Baines Simmons | A TrustFlight Capability
UAS Safety & Compliance Consultancy
TrustFlight brings deep specialist aerospace safety expertise to the uncrewed sector through our Baines Simmons consultancy capability. We help UAS operators and OEMs build the safety foundations that unlock regulatory approvals, win contracts, and sustain long-term growth.
Why It Matters Now
The uncrewed aviation sector is scaling fast. Regulatory expectations are keeping pace.
Scale
The sector is moving fast
BVLOS operations are becoming routine. Urban airspace integration is in active planning. Regulatory frameworks are maturing across commercial and defence domains.
Challenge
Innovation alone is not enough
UAS OEMs and operators need demonstrable safety performance, regulatory credibility, and structured risk management to unlock approvals, win contracts, and sustain growth.
Capability
Proven aerospace expertise, now applied here
TrustFlight brings specialist aerospace safety expertise to the uncrewed sector, building the safety foundations that regulators require and investors and customers expect.
What We Deliver
Eight specialist service lines. One integrated capability.
Our specialist safety consultants have delivered these services across the aerospace industry for decades. Now we are applying that proven approach to the fastest-growing segment in aviation.
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Safety Management Systems
Designing and implementing proportionate Management Systems using our proven SMARRT MAP™ framework, tailored to UAS business models. Aligned with UK CAA, EASA, FAA, and military requirements. From early-stage development through operational maturity.
02
Proactive Culture & Active Leadership
Safety culture assessments, executive safety leadership programmes, structured governance frameworks, and investigations that deliver appropriate accountability and operational learning. Bridging the gap between technology and aviation.
03
Risk Management
Structured hazard identification, risk analysis using appropriate methods including BowTie, safety case development, and operational risk modelling for complex UAS missions including BVLOS, urban operations, and autonomous systems.
04
Regulatory Compliance & Approvals
Regulatory approval strategy, gap analyses, audit support, and compliance documentation. We translate regulatory language into practical operational solutions, reducing uncertainty and accelerating time to market.
05
Airworthiness & CAMO
Airworthiness reviews, maintenance programme optimisation, CAMO-equivalent frameworks, configuration control, and modification management. Through-life support for maturing UAS platforms.
06
Human Performance Training
A complete HP/CRM training pathway for uncrewed aviation: foundation e-learning through advanced CRM, leadership development, safety culture, and organisational learning. The only UAS training programme built with direct regulatory drafting access.
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SME Advisory for Early-Stage OEMs
Expert guidance for UAS technology companies and OEMs seeking to enhance investor confidence, secure partnerships, and demonstrate safety credibility from the earliest stages of development.
08
Bid Support
Strengthening competitive position in defence and civil procurement contracts through robust safety governance and demonstrated regulatory compliance.
Our Framework
The SMARRT MAP™ Framework
Every safety management engagement we deliver is structured around our proven SMARRT MAP™ framework. Developed through decades of working with aviation organisations worldwide, it identifies the key enablers of an effective management system and ensures it functions as intended.
For UAS operators, this means a proportionate, structured approach to safety management that satisfies regulatory requirements, builds genuine safety culture, and scales with your operation as it matures.
Our UAS Safety Expertise
Trusted by regulators and relied on by operators worldwide. Now serving UAS.
25
Years of specialist aerospace safety consultancy
40+
Regulatory authorities advised worldwide
750+
Organisations served across civil and military aviation
200,000+
Professionals trained through our safety programmes
Direct regulatory drafting access
Contributing to the UK CAA’s Acceptable Means of Compliance and Guidance Material for UAS Human Performance and CRM.
Invited to write the EUROCAE standard
Appointed to author the EUROCAE standard for uncrewed human performance, reflecting recognised expertise at the highest regulatory level.
Military authority relationships
Direct relationships with the Joint Aviation Command and Military Aviation Authority, including the Defence Aviation Human Factors Technical Training Advisory Panel (DAHFTTAP).
Integrated with Centrik
Fully integrated with Centrik, our proven safety management platform trusted across 120 countries. Consultancy builds the foundations. Training develops the competence. Centrik sustains it.
The Complete Ecosystem
The only provider combining consultancy, training, and safety management software for uncrewed aviation.
TrustFlight is the only provider combining specialist safety consultancy, human performance training, and safety management software for uncrewed aviation. No other provider offers this combination.
Consultancy
Builds the safety foundations
SMS design, safety culture development, risk frameworks, regulatory strategy. Delivered by specialist safety consultants with deep aerospace expertise applied directly to the uncrewed sector.
Training
Develops the competence
A six-product HP/CRM pathway from foundation awareness through advanced CRM and organisational learning. The only UAS training programme built with direct regulatory drafting access.
Centrik 5 SMS
Sustains it all
Safety reporting, risk assessment, compliance tracking, audit management, document control, and competence management in a single platform. Trusted by 200,000+ users across 120 countries.
Centrik 5 SMS
Everything you need to sustain your safety management system
Centrik is TrustFlight’s proven safety, quality, and compliance management platform. It provides the operational infrastructure to sustain everything your consultancy engagement builds.
Safety Reporting
Confidential hazard and incident reporting with configurable workflows. Managers assess reports, assign actions, and monitor progress through to closure in a single system.
Risk Management
Multi-hazard, multi-consequence risk assessments linked to SMS reports and compliance findings to reveal the true risk picture across your UAS operation.
Compliance
Manage internal and external compliance against embedded regulations, with easy access to your audit schedule, findings, and actions. Built for UK CAA, EASA, FAA, and military requirements.
Training & Competence
Qualifications, currency, and training records at your fingertips. Manage competency requirements across your crew and operations team with automated alerts for expiring records.
Document Control
Demonstrate effective document control with distribution and read-acknowledgement tracking. Keep operations manuals, procedures, and safety documents version-controlled and audit-ready.
Workflows & Dashboard
Dynamic workflows for any repetitive safety process, linked to meetings, audits, and risk assessments. Role-based dashboards give every team member visibility of what is relevant to them.
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UAS Safety & Compliance Consultancy Brochure
Get the full overview of our UAS consultancy capability in a single document. Covers all eight service lines, the SMARRT MAP™ framework, and how TrustFlight’s integrated ecosystem supports your safety programme from first engagement through long-term operations.
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