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OK, thank you! That pretty much seals this one up. I appreciate the help!

Thank you! That is the indication we are getting, but I wanted to see if there might be a workaround. Using agency-owned aircraft will somewhat limit our capabilities, but we can work with it if necessary.

Hi All, I am a member of a Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Unit and we are turning up our UAS program. Our pilots will be 107 certified and we will also have a COA in place. I am looking for some clarification as to whether or not personally owned UAS can be used for official operations...

Thanks for the information, everyone. I did a little testing with Pix4Dcapture this weekend and it seems like it might be a good option for grid searching where we're just photographing the area. Unfortunately, it only worked 50% of the time for me. The first pattern worked great and...

Hi All, I figured I would start a new thread for this. I am a member of a Sheriff's Office Search & Rescue Unit and we are starting up our UAS program. We currently have a mix of P3S/P4/Mavic aircraft. I have used DJI GO and Litchi primarily in the past, but I'm curious what other apps others...

Great information. Thank you!

Good info, thank you. Leaving them on a charger may not be optimal for our hasty deployment use, as the UAS are currently kept in the pilots' personal vehicle for quick deployment (with batteries shuttling back and forth to keep ambient temp exposure down). Since the batteries are going to...

I suppose another option that just came to mind would be to leave the batteries at their storage state and use an inverter in a vehicle to top them all up. Get them plugged in as soon as the call comes in, then head out. It usually takes 30-45 mins to get on scene anyway, plus other logistics...

This all seems reasonable. As we do not have a large cache of batteries at this point, would you suggest a max (10 day) discharge cycle before rotating, or retain a shorter auto discharge cycle and just rotate the batteries more often. We have 2-3 batteries per aircraft at this point. I should...

Thanks for the reply. Could you provide some additional details about your maintenance cycles? For example, if you have two batteries available for a UAS, how long would you maintain full charge on one battery? What are your discharge days set at? Are you "topping off" batteries? Etc... Thanks...

That's a good idea. I didn't think of that!

Good morning, I am a member of a Sheriff's Office Search & Rescue Unit and we are turning up our UAS program at this time and I am looking for some input regarding battery maintenance given some mission-specific requirements. Those pertinent requirements are as follows: 1. Aircraft will be...