Crop Pilot
Starter Pack
( 10 days in-person)

 Course syllabus

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​Theory:

• Aviation regulations

• UAS General knowledge

• Operational procedures

• Safety procedures

• Effective use of spraying and mapping drones in agriculture

• Main benefits of using drones in modern agriculture

• Different plant protection products and fertilizers

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Practice:

• Pre-flight actions

• In-flight procedures

• Post-flight actions

• Emergency and contingency actions​ 

• BVLOS operations

• Night operations

• Transport and/or dropping of cargo

• Automatic mission settings

• Optimum drone spraying and spreading parameters 

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Course syllabus : 

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• Main drone components 

• Preventive maintenance

• Common diagnostic and troubleshooting procedures

• Error message explanations

• Firmware updates

• Post repair test flight procedures

Course syllabus:

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• Agricultural mapping theory

• Choosing optimum drone and mapping parameters

• DJI Mavic 3  Multispectral mapping workflow

• Pix4D Fields data processing workflow

• Spraying mission creation in Pix4D Fields and upload to DJI drones

Course syllabus:

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• Different drone brand performance comparison

• ROI calculation

• Cost price calculation

• Work day timeline

• Work efficiency improvement

• Choosing right equipment for the job

Course syllabus:

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• Plant and soil types, structure

• Plant protection products and fertilizers

• Main pain points in modern agriculture

• Effective use of spraying and mapping drones in agriculture

• Optimum drone spraying and spreading parameters