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Course Description:
EMMU Aerial is offering the popular Part 107 Drone Pilot
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To fly your drone under the FAA's Small UAS Rule (Part 107)
for commercial purposes, you must obtain a Remote Pilot Certificate from the
FAA.This certificate demonstrates that
you understand the regulations, operating requirements, and procedures for
safely flying drones.
In order to get the Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate, you
need to pass the FAA drone pilot test called the Airman Knowledge Test. The two-hour,
60 question test requires extensive studying and our course teaches you
everything you need to know.Knowledge
test topic areas include:
Applicable
regulations relating to small unmanned aircraft system rating privileges,
limitations, and flight operation
Airspace
classification and operating requirements, and flight restrictions
affecting small unmanned aircraft operation
Aviation
weather sources and effects of weather on small unmanned aircraft
performance
Small
unmanned aircraft loading and performance
Emergency
procedures
Crew
resource management
Radio
communication procedures
Determining
the performance of small unmanned aircraft
Physiological
effects of drugs and alcohol
Aeronautical
decision-making and judgment
Airport
operations
Maintenance
and preflight inspection procedures
Taking and completing the in-person class is the right
decision. Having an EMMU Aerial instructor to answer your questions as you
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Part
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Date; March 25, 2017
Length; 16
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From a YouTube post on civilian drones in search and rescue in 2013 that I thought would be
important to bring back.
I cannot believe how the FAA sacrificed Gene Robinson. He
did some amazing things, solving missing persons in minutes vs hours, days and
weeks.Texas was really critical on
drones and now they are one of the more accepting states.
This documentary details the bureaucratic challenges faced
by search and rescue personnel and their desperate need for civilian drones
which are restricted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Countless
lives could be saved with this existing and affordable technology, but the
government prohibited their use in 2007.
As I was looking back at where EMMU had come from and where
EMMU Aerial is today, it was obvious we had come a long way and learned a lot
along the way, mostly through our emergency mobile mapping and oblique aerial
photography systems.
From the early days of Emergency Mobile Mapping Unit or EMMU in 2000 where we
provided a true mobile
emergency GIS response capability with our GIS quick response trailer to
support wildland firefighters, first responders and search and rescue
professionals.
Read more about the original concept of the EMMU mobile emergency response GIS / GPS mapping system
During an emergency or crisis, maps play a critical role
in responding to the event, search and rescue, mitigating further damage, and
understanding the extent of the impacts. Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
is an appropriate platform to organize the extensive amount of spatial data
both generated and utilized during an emergency event. A properly designed and
implemented GIS will allow managers and responders to access critical location
data in a timely manner so lives and property can be protected and restored.
GIS works effectively in all four phases of the disaster
management cycle; preparation, mitigation, response and recovery.
GIS can play a
valuable and vital role in;
•Hurricanes
•Tornadoes
•Floods
•Wild
Fires
•Earthquakes
•Volcanoes
•Tsunamis
•Landslides
•Search
and Rescue
•Epidemics
•Social
unrest
•Toxic
spills
EMMU GIS Trailers are capable of quickly and efficiently
compiling, processing, managing and printing raw data points onto either
full-size 36" or 42" color plots, or on easy to distribute
11"x17" pages. The EMMU GIS trailers also have the ability to project
maps inside the trailer for emergency managers to quickly survey and understand
an ever changing situation. EMMU has top-of-the line hardware, current ESRI GIS
software suites, and experienced specialists to provide a GIS solution that
will exceed expectations for quality and speed of service.
Opportunities for Mobile GIS Systems end with the limits
of your imagination. These systems are ideal for emergency management, private,
corporate, county and industrial research where onsite mapping technologies and
experienced GIS / GPS specialists can save time and cut costs considerably
EMMU GPS Specialists can also assist the incident
commander by providing GPS, GIS data integration. GPS is one of the most
efficient methods for documenting information regarding the location of
facilities, conditions, and environments affected by Wildfire, Floods,
Earthquakes, and other incidents.
