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Coordinate with your field crew Confirm with your customer
and schedule the job Send your customer screenshots of your flight
Share the flight plan with your crew and plan and confirm that all the details have been
make sure that everything makes sense to them. accounted for.
Check your crew’s availability, and remember to
factor in extra time if you need to obtain special
permission from a regulator or landowner. On-site
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Other scheduling considerations:
On the day of the flight, check your validated
• Make sure your UAVs and batteries
are available. drone airspace map again. Temporary flight
restrictions can happen at any time—for
• Make sure that your available pilot-in-
command has been trained to fly the UAV example, if there is a forest fire or public
scheduled for the job. safety emergency, or if the president comes
• Do you have enough batteries for the planned to town.
flight duration?
There may be a way to work with regulators
• Do you need to coordinate traffic control?
even in the event of a temporary flight
• Does your client require that you have an restriction, but don’t settle for verbal
escort or supervision?
approval—insist on getting it in writing.
• Depending on the time of year and weather
in your area, you may need to add a buffer Also, take a look at the weather. If it’s raining,
to your schedule to account for weather- snowing, foggy, or very cold, you may have to
related delays. reschedule for another day.
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