Public Safety Flight Public Safety Drone Info for Police, Fire, and EMS UAS and UAV ops

Here is a question I get on a regular basis. Question: How far can we fly our drone at the incident scenes and how far beyond the line of sight can we go? Answer: You would think there would be a simple answer to this question. There actually is but …

I loved this video showing a planning and tabletop exercise by Cal Fire aviation groups and how they walk through working together and how drones can impact their operations. Communication is always key to a safe operation. One day soon we will be able to have such professionalism between manned …

FLIR has just announced the end of support for their UAS camera the Duo Pro R high-resolution thermal camera system. The announcement says, “The end-of-sale date to order the affected product is June 10, 2022. Customers who acquire new products will continue to receive support from Teledyne FLIR until July …

The public safety drone space, and maybe the entire drone niche, is in a state of flux. An important issue I’ve run into recently is working with departments and pilots to overcome assumptions. When presented with a different perspective, the typical response is that it can’t be right. But what …