What regulations and educational programmes are needed to ensure safety of drones?

THE CHALLENGES AT THE TECHNICAL LEVEL • Published hazard analysis and risk assessment methods about drones are based on probabilistic and deterministic approaches. • However: • We do not have data for failures, and such data is (almost) impossible to collect (who, when, how....?) • Our assumptions of “pilot” reliability are (almost) invalid: • Drone users is a totally heterogeneous and uncontrolled population with the role of both maintaining and flying a drone. • The main scope of drone flight is entertainment; no connection of the end-user with social responsibility, job security etc. • Drone users lack knowledge, experience and training in human performance limitations (not only regarding aviation...). • Drone users lack detailed technical knowledge of how drones function, so to react successfully to events not listed in manuals (assuming that they read the latter...)