Drone flight card

Use this card in lesson 13 and take it into the field. The routine follows Rodrigo Ferreira's advice from his flights near Manaus.

Area: Date: Pilot:

Plan

• Area small enough for one battery: 5 to 10 minutes, 50 to 100 photos.
• Takeoff point visited on foot. Tallest nearby tree: about m.
• Height: m (usually 60 to 90 m, never above 120 m or your local limit).
• Grid planned in the mapping app with overlap between photos.
• Plan downloaded so it works offline.
• Weather checked: wind, rain, heat.
• Time: early to mid afternoon, to avoid long shadows.
• Permission from the people who live and work under the flight path.

Pack

• Drone and propellers
• Two or three charged batteries
• Phone, charged, with the mapping app
• Memory card with space
• Hat, sunscreen, insect repellent, water
• This card and a pencil

In the air

• Sensors calibrated if the drone asks for it.
• Battery watched. Land with charge to spare.
• A photo of yourself between flights, so you can tell the sets apart later.

After landing

Photos copied to: by

Second copy at:

Processed with OpenDroneMap or WebODM on:

Who looks at the images first:

Images that stay private (houses, people, sacred places, rare species):

Next flight

Same takeoff point, same height, same time of day, on:

One map is a snapshot. A map every few months shows what changed.