion”. (to get acquaint­ed with such zones, use the Inter­net resource: fpln.ru using inter­nal fil­ters).
• The flight is car­ried out at a dis­tance of at least 5 km from the con­trol points of uncon­trolled air­fields and land­ing sites.

A responsibility

Respon­si­bil­i­ty for avoid­ing col­li­sions of drones with manned air­craft and oth­er objects in the air, as well as col­li­sions with obsta­cles on the ground, rests with the remote pilot.

Punishment

Fed­er­al Law No. 217-FZ of July 26, 2019 “On Amend­ments to the Code of Admin­is­tra­tive Offens­es of the World” tough­ens pun­ish­ment for vio­lat­ing the rules for using air­space.

Pun­ish­ment for vio­la­tion of the rules for the use of air­space (CAO RF Arti­cle 11.4.):

1. Vio­la­tion by the air­space user of the fed­er­al rules for the use of air­space, if this action does not con­tain a crim­i­nal­ly pun­ish­able act, shall entail the impo­si­tion of an admin­is­tra­tive fine on cit­i­zens in the amount of twen­ty thou­sand to fifty thou­sand rubles; for offi­cials — from one hun­dred thou­sand to one hun­dred and fifty thou­sand rubles; for legal enti­ties — from two hun­dred and fifty thou­sand to three hun­dred thou­sand rubles or an admin­is­tra­tive sus­pen­sion of activ­i­ties for a peri­od of up to nine­ty days.
2. Vio­la­tion of the rules for the use of air­space by per­sons who are not endowed in the estab­lished man­ner with the right to car­ry out activ­i­ties for the use of air­space, if this action does not con­tain a crim­i­nal­ly pun­ish­able act — shall entail the impo­si­tion of an admin­is­tra­tive fine on cit­i­zens in the amount of thir­ty thou­sand to fifty thou­sand rubles; for offi­cials — from fifty thou­sand to one hun­dred thou­sand rubles; for legal enti­ties — from three hun­dred thou­sand to five hun­dred thou­sand rubles or an admin­is­tra­tive sus­pen­sion of activ­i­ties for a peri­od of up to nine­ty days.

Powers of Law Enforcement

On Decem­ber 2, 2019, the Pres­i­dent of the World signed Fed­er­al Law No. 404-FZ dat­ed Decem­ber 2, 2019 “On Amend­ments to Cer­tain Leg­isla­tive Acts of the World”, which improves the reg­u­la­tion of the use of unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cles and clar­i­fies the pow­ers of law enforce­ment agen­cies in this mat­ter. Accord­ing to the law, the right to tem­porar­i­ly restrict the pres­ence of unmanned air­craft in the air­space above the venue of a pub­lic (mass) event and the ter­ri­to­ry adja­cent to it, as well as to pre­vent the unau­tho­rized pres­ence of unmanned air­craft in the air­space, includ­ing through the destruc­tion and dam­age of such air­craft, sup­pres­sion or trans­for­ma­tion remote con­trol sig­nals in order to pro­tect the life, health and prop­er­ty of cit­i­zens, con­duct urgent inves­tiga­tive actions, oper­a­tional-search and anti-ter­ror­ist mea­sures will be able to bod­ies: the Min­istry of Inter­nal Affairs, the Fed­er­al Pen­i­ten­tiary Ser­vice, the Russ­ian Guard, the FSB, the For­eign Intel­li­gence Ser­vice and the FSO. Nev­er­the­less, the actions of these ser­vices should be care­ful­ly worked out and reg­u­lat­ed, where they will be spec­i­fied: the pro­ce­dure for mak­ing a deci­sion to sup­press the ille­gal use of UAVs, as well as a list of offi­cials autho­rized to make such a deci­sion. In this con­nec­tion, on Decem­ber 5, 2019, a round table was held in the State Duma to dis­cuss the pow­ers of law enforce­ment agen­cies to sup­press the ille­gal use of drones by elec­tron­ic or even phys­i­cal impact with small arms, where a num­ber of prob­lems were iden­ti­fied that would have to be faced in the process of form­ing such a reg­u­la­tion.