EMMU GIS units are dispatched out of Central Florida with
a fully qualified GIS/GPS Specialist.Additional GIS /GPS Specialists are available upon request
Standard GIS Unit Features
•8.5 x
24 ft Self contained climate controlled trailer
•Meets
OSHA work environment requirements
•Workspace
for a minimum of 3 workers
•AC
power source (Generator)
•High
Speed Satellite Internet Connection
•UPS
and line conditioner system
•All
workstations, printers and plotters are networked
•1 Xeon
3.0 MHz Desktop
•2 Core
2 Duo Mobile Desktops
•HP 800
PS Large Scale Plotter
•HP
9600 11x17 Printer
•Laser
copier, printer, fax, scanner
•Multiple
GPS units
•4x4
ATV with GPS(Optional)
Installed software includes
•ESRI ArcGIS
9.1 and 9.2
•ESRI ArcView
3.3
•Spatial
Analyst
•Fire
Incident Mapping Tool
•Ventura
Tools
•DNR
Garmin GPS software
•Adobe
Photoshop
•Microsoft
Office
EMMU Inc. also offers Oblique Aerial Photography; we use
a professional-grade digital camera with top of the line lenses. The resulting
images can be filtered to remove moderate smoke/haze, and enhanced to identify
vegetation types. We also utilize Gyro-stabilizing equipment to keep the camera
still at the moment the photo is snapped. Thanks to this added stabilization,
photographs taken from an airplane or helicopter do not contain the blur seen
on many photos. When needed, these cameras can be coupled with a GPS to provide
the Latitude and Longitude coordinates in the photo data and on the photo if
needed.
Years later, EMMU Aerial had developed their skills through extensive operational aerial photography, remote sensing and UAS surveillance work with the military and government agencies. From these beginnings with military systems, we now provide turnkey and flexible training solutions and servicesfor public safety agencies and organizations throughout the U.S.
In this unlikely tale, two strangers and a drone played
crucial roles in rescuing a man trapped in his flooded home in Hope Mills, N.C.
Drone photographer Quavas Hart decided to take his drone out
on Sunday to capture images of some of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane
Matthew.
"I happened to come across this neighborhood that was
completely submerged in water," Hart tells The Two-Way. He posted a
picture on Twitter showing the dramatic scene of a cul-de-sac with floodwaters
up to the eaves of the roofs.
As it turned out, Navy veteran Chris Williams and his
elderly dog Lana were trapped in the house with one blue shutter to the right
of the picture.
Williams thought he was out of the hurricane's path when his
power went out a day and a half before, according to his twin brother, Craig
Williams, who lives in Texas. "During that day and a half," Craig
told The Two-Way, "the hurricane shifted paths and was coming directly
towards him."
Chris went to sleep on Saturday night — and woke up to a
bang. The surging water had broken through his back door, sending furniture
crashing around the house. He grabbed Lana and raced to the highest point in
the house, a small room where he had some food stored. "He spent the next
14 hours sitting there," Craig said.
During this time, both Craig and Chris tried to contact
local emergency services to reach rescue crews — to no avail. Chris' phone line
was down but the brothers were able to stay in touch over Facebook Messenger. When
Craig finally got in contact with rescuers on Sunday, they eventually told him
they weren't able to get to his brother's area.
Then Craig spotted Quavas' dramatic cul-de-sac picture on
Twitter, and wrote a joking note to Chris: "Hey, at least you're not this
guy."
It only took a few seconds for Chris to respond: "Hey,
that's my house."
Craig immediately reached out to Quavas with this plea:
"Any chance you can boat him out of there? He's trapped upstairs."
But Craig messaged again that he was "completely
serious." He explained that his brother had an "old dog with him that
can't swim."
So Quavas rushed back to the flooded neighborhood to try to
help rescue Chris. He says he deployed the drone again, and spotted a FEMA boat
nearby. He managed to signal the boat to follow his drone, and then led the
rescuers to Chris' house.
