UAV Drone License

NOTAM is a Notice to Airmen

It's a notice containing information (not known sufficiently in advance to publicize by other means) concerning the establishment, condition, or change in any component of (or hazard in) the National Airspace System the timely knowledge of which is essential to personnel concerned with flight operations

Call flight service at 1-800-WX-BRIEF or search online at various websites

• NOTAM D - Primarily of value to pilots of manned aircraft. These provide information regarding speicfic airports and navigational facilities
• FDC NOTAM - of value to all pilots, provide regulatory information including changes to charts, procedures, and airspace usage. TFRs and notifications of public gatherings may be included in FDC NOTAMs
• Military NOTAMS - military has its own NOTAMs unrelated to civilian sUAS operations

Military NOTAMS - military has its own NOTAMs unrelated to civilian sUAS operations

FDC NOTAM - of value to all pilots, provide regulatory information including changes to charts, procedures, and airspace usage. TFR (temporary flight restriction)s and notifications of public gatherings may be included in FDC NOTAMs

Temporary Flight Restrictions

NOTAM D - Primarily of value to pilots of manned aircraft. These provide information regarding speicfic airports and navigational facilities

IFR (Instrument Flight conditions - IFR means a ceiling less than 1,000 feet AGL and/or visibility less than three miles) conditions exist (conditions are below basic VFR weather minimums)

Towered airport, "CT"

C in coloured circle

Common Traffic Advisory Frequency

True

False

True

Airport Facility Directory (AFD)

• ○ Monitor the airspace
• ○ Avoid traffic patterns and approaches
• ○ Immediately yield to manned aircraft
• ○ Other
• § Visual observers are useful, get a remote
• § CTAF - common traffic advisory frequency
• NOTAMS - it is your responsibility to check before flight

Rectangle for take off

Departure, crosswind, downwind, base, final

• AWOS - Automated Weather Observing System
• Also ATIS, ASOS

118.0 mhz - 136.97 mhz

ATIS, AWOS, ASOS

• ATIS for towers recorded by a human
• AWOS and ASOS computer generated

Class E and G only if necessary for safety. Do not for Class B, C, and D

Listen to Multicom 122.9

• 1. Accept no unnecessary risk
• 2. Make risk decisions at the appropriate level
• 3. Only accept risk when the benefits outweigh the dangers
• Integrate risk management in all phases of flight

• Detect - the fact that a change has occured
• Estimate - the need to counter or react to the change
• Choose - a desirable outcome
• Identify - the actions needed to achieve that outcome
• Do - it. Take the necessary action
• Evaluate - the effects of the action

• Perceive,
• process, perform

• Pilot
• • imSAFE checklist
• • Attitude checklist
• ○ Anti-authority: rules don't apply for me
• § Solution: follow the rules
• ○ Impulsivity: do it quickly
• § Solution: not so fast, think first
• ○ Invulnerability: it won't happen to me
• § Solution: it could happen to me
• ○ Macho: I can do it
• § Solution: taking chances is foolish
• ○ Resignation: I give up
• § Solution: giving up is never the answer

• Aircraft
• • Pre-flight checklist
• ○ Calculated the performance of the air craft
• ○ Loaded correctly
• ○ Batteries are charged

• Environment
• • Weather
• • Situational awareness - a crew, or single?
• ○ Single pilot resource manegement (SRM)
• § Listen to ASOS and AWOS
• § Listen to CTAF - for other aircrafts in the area
• § Sectional chart
• § Managing automation to minimize workload
• § Identify task oversaturation
• ○ Crew resource management
• § Have a communuication plan in place beforehand
• § Go or no go decision belongs to remote pilot in command

• External Pressures
• • Environmental stress
• • Psychological stress
• Physiological stress

• imSAFE
• Attitude checklist

• ○ Anti-authority: rules don't apply for me
• § Solution: follow the rules
• ○ Impulsivity: do it quickly
• § Solution: not so fast, think first
• ○ Invulnerability: it won't happen to me
• § Solution: it could happen to me
• ○ Macho: I can do it
• § Solution: taking chances is foolish
• ○ Resignation: I give up
• Solution: giving up is never the answer

55 lbs

Pilot's operating handbook or UAS flight material

A sudden loss of list

Reduce wing's angle of attack - release elevated back pressure, stall condition disappears

• Four things to have with you:
• 1. Remote pilot certification
• 2. Registration for the air craft
• 3. Airspace authorization/waivers
• Maintenance records

29.92 inches Hg

decreases by approximately 1 inch per 1000 ft

warm air expands, becoming less dense

less efficient

less oxygen

• The
• dew point is the temperature at which a volume of air becomes saturated

air moves from high pressure (more dense) to low pressure (less dense

air movement bends

friction

land breezes occur at night, air movers from the land to the water

sea breezes occur durign the day, air moves from sea to land

isobars connect points of equal pressure. when theyre close together, expect strong winds

when temperature and dew point meet, making saturated volumes of air

• stratus cloud at surface 
• forms when temperature and dew point are equal
• the air is saturated - relative humidity is 100%

if temperature is at or below freezing, frost can forms

fod usually seems present after rain

• upslope
• steam
• precicipation induced
• advection
• radiation

height above mean sea level

height above surface

height above standard datum plane

pressure altitude corrected for temperature

pressure altitude and density altitude are equal

yes

no

no

no

as the lapse rate increases (i.e. the air coosat a faster rate with increasing height) the air becomes more unstable

5.4 deg F per 1000 ft