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Managing a 200-Site UAS Project Without Losing Your Mind

A 200-site tower inspection project involves roughly 200 individual planning decisions, 200 sets of data files, and a progress-tracking problem that spreadsheets alone don't solve well. Here's how FlightDeck's workflow handles it.

June 19, 2026 — Jeremy Yates

KML Files for Drone Inspections: Why Google Earth Still Matters to Your Clients

A KML file is more than a map — it's a spatially organized record of every photo taken, where the camera was, which direction it was pointing, and how well the coverage overlaps. FlightDeck builds one automatically for every flight sub-folder.

June 16, 2026 — Jeremy Yates

Two commercial drone pilots reviewing a job site map together before a multi-aircraft UAS inspection mission

Scaling Your UAS Business: From Solo Operator to Multi-Pilot Team

The demand for commercial UAS services has outpaced the supply of organized, reliable operators in most specialized markets. Telecommunications inspection, power line survey, agricultural data collection — these markets are awarding larger contracts to operators …

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June 14, 2026 — Jeremy Yates

Thunderstorm Season and Commercial Drone Ops: What the Forecast Apps Don’t Tell You

Thunderstorm season doesn't just cancel flights — it scrambles project schedules across entire regions, sometimes for days at a time. Here's how to manage weather delays across a multi-site UAS project without losing control of your schedule.

June 12, 2026 — Jeremy Yates

UAS Safety Culture: Building a Safety-First Operation as a Solo or Small Team

Safety culture is a term most commercial UAS pilots associate with large organizations — airlines, military units, corporate flight departments with dedicated safety officers and formal SMS programs. It sounds like something that doesn’t apply …

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June 11, 2026 — Jeremy Yates

How COA Applications Actually Work — and How FlightDeck Helps You Prepare One

A Certificate of Authorization isn't just a form — it's a structured narrative that has to answer specific FAA questions in specific language. FlightDeck's COA Prep tool builds the framework so you're not starting from a blank page.

June 9, 2026 — Jeremy Yates

Photo QC and Data Delivery: Why Your Upload Process Is Costing You Clients

Flying the mission is half the job. Delivering data that meets client quality standards — every file, every time, with verified completeness — is the other half. And for many commercial UAS operators, the delivery …

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June 7, 2026 — Jeremy Yates

Commercial drone pilot reviewing a printed UAS operations manual binder with standard operating procedures and emergency protocols

Building a UAS Operations Manual: Why Every Part 107 Pilot Needs One

The FAA doesn’t require most Part 107 operators to maintain a formal operations manual. That’s the wrong reason not to have one. A UAS operations manual is three things simultaneously: your operational bible (the definitive …

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June 5, 2026 — Jeremy Yates

FlightDeck software displaying airport and hospital proximity data on a map for a commercial UAS job site

Nearest Airport, Nearest Hospital: The Situational Awareness Data Every Pre-Flight Needs

Most Part 107 pilots know their airspace classification before wheels up. Fewer know the distance and bearing to the nearest airport — or the nearest trauma center. FlightDeck calculates both automatically for every site in your project.

June 4, 2026 — Jeremy Yates

FlightDeck software showing the 3-phase site update workflow with geocoded site data, weather overlay, and mapping tools

How FlightDeck’s 3-Phase Update Turns Raw Site Data Into a Mission-Ready Project

One of the most time-consuming parts of managing a large commercial UAS project isn’t the flying — it’s the daily overhead of keeping your site list current. Geocoding new addresses. Pulling weather for 80 remaining …

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June 2, 2026 — Jeremy Yates