Course | Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA)
The new European regulation allocates all drone operations into three categories: Open, Specific, and Certified. To operate under the “Specific” category, in the absence of a standard scenario or a Pre-Defined Risk Assessment (PDRA), an operator must prepare a risk analysis and submit it to the competent authority, to obtain authorisation to operate. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) advises this to be performed following the SORA methodology (Specific Operation Risk Assessment), developed by JARUS to support the risk assessment in the Specific category.
DO YOU NEED TO PREPARE A RISK ANALYSIS BUT DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START?
For operators or whoever doesn’t have a deep knowledge of SORA, it is difficult to kick off a risk assessment in compliance with the methodology recommended by the European regulation. The course is perfect for people which want to conduct a drone risk analysis but don’t know the requirements and documentation needed. EuroUSC Italia is the leader in Italy for SORA training. Big and small enterprises and public bodies have already chosen this training course for their staff, ensuring the level of quality that only those who have direct experience in the subject can guarantee.
LEARN FROM A TEAM OF EXPERTS
EuroUSC Italia has actively contributed to the development of SORA in the JARUS working group. Its training course on the SORA methodology has been attended by over 500 students from 2020 to date. Thanks to teachers with extensive theoretical and practical experience, the course provides the basis to apply the SORA methodology independently and obtain authorisations to operate in complex scenarios in a specific category. The training is divided into two and a half days and is full of examples and exercises based on real practical cases inspired by the experience of EuroUSC Italia. At the end of the course, 98% of students declare that they have learned how to correctly carry out a risk analysis for drone operations in a Specific category.
- Provide a propaedeutic view of airspace structures and categories of operations with UAS
- Identification of the operations typologies requiring the SORA analysis
- Learning the risk analysis process and assessment of ground and air-risk
- Identification of mitigation strategies and applicable technical and operational requirements
- Acquisition of the capability of applying the SORA methodology with autonomy
The course includes 15 theoretical modules and 8 group exercises to allow participants to familiarize participants with the SORA methodology. It is a course of three days for a total of 20 hours.
- National CAA senior executives, officials, and inspectors
- Operators and remote pilots
- Air navigation service providers or air traffic management personnel
- Manufacturers (drones or drone auxiliary systems) who wish to utilize SORA as a means to support the certification process of their products.
DOCENTI
Marco Ducci
Aeronautical Engineer. He has worked on RPAS related projects involving the development of new technologies
for cooperative and non-cooperative Detect & Avoid and the assessment of the safety of RPAS operations. He is
trainer at IANS – EUROCONTROL and JAA-TO. More recently he coordinated the study about Detect & Avoid State
of the Art (project DASA) funded by the European Defence Agency and he was one of the authors of the study for
the TRAN Committee of the European Parliament entitled “Safe Integration of Drones Into Airspace”. From April
2016 he is also Director of Airworthiness and Regulatory Compliance at EuroUSC-Italia.
Costantino Senatore
Colonel of Italian Air Force, retired in December 2016 after 36 years of service as Air Traffic Controller. In 2004,
he contributed to develop the concept of operations for the unmanned Global Hawk from the Sigonella airbase
in Sicily. In 2006-2007 he seconded “on call” ENAC and he was part of the team involved in the ENAV first Air
Navigation Service Provider certification and in the production of Circular ATM-05 and Circular ATM-06.
aerea di Sigonella, in Sicilia. In January 2017, he started working with EuroUSC-Italia as Senior Consultant.
DOCENTI
Marco Ducci
Aeronautical Engineer. He has worked on RPAS related projects involving the development of new technologies for cooperative and non-cooperative Detect & Avoid and the assessment of the safety of RPAS operations. He is trainer at IANS – EUROCONTROL and JAA-TO. More recently he coordinated the study about Detect & Avoid State of the Art (project DASA) funded by the European Defence Agency and he was one of the authors of the study for the TRAN Committee of the European Parliament entitled “Safe Integration of Drones Into Airspace”. From April 2016 he is also Director of Airworthiness and Regulatory Compliance at EuroUSC-Italia.
Costantino Senatore
Colonel of Italian Air Force, retired in December 2016 after 36 years of service as Air Traffic Controller. In 2004, he contributed to develop the concept of operations for the unmanned Global Hawk from the Sigonella airbase in Sicily. In 2006-2007 he seconded “on call” ENAC and he was part of the team involved in the ENAV first Air Navigation Service Provider certification and in the production of Circular ATM-05 and Circular ATM-06. In January 2017, he started working with EuroUSC-Italia.
PRICE
599 € + VAT
INCLUDING:
- the final certificate of completion
- resources and references materials (PowerPoint presentations, in-depth documents, and exercises)
Discounts are available for multiple memberships and ASSORPAS members.