Drone Flight Planning 101 - A Checklist Guide!

Designed and developed by a police-affiliated drone instructor, this practical checklist guide will provide you with exactly what you may need to know and be able to provide when flying or planning a CAA-approved drone mission!

Don't forget to download the resources provided! They are the actual checklists that you get to have and keep for the rest of your drone piloting careers!

If you want to know about me, and you need proof that this course will be to your absolute benefit, this is the video to watch! Again, don't forget the resources provided! Those are your actual checklists to use for your planning! If you haven't downloaded them already, head back to your first video and find them in the Resources section!

Unfortunately, I need to make this video because I trusted somebody who turned out to be untrustworthy, and this course has suffered as a consequence. I need to apologise for the really terrible editing that you will find throughout most of the course. I have no way of rectifying the situation, so please bare with me and do your best to get through the hardest moments. And above all else, remember to keep learning!

This video will detail the information and structure of the course, allowing you to understand how we are going to be attacking these documents!

This video, the last of the introduction section, will showcase to you all the checklist documents that we will use for this course!

A reminder: if you haven't done so already, remember to download these documents from the Resources section within the first video of the course!

Use this checklist to help yourself identify the reasons and requirements behind your flight objectives!

Use this checklist to identify what exact type of equipment you will need to accomplish your flight objectives!

Use this checklist to establish exactly what the details of your flight are how you want to go about flying it!

Use this checklist to properly plan for your mission and assess your surroundings at your predetermined location!

Use this checklist to assess the ground space and floor-level obstacles of your chosen location!

Use this checklist to identify any risks or issues that may present themselves in the air of your chosen location!

Use this checklist for your basic emergency planning (and I am so sorry for the terrible audio of this video)!

Use these checklists to plan your mission and assess your surroundings upon arrival at your chosen location!

BONUS VIDEO: Use an aeronautical chart to plan your mission, instead of any possible apps and software!

Use this checklist to identify who of your crew should have what responsibility and then to delegate crew roles!

Use this checklist alongside your crew to establish your ability to perform on the day of the flight!

BONUS VIDEO: Use this section of your crew briefing checklists to establish weather safety conditions for the flight!

Use these checklists to identify the weather for the day of flight, and to assess whether flight is good to go or not!

BONUS VIDEO: Learn how to find and implement all your weather and aviation reports into your flight planning!

Use this checklist to properly check all of your equipment before leaving your base and heading to the flight area!

Use this checklist to properly check your Multirotor-type aircrafts before take-off!

Use this checklist to properly check your Fixed-Wing-type aircrafts before take-off!

Use this checklist to properly check your VTOL-type aircrafts before take-off!

Use this checklist to properly check all of your equipment at the end of the day before heading back to base!

Use this checklist to calculate your flyaway area of affect and then plot it onto a map system!

Use this checklist to identify any of the major airspaces that may be affected during a flyaway situation!

Use this checklist to identify any of the licensed aerodromes that may be impacted during a flyaway situation!

Use this checklist to establish and mitigate any potential risks or hazards that may cause issues during your flight!

Use this checklist to assess possible emergencies and create effective response strategies for if they should arise!

Use this checklist to find and house all emergency contact numbers for easy access, should an emergency arise!

Use this checklist to assess the capabilities of the self and crew, and assign duties for if an emergency should arise!

Use this checklist to summarise the radio call and highlight the most important aspects of said radio call!

Use this checklist to write out the initial radio call before giving it on the radio, prior to your take-off!

Use this checklist to write out the final radio call to give on the radio, once the flight has come to an end!

Use this final checklist to summarise all the previous checklists and ensure nothing was missed during your planning!

Thanks everyone, for fulfilling your duties as a knowledgeable drone operator! I strongly believe that you as a drone pilot should have all the information necessary to make sound judgements at any point of the flight. Whether before flying, to identify risks, during flight, to mitigate risks, or even in an emergency, to combat the effects quicker; all I can say, is that you are doing the right thing by growing your knowledge, and I am grateful to you for making the skies safer for everybody! Thank you!!!