Checklists, Fear, Panic, Experience, and FAA Expectations

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 learning curve and different learning experiences.
• What "Off Nominal Conditions" are (thanks NASA).
• How the earliest pilots learned to fly by mail, and it didn't go well.
• What manufacturers don't tell us about that goes into our drones.
• The responsibility rests on the shoulders of the remote drone pilot.
• How the FAA sees you and will judge you.
• What the FAA expectations are of drone pilots.
• What the FAA could care less about what you know or can do.
• Which is most important: understanding the regulations, Aeronautical Decision-Making or Risk Management.
• Loose, Juice, and Roost. A great tip for a minimum emergency UAS checklist.
• Landing zones and trees.
• We talk about how to handle fear, panic, and emergencies.
• How to get the gonads to say no and put your foot down.
• Where to find your best safety pilot.
• What we can do to lift all of us up as pilots.

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