Title: Lesson 2: Aircraft general knowledge and flight.
Course: Image acquisition using drones > Section: Course Content

This lesson will introduce the physical forces controlling the movements of the aircraft and the basic flight instruments available for navigation and safety. The lesson introduces the battery safe operation and calculations.

Objectives:

The main objective is to provide the linkage between the main 3 movements of an aircraft, the instruments controlling them and the elements and the forces needed for safe operations. The safe operation of batteries before and after the flight is reviewed

Entrance requirements:

Followed the previous lesson of this course and conducted the exercises.

Notions to be grasped:

At the end of this lesson the participant should…

- understand the use of the sensible parts of an aircraft;
- understand the operation and maintenance of batteries;
- have knowledge of the forces acting on an aircraft and the situations of flight instability;
- understand the three main navigation angles of an aircraft;
- describe the basic 6 navigation instruments and their use.
- understand battery management and safety.

Learning activities:

- Study the PPT presentation “EENSAT_Drone_Operation_02_Aircraft_General_Knowledge.pptx”.
- Practical: build up a protocol for safe operation LiPo batteries.
- Do calculations on battery specs that are useful for the flight. Spreadsheet construction.

Tasks:

Unzip the file “EENSAT_Drone_Operation_02_Aircraft_General_Knowledge.zip”

1. Go through the PPT and study the lesson.
2. Ask questions you did not understand but only after searching for explanatory material.
3. As practical, build a protocol for purchase, maintenance, transport, charge, discharge and storage conditions of LiPo batteries.
4. Build up a battery calculation package for use.

Planned time frame:

6 hours