If you want to fly a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) commercially in Australia, outside the excluded category, then you need to be licensed and/or certified by CASA.
This authorisation comes in the form of a remote pilot licence (RePL), allowing individuals to fly for operators (business entities), who in turn need to hold an RPA operator's certificate (ReOC).
Effective 29 September 2016, CASA introduced the excluded RPA category, allowing some low-risk RPA operations, including commercial operations, to take place in certain circumstances without the need for a ReOC or RePL, these operations are very restrictive and are limited to a strict set of standard operating conditions.
