UAS 409 - Unmanned Aerial Systems - Advanced Flight Operations

Credits: (4)

Prerequisites: GEOL 100, or GEOL 120 and GEOL 121, or GEOS 250, and/or permission of the instructor.
Prepares students for careers that require maintaining and flying Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), also known as drones. Potential applications include geological mapping, geospatial science mapping, geophysics, archeology, engineering, forestry, agriculture, infrastructure, criminal justice, and disaster response, to mention only a few. Included are specifics of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations, types of unmanned systems, mission planning and flight operations. The course primarily trains students to work with a variety of drones of different sizes, from lightweight to heavy-lift aircraft for larger payloads. Instruction begins with training for manual “stick-and-rudder” piloting skills and transitions to overall mission planning and safety, to flight programming for fully-autonomous flights to gather remote spatial data and intelligence.

Note(s): Applied Learning designated course.