"just thinking aloud - the whole thing could be a self funding department of CASA.
But there are many ways it could work. If you tied it in as a pre requisite for obtaining pl insurance then that would lock in serious businesses. And if it were tied…"

"Hi Mike - you bring up some excellent points!
The money could be invested in a national / bulk insurance scheme for small (sub 2kg?)commercial operators - as well as an association similar to or even ACUOS themselves. No fee / license no…"

"and one more simple tweak would make a lot of sense.

Make closed prop designs compulsory (a bit like the prop guards that DJI have o r the cybertech air frame design).
This would greatly reduce any risk involved with prop strikes on humans when it…"

"While I love the idea of dereg on the sub 2kg set ups.
I have been flying rc for 7 years (lots of 3d hi performance aerobatic planes) and have the skills to pull this off (i have been flying a FW450 for 14 months now - mostly incident free)

however…"