Title: Lesson 9: Flight Preparation
Course: Image acquisition using drones > Section: Course Content

This lesson describes the activities to be carried out the day of the flight. Activities are divided generically in pre-during-post flight.
The entire procedure can be considered as a complete checklist.

Objectives

The objective of this lesson es to instruct you on a number of sequential action, PIC should take in order to have all under in control the day of the flight. This objectives are very generic and they need some adaptations in respect to the mission and drone types.

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...

- Enlist the requirements/effort of the mission
- Have all the legal paperwork organized
- Establish basecamp and secure the perimeter
- Check the flight zone for last news
- Enlist all the resources and emergency items required for the mission
- Define the weather altering factors.
- Survey the site for eventual changes
- Brief the crew
- Have a clear understanding of the pre-during-post executions in terms of drone operation and functionality
- Make the Pilot's log.

Learning activities:

- Study the PPT presentation “EENSAT_Drone_Operation_09_Flight_Preparation.pptx”.
- Prepare exercises as described under “Tasks”

Tasks:

1. Go through the PPT and study the lesson.
2. Ask questions you did not understand but only after searching for explanatory material.
3. Make a complete design of the flight preparation following a stated rubric

Planned time frame for this lesson:

8 hours