Advanced Flight Technologies
By Patrick Sherman | lucidity@roswellflighttestcrew.com
MAINTAINING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS (SA) is an essential skill for every pilot, and it is of ever-increasing importance as the advent of commercial sUAS takes remote piloting farther and farther from its roots at established AMA flying fields. SA covers a multitude of factors—everything from the position and attitude of your aircraft, to how much battery power or fuel you have remaining, to current and future weather conditions, and much more.
In this column, I want to focus on one specific…
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