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We fly our coal stockpiles every morning from a dock now. Volumes swing ยฑ4% day to day even when nothing moved. What are others getting, and what fixed it? Ground control points? RTK? Better overlap?
We're putting two docks on rooftops for our drone-as-first-responder pilot. Has anyone here actually got a BVLOS waiver for a dock setup, not a pilot with a visual observer? Mainly want to know what the FAA pushed back on and how long it took.
Our substation dock has aborted 4 of the last 9 landings, every time the gusts go past ~10 m/s crosswind. The drone hovers, tries twice, then goes to the backup landing spot. Is that normal or is something off?
Writing up our SORA 2.5 for a dock in Austria. For me it's the containment evidence again. Which operational safety objective is the hardest for you to prove?
Our client's IT team wants the live video and the flight logs to stay on their own servers. For those who did this: what did security ask for before they'd sign off?
We're hiring at Harbourline Ports ๐ Remote operations pilot, Rotterdam, full time. You'll fly docked drones for security and berth surveys from our ops room EU STS-01 or above, night experience a plus Shifts, with a fixed rota Reply here or message me directly.
A few people asked after Forum, so here's our night-ops checklist. Two pages, nothing secret. The bit that saved us most: a lighting walk at dusk, because the ship floodlights move around depending on what's being loaded.
We run AI person-detection on night patrols at two sites. False alarms are about 3 per night, mostly animals and wind-blown plastic. What are your numbers, and what lowered them?
Hi all ๐ Sara here, I run Skyward Inspections in Gothenburg. We do blade and tower inspections offshore and are moving to docks on the platforms next year. Keen to meet anyone flying from vessels or platforms!
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