Quavas is also a veteran — he says he served in the Army for
10 years, with deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. The father of four left the
military in July 2012 and went to film school. "It's kind of like
replacing my weapon with my camera, from my perspective."
He's still coming to terms with the serendipitous rescue.
"It's just so wicked crazy amazing, humbling, I don't know how to explain
it," he says. Quavas adds that his home was also damaged in the floods.
Iowa first responders turned to a new colleague when
searching for missing boaters.
CNN July 15, 2016
A 20-person team was searching for a grandfather and
granddaughter who were stranded in a logjam on the East Fork of the Des Moines
River. David Penton, emergency management coordinator for Kossuth County, could
faintly hear the cries of the missing persons, but the setting sun was making
it more difficult to see them amid the thickly wooded riverbank.
So Penton called a colleague and had him rush to the scene
with a drone.
Within three minutes of takeoff, they'd found the duo by
watching the live stream from the DJI Phantom's camera. The drone then hovered
overhead so that the first responders could use its location to guide them to
the grandfather and granddaughter.
Penton said he expected the victims would have been found
without the drone, but using it allowed them to find them faster. Once
discovered, the man fell to his knees as he was suffering from a heart attack.
"Without the help of that drone, time could've been an
issue for him," Penton said.
The man, Thomas Fitzpatrick, was rushed to a hospital.
Penton said late Thursday that Fitzpatrick was expected to be upgraded from
critical to stable condition.
Drones are proving valuable to people such as Penton, who
can benefit from inexpensive aerial photos and videos. Drones are expected to
become increasingly common in August as the federal
government's rules for commercial drone use will go into effect. The
drone industry estimates that by 2025, drones will lead to 100,000 new jobs and
an economic impact of $82 billion.
Since acquiring the drone in May, Penton had only used it in
test flights. He said the drone performed so well that he plans to get a second
one. The drone Penton relied on -- a DJI Phantom -- weighs three pounds and
costs about $1,000.
"It gave that patient or that victim reassurance that
they have been found," Penton said of the missing persons first seeing a
drone hovering overhead. "We're here. We've rolled out every asset that we
have to find them."
Firefighters had to use a drone to save a teenager and a
younger boy when they became stuck on a rock in the middle of a raging current.
Rescue crews tried to reach the pair in a raft -- but when the waves became
overwhelming they paddled back to shore and used a small unmanned aircraft to
toe a line over to the boys.
The kids, age 18 and 12, were boating down the Little
Androscoggin River in Mechanic Falls, Maine on Tuesday when they became
stranded on a slippery rock surface. Only one was wearing a life jacket, and
they couldn't safely navigate the unpredictable rapids to shore. So Fire Chief
Frank Roma, of Auburn Maine, a county in the state's southern region, attached
a rope line to his own DJI Phantom 3 and piloted the drone out over the
middle of the river. He then sent a life jacket over the line and used the
Phantom to watch from above.
“I was able to take the drone out to him; lower it down to
his level,” Roma told WMTW, a local TV station. “He was able to disconnect
it and get the life vest on and then I was able to put the drone back up as an
aerial observation.”
Cheif Roma said he purchased the UAV with his own money but
sees obvious new advantages for rescue teams if they invest in drone
equipment. This rescue comes only weeks after lifeguard crews elsewhere in the
U.S. began deploying small unmanned aircraft to patrol
for sharks and other beach threats.
“I think we've only begun to scratch the surface for what
their full capabilities can be in the emergencies field,” Roma told WMTW-TV. “I
was able to see exactly what the drone was seeing. I was able to direct it to
where it needed to be.”
A drone pilot helped rescue four people who were stranded
by floodwaters in a Fort Worth suburb Sunday morning.