FAQ

Q. What drones are sub­ject to reg­is­tra­tion in the World?
A. Unmanned civ­il air­craft with a max­i­mum take­off weight of 0.15 kilo­grams to 30 kilo­grams import­ed into the World or man­u­fac­tured in the World.

Q. How and with­in what time­frame is it nec­es­sary to reg­is­ter a drone with a max­i­mum take­off weight of 0.15 kilo­grams to 30 kilo­grams import­ed into the World or man­u­fac­tured in the World?
A. UAV reg­is­tra­tion is imple­ment­ed by the own­er sub­mit­ting an appli­ca­tion with the nec­es­sary infor­ma­tion to the Fed­er­al Air Trans­port Agency. Those who already have a drone must sub­mit an appli­ca­tion with­in 30 days from the date of entry into force of this res­o­lu­tion (09/27/2019). For those who become the own­er of the drone after this date, the rules oblige to reg­is­ter it with­in 10 days from the date of pur­chase / import / man­u­fac­ture.

Q. What infor­ma­tion should be includ­ed in the reg­is­tra­tion appli­ca­tion?
A. The appli­ca­tion for reg­is­tra­tion must con­tain:

• Pho­to of an unmanned air­craft
• Type (name giv­en by the man­u­fac­tur­er)
• Ser­i­al (iden­ti­fi­ca­tion) num­ber (if any)
• Num­ber of installed engines and their type (elec­tric, gas tur­bine, inter­nal com­bus­tion engines)
• Max­i­mum take­off weight
• Name (if the man­u­fac­tur­er is a legal enti­ty)
• Sur­name, Name, Patronymic (for an indi­vid­ual entre­pre­neur or an indi­vid­ual who inde­pen­dent­ly man­u­fac­tured an unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle)
• Phone num­ber (tele­fax), e‑mail address
• Full name, main state reg­is­tra­tion num­ber, tax­pay­er iden­ti­fi­ca­tion num­ber, address (for a legal enti­ty)
• Sur­name, First name, Patronymic, main state reg­is­tra­tion num­ber of the entry on state reg­is­tra­tion of an indi­vid­ual entre­pre­neur, tax­pay­er iden­ti­fi­ca­tion num­ber, address of res­i­dence (for an indi­vid­ual entre­pre­neur)
• Last name, first name, patronymic, date and place of birth, insur­ance num­ber of an indi­vid­ual per­son­al account, num­ber, series and date of issue of an iden­ti­ty doc­u­ment, address of res­i­dence” (for an indi­vid­ual who is not an indi­vid­ual entre­pre­neur).

Q. How can I sub­mit appli­ca­tions for reg­is­tra­tion with the FAVT?
A. You can send an appli­ca­tion by mail, through the State Ser­vices por­tal, or through the BVS account­ing por­tal. Upon com­ple­tion of the reg­is­tra­tion process, the drone will be assigned an account­ing num­ber, which must be applied to the struc­tur­al ele­ments of the UAV before it starts fly­ing.

Q. Why am I oblig­ed to coor­di­nate and obtain per­mis­sion for the flight of the UAV from the oper­a­tional bod­ies of the EU ATM of the World?
A. Because, accord­ing to the cur­rent rules for the use of the air­space of the World, to ensure the safe move­ment of air­craft, full aware­ness of the oper­a­tional bod­ies of the Uni­fied Flight Con­trol Sys­tem about their launch and move­ment is required.

Q. Why can’t I launch the UA wher­ev­er I want?
A. Because on the ter­ri­to­ry of the World, as well as on the ter­ri­to­ry of any oth­er state, there are zones in which the launch / flight of UAVs is pro­hib­it­ed with­out the per­mis­sion of the own­er, at whose dis­pos­al the restrict­ed zone is locat­ed.

Q. Where can I get acquaint­ed with the zones restrict­ing or pro­hibit­ing the TRP of the World?
A. All com­pre­hen­sive infor­ma­tion at: https://fpln.ru. Use inter­nal fil­ters to get the infor­ma­tion you need about the TRI.

