The Air and Space Academy (AAE) and the Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France (French Aerospace Society, 3AF) endeavour to focus their attention and reflections on important issues linked to innovative development activities in air and space

This is the context behind the conference organised by AAE and 3AF on “Present and future of civilian RPAS”1 on 13 and 14 November 2014 in the Paris DGAC auditorium, with live broadcast to “École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile” (ENAC) in Toulouse. This dossier not only takes into account the main lessons learned from the conference, but looks further, drawing on documents published in the meantime by the FAA and the European Commission according to three pillars: Regulation – Research – Society.

Common practice on the part of these two associations is to draw the benefits of such a rich, high quality conference and the many exchanges of information it encouraged by publishing a recommendations dossier