Brandon Karr is from Pearland, Texas, and is currently the Chief Pilot, UAS Program Coordinator, and night shift patrolman for the Pearland Police Department. And I thought I had a full plate.
Brandon is another guest that has a different perspective on public safety drone operations because he has been a manned aircraft pilot since 2006. He worked hard and earned his commercial pilot rating as well as becoming a Certified Flight Instructor for single-engine airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, and trains instrument pilots. That is quite an accomplishment.
But that's not all. Brandon is also the head honcho of the Gulf Coast Regional Public Safety UAS Response Task Force in Texas that is comprised of over 85 agencies and 250 pilots that fly to assist police, fire, or other agencies with natural disasters and major incidents.
In this podcast, we cover a number of topics. Including:
Why it is imperative to maintain VLOS with the Matrice 300 because when the app crashes you are blinded.
Things manned aircraft pilots can do to share aviation experience with new drone pilots.
Learning from the oh crap moments.
Hard lessons learned from the experience of flying drones in public safety.
Why you don’t want to have to type the letter, “Dear Chief, nobody was more surprised than I was…”
Why flying outside the regulations can ruin probable cause.
Dealing with counter-UAS operations while on a public safety flight.
Good flight attitudes to fly with.
How to tell risk from reward when you are asked to fly.
The three skills public safety pilots should learn.
And much more.
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