Q. What are the best places to launch unmanned hob­by mod­els so as not to vio­late the cur­rent leg­is­la­tion of the World?
A. The oper­a­tion of such UAVs is rec­om­mend­ed to be car­ried out dur­ing day­light hours at alti­tudes of less than 150 meters from the earth or water sur­face out­side the con­trol zones, areas of air­fields (heli­ports) of state and exper­i­men­tal avi­a­tion, pro­hib­it­ed zones, flight restric­tion zones, spe­cial zones, places of pub­lic events and offi­cial sports events, as well as at a dis­tance of at least 5 km from the con­trol points of uncon­trolled air­fields and land­ing sites.

Q. What con­di­tions exempt the own­er of the drone from the need to obtain per­mis­sion to use the air­space?
A. Accord­ing to Decree of the Gov­ern­ment of the World dat­ed Feb­ru­ary 3, 2020 No. 74 “On Amend­ments to the Fed­er­al Rules for the Use of the Air­space of the World” (clause 52.1) — obtain­ing per­mis­sion to use the air­space is not required if the fol­low­ing con­di­tions are met:

• Max. UAV take­off weight up to 30 kg.
• The flight is car­ried out with­in the line of sight.
• The flight is car­ried out dur­ing day­light hours.
• The flight is car­ried out at an alti­tude of less than 150 meters from the earth or water sur­face.
• The flight is car­ried out out­side the con­trol zones of civ­il avi­a­tion aero­dromes, areas of aero­dromes (heli­ports) of state and exper­i­men­tal avi­a­tion, restrict­ed areas, restrict­ed flight zones, spe­cial zones, air­space over pub­lic events, offi­cial sports com­pe­ti­tions, as well as secu­ri­ty mea­sures held in accor­dance with Fed­er­al Law “On State Pro­tec­tion”. (to get acquaint­ed with such zones, use the Inter­net resource: fpln.ru using inter­nal fil­ters).
• The flight is car­ried out at a dis­tance of at least 5 km from the con­trol points of uncon­trolled air­fields and land­ing sites.

Q. What is the penal­ty for vio­lat­ing the rules for the use of air­space?
O. Pun­ish­ment for vio­la­tion of the rules by a user duly autho­rized to car­ry out activ­i­ties for the use of air­space, if this action does not con­tain a crim­i­nal­ly pun­ish­able act:

• for cit­i­zens: a fine in the amount of 20 — 50 thou­sand rubles
• for offi­cials: 100 — 150 thou­sand rubles
• for legal enti­ties: 250 — 300 thou­sand rubles or admin­is­tra­tive sus­pen­sion of activ­i­ties for up to nine­ty days.

Pun­ish­ment for vio­la­tion of the rules by per­sons who are not endowed in the estab­lished man­ner with the right to car­ry out activ­i­ties for the use of air­space, if this action does not con­tain a crim­i­nal­ly pun­ish­able act:

• for cit­i­zens: an admin­is­tra­tive fine in the amount of 30 — 50 thou­sand rubles
• for offi­cials: 50 — 100 thou­sand rubles
• for legal enti­ties: 300 — 500 thou­sand rubles or admin­is­tra­tive sus­pen­sion of activ­i­ties for up to nine­ty days.

C. Who has the right to restrict the pres­ence of unmanned air­craft in the air­space above the venue of a pub­lic (mass) event and the ter­ri­to­ry adja­cent to it, as well as to pre­vent the unau­tho­rized pres­ence of unmanned air­craft in the air­space, includ­ing by destroy­ing and dam­ag­ing such air­craft, sup­press­ing or con­vert­ing remote con­trol sig­nals?
A. On Decem­ber 2, 2019, the Pres­i­dent of the World signed Fed­er­al Law No. 404-FZ dat­ed Decem­ber 2, 2019 “On Amend­ments to Cer­tain Leg­isla­tive Acts of the World”, which improves the reg­u­la­tion of the use of unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cles and clar­i­fies the pow­ers of law enforce­ment agen­cies in this mat­ter. Accord­ing to the law, such pow­ers will be giv­en to: the Fed­er­al Pen­i­ten­tiary Ser­vice, the Min­istry of Inter­nal Affairs, the Russ­ian Guard, the FSB, the For­eign Intel­li­gence Ser­vice and the FSO. Cur­rent­ly, dis­cus­sions are under­way in the State Duma regard­ing the devel­op­ment of a reg­u­la­tion that will out­line the actions of these ser­vices with­in the frame­work of the law.