As a class, we decided to develop and work on crew resource
management (CRM) skills. Ultimately these skills are critical to safe
operation of a UAS because CRM maximizes the efficiency of work by
delineating specific tasks to specific people. While CRM is structured
differently for each operation, there is homogeneous requirements. One
of which is a checklist which was posted immediately before this blog
post. Please see the checklist blog post if you wish to visualize the
specific checklist we used during this mission. In addition, we worked
on communication and task structures for two person UAS teams. This
included communication line-of-sight and workflow plans.
This
mission exercise was carried out with a DJI Inspire 1 aircraft. Krista
was my partner and we traded off the roles of remote pilot in command
(RPIC) and visual observer between two flights. We managed to collect
video of a rural street, following it a significant distance. The two
person crew with sufficient communication allows this to be possible
because the observer can maintain line-of-site with the aircraft at all
times and the operation can maintain orientation via first person view
(FPV). The observer can also reposition them self so that the aircraft
remains visible even if the operator can not. At the end of the day,
this class exercise was practice for future higher risk operations. It
is probably in the best interest of any drone operating team to practice
on lesser cost systems so that they can learn each other's personal
styles, build trust, and maximize efficiency. Below are a series of
images from the outing including the other student teams.
Unfortunately, because blogger is not compatible with high resolution images, please see my images by clicking here.
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