Advice and articles to help you fly safely.
Human factors
Understanding our potential behaviours and reactions as remote pilots and observers is vital. It’s tempting to think that pushing the wrong button or failing to attach a prop correctly couldn’t happen to you. But as a remote pilot, you should be keenly aware of other factors that could indirectly or directly affect your performance and decrease the safety of your operations.
Preventing technical failures
None of us is immune to the human factors affecting all aviators - including stress, time pressure, overload, and task-completion focus.
Three key areas of drone operation where human error contributes to equipment failure are: pre-flight checking; battery and power management; and situational awareness.
Avoiding terrain and obstacle collisions
Analysis has revealed a four-fold increase in incidents involving a collision with terrain, obstacles, or persons.
Collisions with objects or the ground are likely to be the incidents that pose the most significant risk of serious injury or damage to property.
Understand the primary causes of such collisions and what steps you can take to mitigate the risks.
Safer winter flying
Data shows that, on average, aircraft failures and/or damage reports relating to battery issues triple in frequency from December to February. Incidents have also been reported where other factors related to cold weather and winter flying have been the culprits. Find out how accounting for some of the increased or additional risks of winter operations could reduce the likelihood of a costly accident.