Online course
Just Culture for UAS operators, a self-study course
A course for Accountable Managers, Safety Managers and remote pilots who want reporting that works, fair decisions after an event, and a set of working documents to show for it.
Who the course is for
UAS operators in the specific category, from a one-person company to an organisation with several crews. The course is written for the Accountable Manager, the Safety Manager and the remote pilots, and it covers what each of them does before, during and after an event.
It suits an operator writing its first reporting procedure as well as one that has a procedure on paper and wants people to use it.
What you will be able to do
Place occurrence reporting and just culture in SORA 2.5 and in the EU rules, and see which operational safety objectives they support at your SAIL.
Build a reporting route that costs its users little, route an event into the internal system at once, and check the external reporting duty in four steps within the deadline.
Tell human error, at-risk behaviour and reckless behaviour apart with a decision tree, decide who assesses and who decides, and respond in proportion.
Investigate for contributing factors with the SHELL model and Reason’s model, choose actions that change the situation, and close the loop with the reporter.
Lead the first 72 hours after an event, keep support apart from assessment, write a just culture policy with your staff, and measure how reporting develops.
What you build along the way
The course is built backwards from what an operator needs to have in place. Through the lessons you assemble an Implementation Pack of seven working documents, from the policy and the reporting procedure to a plan for the first 72 hours, a measurement plan and an overview that links it all to the SORA 2.5 objectives an authority reads.
How the course works
Twenty-eight lessons in six modules, about fourteen hours in all, in English and Norwegian. You work in the browser at your own pace, with no account. Every lesson mixes short explanations with questions, cases where your choices lead to different endings, ordering exercises and reflection notes that stay in your own browser.
One fictional operator, Kvitskjer Drone AS, follows you through the course, from a pilot who says nothing after a mistake to the policy the company writes a year later.
The course ends with a final assessment of fifteen questions drawn from a bank. With a pass you receive a course certificate that anyone can verify by its id.
What the course is not
The course certificate confirms that you completed a self-study course. It is not a regulatory certificate or licence, and it does not replace any training or examination required by law, by an operational authorisation or by an authority.
The course explains the rules and good practice. It does not decide for your organisation whether a given event must be reported externally; it teaches you how to check that against the rules, your authorisation and the authority’s guidance.
Who wrote the course
Roe Nerem has more than twenty years as an air traffic controller at Avinor and works today as Senior Subject Matter Expert, Rules and Regulations, at Avinor Torp. Roe chairs Jarlsberg Luftsportssenter and advises on air traffic control and risk through Preflight. The course builds on the book Just Culture for UAS-operatører by the same author.
The regulatory background
SORA 2.5 is part of the acceptable means of compliance and guidance material to Regulation (EU) 2019/947, introduced by EASA ED Decision 2025/018/R. (EASA Executive Director Decision 2025/018/R; Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/947 on the rules and procedures for the operation of unmanned aircraft)
Regulation (EU) 2019/947 requires UAS operators in the specific category to report safety-related occurrences in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 376/2014 (Article 19(2)). (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/947 on the rules and procedures for the operation of unmanned aircraft; EASA Easy Access Rules for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Revision June 2026)
The certificate
This certificate of completion confirms that the participant completed the NorthSky “Just Culture” self-study course. It is not a regulatory certificate, licence, or attestation of regulatory competence. It does not replace any training, examination, authorisation, or recurrent training required by law, an operational authorisation, or a competent authority.