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Pilot Currency, Drone Maintenance Logs, and the Compliance Blind Spot Most Operators Have

Most commercial UAS operators track their Part 107 expiration. Fewer track pilot medical currency, insurance expiration, aircraft maintenance intervals, and battery health in one place — until an audit or incident makes it matter.

June 23, 2026 — Jeremy Yates

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