Friday, August 29, 2014

Industry Ambassador


Valued consultants

After realizing the process where a government entity has to sponsor a COA for any legitimate UAS/Drone operations I was looking for sources to help Dr. Jiri Hulcr from the University of Florida to fund his research on the Laurel wilt disease spread by the ambrosia beetle in the everglades and avocado orchards. I discovered that the Florida avocado Growers Association has lots of money and they turned me onto the National Parks Service and they are doing all kinds of research and collecting all kinds of data. Then I found out that they know nothing about Dr. Jiri Hulcr so I made an e-mail introduction to Dr. Jiri Hulcr. In order for Dr. Jiri Hulcr to obtain a COA and obtain funding we are going to have to convince the National Parks Service and possibly the Florida Avocado Growers Association the benefits collecting data with UAS/Drone technology. The data pertaining to cost for technology, pilot and sensors is a huge appeal for the use of UAS for these type of operations.

Finding panthers

I connected George Sigler from Sky Warrior Inc. and Ryan English of Skymotion Media to talk about George’s desires to incorporate UAS training with his courses for basic FAA ground school where he has been training navy pilots and NFOs since the end of Vietnam. He has a huge database of NFOs who hold their civilian pilots license but they won’t qualify for their commercial pilot’s license due less than perfect eyesight but they won’t have any problem flying a UAS/Drone. Then George started talking about how he gets requests to fly in the Everglades by the Florida Department of Fish and Wildlife and different colleges and universities. Then he started talking about one of his jobs is to track panthers in the everglades. They have radio collars, if a cat doesn’t show movement for a period of 18 hours it is an indicator of either the cat is dead or injured and they track young cats to put collars on them and using tracking dogs. After growing up hunting raccoons in Michigan I know that using a UAS/Drone with IR capabilities would be of benefit for these types of operations and save a lot of stress on the panthers.

Good content

These applications make for interesting content for the proposed UAS/Drone reality TV show. I am looking for similar application pertaining to the Amphibious Predatory Migrator with alligators and pythons crawling out of the Everglades into residential neighborhoods. I am also looking to connect with those operators who are inspecting oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.   

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