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    Intentional Parachute Deployment - Smart Controller Demo - Monday - Fort Myers

    Understood on the students. But I'm sure they are taking hardhats in consideration for construction sites with the parachute. Anything to mitigate the damage to person and set adequate regulations while upping deliverables. Im sure since were on a secured data center site its much easier for us...
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    Intentional Parachute Deployment - Smart Controller Demo - Monday - Fort Myers

    Although the amount of wavers granted are low it only makes since that all parties are working on a solution to open regulations on commercial operations. I'm not sure of the ASTM documentation for the I2 but I would guess that it falls in line with an acceptable ranges. (add PPE on a...
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    Intentional Parachute Deployment - Smart Controller Demo - Monday - Fort Myers

    So.... how did it go? Following closely. We have this same test scheduled for this week.
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    ParaZero for Phantom

    If your able to get via amazon thats great. We did contact parazero as well as our corporate rep at B/H to be able to get them.
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    Safety Metrics for the construction industry

    We had one battery failure and an ESC failure. Both fatal to the drones. no pilot error was determined. Our recommendations were that adding the parazero chutes to the drones even if there was a problem mid air that it would mitigate the risk of a impact to human or property damage. but being...
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    Safety Metrics for the construction industry

    We had several incidence with faulty equipment with no impact on human or property. Still considered a "near miss" but if you take into account lessons learned, flight hours and fail rate we still have a 98.7 pass rate witch is a heck of a lot better that things like cordless drills or...
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    ParaZero for Phantom

    we have added the PZ system to all of our P4P currently but are grounded from flying currently. I am trying to leverage industry leaders to "sell" the safety of flying our projects. we are also looking into the waiver but even if we had it convincing our safety teams that the drones arnt going...
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    Safety Metrics for the construction industry

    Howdy Y'all I am heading up the Drone program for our company. My roadblock that I am running into is convincing our safety professionals that drones aren't Skynet out to kill everyone. We had been flying mapped flights everyday with an occasional media flight for the management committees...