The member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Chairman of Longxin Holdings Co., Ltd. Tu Jianhua prepared a proposal this year to remove the maximum take-off weight limit for plant protection UAVs, and called for restrictions on drones to be limited by weight.
According to industry forecasts, the total market size of China's civilian UAV product sales and services will reach 11.09 billion yuan this year, and will reach 75 billion yuan by 2025. Among them, the industrial drone market is in the Blue Ocean era. Industrial drones Agricultural plant protection drones are the direction of development for many companies.
Recently, the State Council and the Office of the Central Military Commission’s Air Traffic Control Committee organized and drafted the "Provisional Regulations for the Flight Management of Unmanned Aircraft (Draft for Soliciting Opinions)". It has recently solicited opinions from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on the official website, and for the first time it has managed drones from a national strategic level. Develop and make a deployment, clearly stated that the plant protection drone must have 'design performance while satisfying the flight's true height not exceeding 30 meters, the maximum flying speed not exceeding 50 kilometers per hour, the maximum flying radius not exceeding 2000 meters, and the maximum takeoff weight not exceeding 150 Kg'.
'If this rule is followed, over 150 kilograms of take-off weight cannot be included in plant protection drones. Both the market demand and the industry development will be significantly affected. ' Tu Jianhua said that at present, the domestic plant protection drones are due to technology, parts and components. The limitation is that 10 kg load is mainstream, 30 kg loads are basically seldom applied in batches, and only 50 kg load of plant protection drones can be done by more than a few. In Northern Daejeon, drones under 30 kg load do not have With the advantage of efficiency, the 10-kilo load in the north of Daejeon generally can only operate 200-300 mu of land per day. For the control of pests and diseases can not guarantee the timeliness.
'The agricultural land in the future will be more concentrated, the scale of planting will be larger, the variety will be unified, and the heavy load will be the long-term aviation development trend for plant protection UAVs.' Tu Jianhua introduced, Japan's "Aircraft Manufacturing Regulations" in 2014 Revised to change '100 kg or more' to '150 kg or more'.
After several months of research, Tu Jianhua learned that a number of domestic drone companies with more comprehensive strength have owned or are developing and developing large load-bearing, long-season plant protection drones to meet the needs of Daejeon plant protection. Most of the weight exceeds 150 kg. 'The advantages of these companies' products have turned into barriers to the field of plant protection UAVs.' Tu Jianhua said, 'This is in line with the state's promotion of the development of agricultural aviation plant protection, the national policy to improve plant protection efficiency, the market trend is Contrary. '
To this end, Tu Jianhua suggested that in the scope of the definition of plant protection drones, its maximum take-off weight should not exceed the limit of 150 kg.