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Old 12th Aug 2021, 14:28
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Why does UK CAA continue to use the technically incorrect term "Drone"?

Despite specifically being advised against it by ICAO, and thereby not an ICAO recognised term, why does the UK persist in using the term "Drone? Possibly having lead down the path by EASA, which UK no longer subscribes to, why does it not revert to the technically correct and ICAO/CAA defined Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), or the abbreviation UA when referring to the aircraft element?

The term Drone is not defined in UK CAP 1430, whereas UAS is.

Is it a case of the technically incompetent in CAA/DfT have ruled to dig us the progressivley deeper Done rabbit hole from which they are now too deep into to extricate the country from?

What next 24/7 being adopted to replace the ICAO standard H24? Or maybe LOL when they next publish a corrected version of a document that they had published a few hours before?,
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