sUAS Professional Remote Pilot I

Course Number:
UAS 200
Transcript Title:
sUAS Professional Remote Pilot I
Created:
May 03, 2023
Updated:
May 03, 2023
Total Credits:
5
Lecture Hours:
40
Lecture / Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
30
Satisfies Cultural Literacy requirement:
No
Satisfies General Education requirement:
No
Grading Options
A-F
Default Grading Options
A-F
Repeats available for credit:
0
Prerequisites

FAA Remote Pilot License.

Course Description

Extends knowledge and skills learned in UAS 101, preparing students for professional applications of UAS by providing an understanding of UAS Systems, including: command and control, communication, payload, launch and recovery, and basic maintenance considerations. Covers human factors, crew resource management, aviation decision making cybersecurity, risk management and ethics. Provides an in-depth study of Notices to Airmen (NOTAMS), mission and flight planning and low altitude authorization and notification (LAANC).  Introduces basic National Institute of Standards and Training (NIST) flight training utilizing simulator technology. Integrates stress management strategies/techniques as part of in the simulator training as well as throughout. Includes a one-week, on-site NIST training and flight exam. Prerequisite: FAA Remote Pilot License.

Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Apply aeronautical decision making (ADM), risk management, and crew resource management (CRM).
  2. Demonstrate practical applications of stress management in a flight situation.
  3. Prepare a mission plan using advanced flight methods within the UAS mission planning process.
  4. Demonstrate a basic understanding of photogrammetry and automated flights.
  5. Apply the requirements and processes necessary to achieve the minimum accepted level of the National Institute Standards and Training (NIST) sUAS flight exam.

Suggested Outcome Assessment Strategies

The student will demonstrate competencies related to the following (via written test, verbal demonstrations, and flight exam): The student will Explain ADM, CRM and Risk Management. The student will demonstrate and evaluate the use of UAS systems and planning skills, demonstrate effective team/group process skills, employ analytical skills, demonstrate, and evaluate aircraft operations. The student will be able to demonstrate the understanding of all Mission steps. The student will be able to verbally explain the steps necessary to pass a NIST flight exam. Student evaluation is done via exams, quizzes, assignments, simulator exercises and flight exams.

Course Activities and Design

The determination of teaching strategies used in the delivery of outcomes is generally left to the discretion of the instructor. Here are some strategies that you might consider when designing your course: lecture, small group/forum discussion, flipped classroom, dyads, oral presentation, role play, simulation scenarios, group projects, service learning projects, hands-on lab, peer review/workshops, cooperative learning (jigsaw, fishbowl), inquiry based instruction, differentiated instruction (learning centers), graphic organizers, etc.

Course Content

Outcome #1: Apply aeronautical decision making (ADM), risk management, and crew resource management (CRM).

  • FAA Flight Policy and Procedures of aeronautical knowledge FAA-8083-25B
    • Aeronautical decision making
      • Understanding of the Systematic Approach
      • Review Personal Attitudes
      • Define Influencers
    • Risk management
      • Students will identify safety-related hazards.
      • Introduce students to the Risk Management Process
      • Define the Five Hazardous Attitudes: Anti-authority, Impulsivity, Invulnerability, macho and resignation. Introduce students to their antidote.
      • Students will demonstrate their understanding by assessing the degree of risk and determine the best course of action by using the Risk Assessment matrix.
    • Crew resource management
      • Students will be introduced to human conditions; fatigue, complacency and stress in aviation environments.

Students will be introduced to the five traits prone for aviation accidents; Disdain for rules, safety violations, adventure seeking, impulsive and disregard.

Outcome #2: Demonstrate practical applications of stress management in a flight situation.

  • Stress techniques within a sUAS environment
    • Students will be trained and will utilize the Heartmath emWave2 stress monitor.
    • Students will understand how fatigue, complacency and stress relates to aviation incidents and how to avoid techniques.
      • Introduce students how to recognize and cope with stress
      • Introduce students how to cope with stress and to prevent overload.

Outcome #3: Prepare a mission plan using advanced flight methods within the UAS mission planning process.

  • Advanced flight plans in difficult situations.  This will include preflight planning related to weather, locations, operational limitations, hazards, crew health and no fly zones.
  • UAS mission planning process
    • Lectures, exams and assignments (role-playing) related to Operational checklist for preflight, during flight and post flight.
    • Instructure will cover  Ground operations, Pre-mission planning, in flight planning, post flight planning and end-mission debrief.
  • Advanced flight methods
    • This includes demonstrations and flight exams for Precision flights which will include: indoor investigations, Search & Rescue, Fire, Police activity, industrial inspections, surveying, Infrared, complex sensors and medical delivery.

Outcome #4: Demonstrate a basic understanding of photogrammetry and automated flights

  • Identify detailed accurate flight plans and payloads in professional environments.
  • Defining photogrammetry
    • Introduction to capturing and processing imagery and data
  • Use in professional environments
    • Choosing a sensor
    • Mission planning techniques for capturing imagery
    • Students will be provided hands-on applications as outlined in reference text: “Fundamentals of Capturing and Processing Drone Imagery and Data”

Outcome #5: Apply the requirements and processes necessary to achieve the minimum accepted level of the National Institute Standards and Training (NIST) sUAS flight exam.

  • Measure progress, highlight break-through capabilities, and encourage hardening of developmental systems through repeated testing and comparison of quantitative results.
  • Test taking strategies
    • Instructor will follow the NIST standard test methods
    • Students will have hands-on instruction to meet the standards as outline in above referenced handbook
    • The Student will be supplied  detailed test methods and evaluation.
  • What can be expected on the test
    • Students will demonstrate all elements of the safety of flight while demonstrating their flight abilities.
    • Flight exams will use the NIST standards.  This will provide measured results to quantitatively evaluate the remote pilot proficiency.

Suggested Texts and Materials

  • Emwave2 monitor
  • Zephyr Simulator Training
  • Simulator & Controller
  • FAA “Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge”, FAA-H-8983-25B
  • Federal Aviation Regulations, FAR/AIM, ISBN: 978-1-64425-093-B
  • “UAS Remote Flying Handbook”, I.M.Davis, ISBN: 978-0-9890839-6-6
  • NIST Standards;  www.nist.gov