Technical Assessment

At Dutch Drone Centre Aviolanda we have different categories of functional testing.

The categories we are using have an decreasing risk profile, where experimental flight test have the highest risks and maintenance test flights have the lowest risk. Categories 1 to 3 ( TRL 1-6) are coupled to different stadia of the development and production process of the software or hardware components, Category 4 (TRL- 7-8) is the used for testing UAS in production and Category 5 (TRL 9) is used for UAS that are returned from users for maintenance purposes.

• Category 1 Flight Test (Experimental flight test)
• Category 2 Flight Test (Engineering Flight Test)
• Category 3 Flight Test (Avionics/Systems Flight Test)
• Category 4 Flight Test (Production Flight Test)
• Category 5 Flight test (Maintenance Test Flight / Functional Check Flight)

For Category 1-3 we will conduct a Technical Assessment following the MoC Light-UAS.2510 of which the outcome will be an Design and Installation Appraisal (DIA). The client will have an active role in filling in the DIA template.