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UAS Nighttime Operators Course 240328-NOP-RTC-F01
March 28, 2024 - March 29, 2024
2:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Cancellations must be made by March 13, 2024, for a full refund. See our Payment, Cancellation, Refund & Attendance Policy for additional restrictions.
Learn how to safely and lawfully use this life-saving resource for nighttime public safety operations
Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (sUAV) are powerful tools for first responders. However, nighttime operations add complexity that requires specific training and equipment. The FAA maintains that an “applicant must assure all required persons participating in the small unmanned aircraft operation have the knowledge to recognize and overcome visual illusions caused by darkness and understand physiological conditions which may degrade night vision.” In this course, students identify night visual illusions and the physiological degradation occurring in darkness, then develop mitigating strategies. Students use state-of-the-art equipment to perform nighttime UAS operations couched in reality-based public safety mission sets.
Students will:
- Receive at least six hours as a member of a nighttime UAS flight crew
- Log at least two hours of flight time.
- Use thermal imagery equipped UAVs for nighttime operations
- Use Infrared equipped UAVs for nighttime operations
- Use white light equipped UAVs for nighttime operations
- Demonstrate support of nighttime public safety operations
- Understand the human physiological effects during night operations
- Identify visual illusions associated with night flying
- Develop techniques to mitigate the risks of night operations
- Examine equipment requirements for operating during hours of darkness
- Create risk mitigation strategies for night operations
Course Information
Course Length: 2 days (16 hours total)
Max Class Size: 15 Students
Equipment: Mixed, Students should bring their assigned UAV / RTC Supplemented
Recommended Prerequisite: RTC 48-hour UAS Operators Course, or 32-hour Basic Pilots Course, or have an FAA Part 107 license
Student Requirements: FAA 107 License
Technical Level: UAS Operators and Supervisors
Recommended For: UAS Operators and Supervisors / SWAT & Tactical Teams
Notes: None
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Venue: Florida F1RST Training Facility
Venue Phone: (813) 997-8474
Venue Website: https://floridafirsttraining.org/
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Description:
Without a doubt, science and technology have transformed law enforcement and criminal investigations over the last century; however, against a backdrop of an ever-changing world filled with increasingly complex threats, society has placed demands on law enforcement and the criminal justice system to continue to advance in unprecedented ways. The solution requires collaboration and continuing research to develop new and improved methods, fill gaps in industry knowledge, skills, and capabilities, and revolutionize training for practitioners in forensics, security, and tactics.
Florida’s Forensic Institute for Research, Security, and Tactics (F1RST) represents such a collaboration – a partnership between academia, practitioners, and the private-sector to develop a state-of-the-art research enterprise that will inform, innovate, and offer cutting-edge training. Through F1RST, our mission is to empower leaders around the world with the knowledge necessary to ensure safer communities by transforming public safety through research, education, and innovation.
To accomplish this, we’ve created a network of sites, containing both indoor and outdoor research and training facilities. The first site, located in Land O’ Lakes, Florida, contains the Thomas Varnadoe Forensics Center for Research and Education, two outdoor forensic anthropology fields for research and mock training, and an intelligence center that will be the hub for the innovation, evaluation, and promotion of new methods to assist with impacting crime, enhancing response to manmade and natural disasters, and ensuring safer communities. The Land O’ Lakes site is also home to the Helen A. Rich K9 Training and Research Campus centered on advancing the field of working dogs in public safety, a hangar for the research, development, testing and evaluation of unmanned systems, as well as a leadership training center to focus on refining and revolutionizing the skills, tactics, and capabilities of first responders across the country. Lastly, the site supports a cyber research and education facility to continue to prepare leaders for responding to threats in a digital world.