The drone was used in two separate incidents for two
separate reasons, underscoring the versatility of the emerging technology in
search-and-rescue scenarios. In an early morning rescue, Garret Bryl, a
volunteer drone pilot who works with the Joshua Fire Department in Texas, used
his drone to spot a pickup truck that had been swept off the road and into a
forest during a flash flood.
Later that day, he used the drone to fly a rope to two
people who were stranded in their mobile home. The rope was then used to pass
life preservers to the couple, who were later rescued by a helicopter.
"It was pretty exciting, it was the whole team that
did it," Bryl told me. "This time, the drone was the hero of the
scene but it couldn't have happened without everyone working together."
Bryl told me that he has modified a DJI Inspire One drone
to carry a searchlight. Early Sunday morning, he used the drone-mounted
spotlight to find two missing people that ground crews couldn't locate. The
truck they were driving was swept off the road by rushing water and ended up
underneath some downed trees.
"Right now, I'm basically flying as an enthusiast
with an emergency scanner"
"The water was pushing it under, it was bad and
pretty scary. The fire department had been looking for the truck for about a
half hour or so and couldn't find it," Bryl said. "The fire chief
asked if I could put up the drone, and I found them in 25 seconds. It was fast.
From the aerial perspective, the reflector on the tail light was illuminated by
the spotlight."
The fire department sent in a small rescue hovercraft and
saved the people trapped inside. Mere hours later, Bryl was at it again.
The second rescue was slightly more dramatic, in that it
played out on live television. The water level surrounding Tracey and Bill
Kastel's mobile home had risen to their door (their home is on stilts),
trapping them inside. The water was rushing too fast to make a boat rescue.
The fire department sent in this rescue vehicle after Bryl spotted the truck. image Garret Bryl
Bryl used the drone to fly what's known as a "leader
line" rope over to the Kastel's home. Bill Kastel grabbed the rope and
tied it to the base of his home, allowing rescue workers to shuttle over life
preservers and a rescue line. With the family stabilized, a rescue worker
operating out of a National Guard Black Hawk helicopter was able to rappel down
and save them. The Kastels did not respond to my interview request.
Bryl told me the lead line maneuver is one that he and
the fire department practiced for the first time a couple weeks ago.
Interestingly, and perhaps unfortunately, Bryl isn't
officially affiliated with the fire department, because the Federal Aviation
Administration has a penchant for sending cease-and-desist letters to
organizations that fly drones for search and rescue without official clearance
from the agency.
Last year, the FAA was embroiled in an ongoing dispute
with Texas EquuSearch, a volunteer search-and-rescue group that has been flying
drones on many of its missions. The FAA formally asked the group to stop
flying; the group sued. That case was eventually thrown out, and the
organization has, on occasion, obtained what's known as an emergency
Certificate of Authorization to fly its drone.
The Joshua Fire Department doesn't have a COA (it has
applied for one). So, in the meantime, Bryl is flying merely as a hobbyist.
"Right now, I'm basically flying as an enthusiast
with an emergency scanner," he said. "I know they'd like to have me
out there, so I show up in the same way the media might show up and ask them if
they need help."
Brendan Schulman, a lawyer who specializes in drone
issues and represented Texas EquuSearch last year in its case against the FAA
said that the agency needs to make it easier for people like Bryl to fly.
"Stories like these are a good example of why we
need to create a lightly-regulated framework for 'micro' drones that are very
light weight and are flown low to the ground, separate from the regulations for
larger systems," Schulman told me.
"In the case of that water rescue with the rope, the
drone apparently wasn't even flown above the roof line," he added.
"Countries such as Mexico and Canada have created a stand-alone set of
requirements for operating commercial drones that are under 4.4 pounds. The
United States should do the same."
Bryl says he's been flying in cooperation with the fire
department for about six months now (he started flying quadcopters about three
years ago). He said he flies for the department multiple times a week, often to
get a better perspective on the brushfires that are common in the area.
"It's a whole different level of flying when you're
helping out with an emergency," he said. "When you have property and
lives at stake, it gets difficult."
