A local TV station has hired a remote pilot to operate their small UA to cover news stories. The remote pilot has had multiple near misses with obstacles on the ground and two small UAS accidents. What would be a solution for the news station to improve their operating safety culture?
The news station should implement a policy of no more than five crashes/incidents within 6 months.
The news station does not need to make any changes; there are times that an accident is unavoidable.
The news station should recognize hazardous attitudes and situations and develop standard operating procedures that emphasize safety.✓ Correct Answer
Explanation
A healthy safety culture starts by recognizing hazardous attitudes and operational pressure and then putting safety-focused standard operating procedures and risk assessment in place, as described in AC 107-2A Appendix A and the Remote Pilot Study Guide Ch. 10. A policy that tolerates up to five crashes accepts unnecessary risk, and treating accidents as unavoidable ignores the pattern of near misses that is signaling a problem.
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