Advanced Certification In Drone Crash Investigation

Introduction

• Introduction to Drone crash Investigation
• Common causes of drone crash
• Awareness
• Importance
• Steps to follow after retrieving

Drone accident investigation

• Accident investigation
• Rescue operations
• Duties of crash site guard
• Initial action of the independent investigator

Practical session on Drone operations investigation

• Drone pilot logbook
• Personal record
• Activity before, during and after the accident
• Drone pilot qualifications/proficiency
• Drone pilot flight, duty and rest period
• Task management, drone pilot resource
• Management (DRM)
• Flight manual
• Pilot operating handbook (POH), standard operating
• procedures (sops) or checklists
• Witness interviews
• Final flight path determination Maintenance manual
• Adequacy of service, AMC details & Insurance details

Practical session on extracting Logs

• Data flash logs (Auto pilot)
• Analysing a log
• Automatic analysis
• Manual analysis
• Telemetry logs (Ground Station)
• Data Rate
• Mission Playback
• 3D Flight Paths
• Extracting parameters and Waypoints
• Graphing data from a flight

Practical session using Air data

• Introduction to Air data
• Configuration instructions
• How to register in Air data
• Extracting data using airdata
• Finding last location using last GPS
• Certificate awarding