Public Safety Drone Flight

FDNY lieutenant Fred Carlson started as a fireman on Queens Ladder 151 in November 2006 and has risen through the ranks since then. Promoted to lieutenant at the end of 2019 he now serves as in leadership of the FDNY Command Tactical Unit (the drone program).

Fred comes from a family aviation background. His mother and brother both hold Part 61 pilot certificates. His dad, uncle, and cousin served in the Air Force.

Fred and his pilot...

When it comes to someone with an extensive resume in law enforcement, Tom Madigan has a bio that reads like the book of an expert. His experience runs from find them, catch them, extract them, test them, to lock them up. In other words, patrol, detective, SWAT, crime lab, and corrections. Today we can aviation to that list.

With 25 years under his belt, he has finally landed as the Assistant Sheriff at the Alameda County Sheriff&apo...

This is the first of hopefully other podcasts where I talk directly to the FAA and get the facts and information from the source.

In this podcast, I talk with John Meehan from the FAA and we talk a deep dive into flight under a COA and investigate the landmines and pitfalls most pilots and departments are not aware of.

If you ever wanted to learn more about COAs and flying under a COA, this is the podcast you must...

Doug Bainton is a public safety drone pilot with a unique background and skill set. Not only has he been a New York City firefighter for 17 years but he had various important roles with the FDNY Disaster Assistance Response Team and has been deployed all over the place to assist with incidents and emergencies. Doug is currently assigned as the Citywide Interagency Coordinator and a public safety Part 107 pilot for New York City Eme...

Paul is with Nine Ten Drones and shares exceptional real-world information about the following items:

• What new drone pilots should understand before they begin to fly.
• Why it is often hard for new drone pilots to be aware of all the safety issues.
• How to interpret waivers and requirements in the waivers.
• Training missed by not having a flight instructor you work with. 
• How to get the missing training and why networking is important....

Jonathan Rupprecht is a recognized attorney in the drone niche. He has an extensive background in UAS aviation, and his law firm website is a wealth of information for all drone pilots.

Jon is a trusted source of information, and he spends a lot of time helping to understand issues that impact us all as public safety pilots.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How departments can evaluate the difference between wha...

Jim Moore is the Drone Pilot Newsletter editor with the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), the largest association of aviators globally. If you have not yet subscribed to the free newsletter with AOPA, you can click here not to miss an issue.

In this episode, we talk about: 

• Different ways checklists are important and how they can be implemented. 
• Why checklists are not "Do" lists.
• The Part 107 pilot...