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UC Drones

November 17, 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of UC Drones  1.0 – November 18, 2016

This new app will streamline our UAS Flight Request and Reporting process and enable us to achieve the highest levels of safety. 

You can access the app at https://ehs.ucop.edu/, sign in and select the Drones icon.

 

Here are the features that you can look forward to with this release:

  • Register yourself as a pilot / crew member: Register with your campus and specify your certificate and qualifications. You can update your pilot registration at any time.  Qualification standards are under development and crew management features will be added in a future release.
  • Manage your aircrafts: Register your unmanned aircraft to a responsible person / organization / department for tracking flight activity. Please note that you may have to add your aircraft into this system even if you’ve submitted it to the Center of Excellence on UAS Safety as we’re still in the process of unifying our databases.  The Center will address any duplicate entries and other data cleansing issues.
  • Manage your UAS flight requests and reports in one unified system. You may view which flights have been approved, which need reporting and your completed flights.
  • Flight Requests: Request a flight by selecting your pilot, aircraft and location, and add comments or even attach supplementary files.  If your flight operations change, you can edit your flight requests or add additional documents.  You’ll be notified by email on the status of your flight request.
  • Flight Reporting: After you’ve completed your flights, you can submit your flight report with a couple of clicks without having to enter redundant information.  You can easily indicate if you encountered any abnormal operations or incidents, and log aircraft damage. After you’ve submitted your flight report, you’ll still be able view your reports for your records.
  • Administrators have the ability to register other people as pilots/crew members, add and manage aircraft, and can review flight requests for approval or denial and add comments or documents.

We will be following up with a full instruction guide on Monday, but feel free to give it a try.  If you want to do test submissions, please indicate that in the comments. 

If you have any comments, questions or feature requests, you can submit them to the developers at erm@ucop.edu or to the Center at uassafety@ucmerced.edu