Title: Lesson 7: Drone operational procedures
Course: Image acquisition using drones > Section: Course Content

This lesson informs over the operation procedures with respect to the individual components and responsible of each aspect of an drone long term enterprise or business. It involves company, human resources and machines.

Objectives:

The main objective is to understand the different levels of responsibilities assigned to team and individuals in the enterprise of drone commercial business. It includes aspects of operator accreditation, pilot responsibilities, field authorizations, flight planning, risk and mitigation analysis, flight preparation, execution and post flight activities.

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 responsibilities of the team in terms of legal completions.
- be able to build up lists and procedures: MEL, flight plan, risk matrix, incident reports, NOTAMS
- be able to estipulate the flight preparation, execution and post flights reports.

Learning activities:

- Study the PPT presentation “EENSAT_Drone_Operation_07_Operational_procedures.pptx”.
- Follow the videos in the link.
- Prepare exercises as described under “Tasks”

Tasks:

Unzip the file “EENSAT_Drone_Operation_07_Operational_procedures.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. Given a set of rules, design the risk matrix, evaluate the risk factor with inclusion of eventual mitigation strategies.

Planned time frame for this lesson:

6 hours