Category: Pilot Insights
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Wingman Wednesday: Fright Night — Be Seen to Be Safe (and Smart) After Dark
Night flying isn’t scary when you have a plan. In Fright Night, we turn darkness into an advantage with a clear night-ops playbook: make your drone and crew unmistakable, build a lit LZ, use a VO like a pro, beat night illusions, and know the U.S./Canada rules—plus a copy-ready thermal scenario.
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Wingman Wednesday: “There’s nothing scarier than a drone pilot who doesn’t follow the rules”
There’s nothing scarier than a drone pilot who doesn’t follow the rules. 🎃 This Halloween Gala Week, Sky Commander brings you five frightening real-world flight mistakes — and the quick fixes that keep you safe. Read on before your next mission becomes a monster story.
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Wingman Wednesday: Post-Thanksgiving Flight Check — Safety, Gratitude, and Sharpened Ops
🇨🇦 Wingman Wednesday, post-Thanksgiving edition. We’re grateful for two birds: the one on the table—and the one keeping people safe in the sky. After a long weekend, tiny gaps become big risks. Here’s our 10-point safety reset for pilots: firmware sanity, battery 3×3 test, bird-conflict playbook, and 20-minute skill drills you can run today.
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🍁 Wingman Wednesday — The Leaf-Off Advantage: Your Fall Mapping & Inspection Blueprint
Fall is more than pretty colors — it’s the best time of year for precision flying. When the leaves drop, your drone sees what summer hides: clear sightlines, sharper mapping, and data that speaks for itself. In this Wingman Wednesday edition, Sky Commander breaks down how to capture professional-grade imagery during leaf-off season — from…
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🚨 Mysterious Drone Sightings & Your Liability: What Happens If You’re That Pilot in the Wrong Place?
Airports shutting down. Police searchlights sweeping the night sky. Mystery drones making headlines. Even if you’re flying legally, one misidentified sighting could put your license, your reputation, and your wallet on the line. In this Wingman Wednesday post, Sky Commander breaks down the real risks of being “that pilot in the wrong place at the…
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✈️ Wingman Wednesday: Drone in a Box 2.0 — Smarter, Tougher, More Autonomous
Discover how Drone in a Box 2.0 is reshaping the drone industry — with smarter autonomy, rugged design, and AI-powered capabilities. Wingman Wednesday brings you the future of flight with Sky Commander.
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Wingman Wednesday: Canada’s New Level 1 Complex Certificate — What Every Pilot Needs to Know
Canada’s drone rules are changing this November with the introduction of the new Level 1 Complex Certificate. From Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) to RPAS Operator Certificates (RPOC), here’s what every pilot—new or experienced—needs to know. Learn how these updates impact training, operations, and the future role of pilots as automation and autonomy take…
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✈️ Wingman Wednesday: Decode the Sky, Dodge the Turbulence, Dominate the Flight
Canadian skies can turn on you fast. This Wingman Wednesday dives into decoding METARs/TAFs, reading turbulence layers, and spotting convective weather before it wrecks your mission. Backed by Sky Commander Academy Podcast insights.
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🧭 Wingman Wednesday: The Pilot in Command (PIC) – The Captain of Every Mission
🚨 Who Really Runs the Mission? It’s not the drone. It’s not the tech. It’s you — the Pilot in Command. In this explosive final chapter of our Wingman Wednesday series, we reveal the untold truth about the PIC role — why it’s more than a title, and how mastering it could make or break…
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🛰️ Wingman Wednesday: The Flight Planner – Your Crew’s Secret Weapon
“The only drone flight that goes exactly as planned…is the one that was planned for everything.”— Every seasoned Flight Planner, ever Some crew roles are obvious. The pilot? Critical. Payload operator? A tech wizard.But the Flight Planner? Most people don’t even realize they exist—until the mission collapses without one. In today’s Wingman Wednesday, we’re pulling back the…
Sky Commander – Drone Inspections & Aerial Intelligence 