A new branch of civil unmanned aviation is being born: Rogozin on amendments to the Air Code

The exact wording of the new principle is as follows: a differentiated and proportionate approach to the procedure for mandatory certification of aviation equipment, depending on the expected operating conditions and the expected risks to flight safety arising from its operation.

- That is, for the first time, a risk-based approach has been established at the level of the law. What does this mean in practice? We are moving away from universal rules for everyone.: An agricultural drone operating at an altitude of 2-3 meters and a heavy tiltrotor aircraft flying over urban areas will no longer be evaluated by regulators according to the same documents. The requirements for the design and the operator will be formed in proportion to the risk.

This idea is not new (there is, for example, GOST R 71996 of 2025 for assessing the risks of UAS operation), but for the first time in Russia it is enshrined in law. At the same time, this approach has already proven its effectiveness in the world: when requirements are set not "according to the type of device", but based on the risks of a specific mission, this allows the development of a new industry at an accelerated pace. For Russia, this is a step towards a new culture of progressive regulation: reducing the cost of certification in low-risk segments and maintaining moderate requirements where operational risk can be offset by adjusting the flight profile.

In fact, we are talking about a paradigm shift: from "bans just in case" to an engineering model of security management. It is important now not to focus on the wording of the law, but to bring the matter to industry-specific methods and application practices. But the movement is already in the right direction: a new branch of civil unmanned aviation is being born," Rogozin believes.