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Establish a regulatory framework to support the infrastructure needs for RPAS and AAM operations, including vertiports and vertipads. This framework will outline the rules and standards to ensure safety, efficiency, and integration of AAM infrastructure into regional and urban environments.

Principle: Risk and outcome-based.

Develop guidance material, design requirements, and rules for vertiports and other infrastructure needed to support AAM operations. This initiative will ensure that facilities are safe, efficient, and able to meet AAM needs, helping integration into urban and regional environments.

Principle: Balanced and socially responsible.

Enhance risk calculation methods for determining operational categories by using data, artificial intelligence, and quantitative approaches. This process should improve the accuracy and reliability of risk assessments, supporting informed decision-making and promoting safer operational practices.

Principle: Risk and outcome-based.

Monitor, review and implement the necessary changes to rules, guidance and procedures needed to support the increasing maturity of AAM operations. This is a follow-on activity from OP15a.

Principle: Risk and outcome-based.

Develop guidance, pathways for operational approval, and subsequent rule adjustments for remotely piloted AAM operations with a focus on aviation safety through efficient processes.

Principle: Safety first.

Review appropriateness of regulatory oversight as operational activity profiles develop and mature over time. This could include third-party authorisations or the establishment of self-administering organisations.

Principle: Risk and outcome-based.

Implement the necessary changes required to support the introduction of AAM operations to ensure that evolving standards and practices effectively enhance aviation safety.

Principle: Risk and outcome-based.

Continue working with ICAO and like-minded regulators at legal and operational levels to help develop regulatory solutions for the 12 nm issue.

Principle: Progressive and internationally aligned.

Analyse the need to integrate RPAS operational requirements across the CASR framework to safely cater for the increasing complexity of RPAS aircraft and future operations.

Principle: Risk and outcome-based.

Review AAM processes, procedures and supporting documentation using quality assurance and continuous improvement practices to streamline applications whilst ensuring assessments of applications deliver safe operations.

Principle: Risk and outcome-based.