Piloting and operations
Summary¶
The piloting-operations domain covers everything that happens between battery connection and battery removal: flight modes and their sensor dependencies, piloting skill progression, scheduled maintenance intervals, post-flight blackbox analysis, and winter operating procedures. These articles address the operator persona — the person flying and maintaining a built drone — and are distinct from the builder domain that covers construction and configuration.
Concept¶
Reference¶
Articles in this domain¶
| Article | Content |
|---|---|
| flight-modes | Rate / angle / GPS modes, sensor dependencies, failure transitions |
| piloting-progression | Learning phases from hover to FPV orientation to emergencies |
| scheduled-maintenance | Maintenance intervals by component, post-crash inspection |
| blackbox-analysis | Gyro spectrum, time trace, motor output, PID diagnostic guide |
Procedure¶
Rationale¶
Why piloting and operations share a domain¶
Pilot skill and platform maintenance are inseparable in practice. A pilot who does not understand the maintenance requirements of their platform will fly degraded hardware. A maintenance-focused operator who does not understand flight modes cannot respond correctly to in-flight failures. The domain captures both and treats the operator as a single persona responsible for both.
Connections¶
requires: [] related: - preflight-checklist - flight-modes - scheduled-maintenance - blackbox-analysis leads_to: - flight-modes