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Course Agenda 

UNH Drone (UAV/UAS) Operator Certificate

*Subject to change

Day 1 – Introductions, Regulations, Safety, Ethics

Classroom

9:00 – 10:00 – Breakfast, Introductions, review course schedule

10:00 – 11:00 – Safety precautions, Preflight checklist review, FAA regulations

11:00 – 12:00 – Part 107 introduction, Hobbyists vs Commercial Pilots, DJI App Introduction

12:00 - 1:00 – Lunch

Outdoors

1:15 - 3:30 – Flight Exercises (weather permitting)

• Overview of checklist
• Basic control movements
• Figure 8s, circles
• Depth perception
• POI

Day 2 – UAS Equipment, Flight Scenarios, DJI App

Classroom

9:00 - 10:00 – DJI App overview, Components of a UAS

10:00 – 11:00 – Review of “What if” scenarios, flight training

Outdoors

11:00 – 12:30 – Flight Exercises (weather permitting)

• POI
• WayPoints
• Maneuver through cones
• Locate objects
• Camera stability

12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch

1:30 – 3:30 – Flight Continued (weather permitting)

Day 3 – Regulations, Mapping, Advanced Flight

Classroom

9:00 – 10:00 – Breakfast, commercial drone usage, mapping introduction

10:00 – 11:00 – Mapping technology, usage

Outdoors

11:00 – 12:00 – Flight Exercises (weather permitting)

• Utilization of VO – No look drone
• Line of sight
• Cone obstacles
• Revisit past exercises
• Mapping demonstration (Jim)

12:00-1:00 – Lunch

1:00-3:30 – Flight Exercises Continued (weather permitting)

Day 4 – Mastering Controls, UAS Applications

Classroom

9:00 – 10:30 – Breakfast, review situations from past classes, questions (hobbyist, commercial)

Outdoors

10:30 – 12:00 – Flight Exercises (weather permitted)

• Spark through the woods
• Photography/Videography
• Drone Bingo
• Revisit past applications & exercises

12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch

1:00 – 3:30 – Flight Exercises Continued (weather permitted)

The Browne Center for Innovative Learning

340 Dame Road, Durham, NH, 03824

From the South - Boston

• Follow I-95 North into New Hampshire
• Take Exit 4, on the left, to merge onto NH-16N/US-4 W to White Mountains
• Take Exit 6W to merge onto US-4 toward Durham/Concord...

From the North - Maine

• Follow I-95 South into New Hampshire
• Take Exit 5 onto NH-16N / US-4 W toward Newington/Dover
• Take Exit 6W to merge onto US-4 toward Durham/Concord...

Directions Continued

• Take the NH-108 Exit toward Durham/Newmarket
• Turn onto NH-108 South
• Turn left at the lights to stay on NH-108 South
• Turn left onto Durham Point Road, follow for 3.3. miles
• Turn right on Dame Road, turns into dirt road, follow for .4 miles
• Turn left at the blue Browne Center sign (sign is on right side of road)
• Follow driveways to the end, past main building into the large parking lot

• Drone (UAV/UAS) and Emergency Management Course
• Part 107 Drone (UAV/UAS) Pilot Test Prep Workshop
• Drone Photography: Real Estate, Surveying, Agriculture
• Drones (UAV/UAS) and GIS Image Processing