FAA WingsThe FAA Wings program has been around for a long time, helping aviators to improve their flight skills.  The FAA Safety Team (FAAST) also offers free classes that benefit drone operators – an excellent resource for public safety professionals and others to keep learning.  There are classes focused specifically on drones – and classes that benefit aviators of all types.

The following is one of a biweekly series on public safety drone issues by Steve Rhode, Chief Pilot with the Wake Forest Fire Department and the North Carolina Public Safety Drone Academy, and founder of Public Safety Flight, a website dedicated to information about the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), UAVs, aircraft, and drones in public safety.

Becoming a Better Aviator

Sitting on the front lines of a dark, wet, and chaotic incident scene is not the place you want to start becoming a better pilot.

In my continued effort to take all new public safety drone pilots under a wing to provide friendly,…

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Source: dronelife.com