Providing Air Traffic Services to Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles in Banda Aceh’s Airspace

Abstract

Nowadays, aircraft are becoming more and more important and talked about due to the rapid development of aircraft in the past few decades. In addition, we must also remember that this aircraft is an important object under air law. Aircraft that were once the result of modifications from hot air balloons have now far developed into aircraft that can be flown remotely, or currently known as drones. Even with the rapid development of drones in the last few decades, it cannot be matched by the progress of air law arrangements both internationally and nationally. With such conditions, both international air law and national air law have not been able to fully guarantee flight safety (safety first), which is the spirit of aviation as contained in the 1944 Chicago Convention, which states that the convention mandates that the growth of safe and orderly international civil aviation be guaranteed. The 1944 Chicago Convention obliges the state to ensure flight safety, including Indonesia. The intended flight safety is where every flight must be guaranteed safety by the country concerned, including civil aviation, military aviation, and drone flights or unmanned aircraft, because their operation using remote pilots has the potential to cause accidents.