Don's Study Guide: Human Factors for Drone Pilots in Canada RPAS Basic & Advanced Exam Material

This is a really good video,Thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend.😊👌👏😉

Nicely summed up Don. These things can apply to your work and personal life as well as your drone flying experiences.

Thumbs up ere' Don, fellow Drone Seekers - great information to others - well persented - many thanks for sharing the info :)

Very interesting Don, I went through it all there. Good info, although I still find a red light is best at night for reading maps from my personal experience from reading star chars in the field for over 20 years, I have done the one eye closed method many times too when using a white light, it works, however night vision is still impaired somewhat, but one must do what one feels works for them I suppose. Very thorough info, thanks for sharing. Our drone registration is mandatory from November this year in the UK.

Hi Don. As always, I learned a lot from watching this video. You've got the exam stuff well covered now. Thank you for all you do for the Canadian RPAS community.

I enjoyed watching your video, great summary, you are saving us a lot of time, thank you again my friend Don.

Thanks for your video. i really enjoyed it.

Just stumbled on your channel a few days ago. I just wanna say......thank you so much!!!!!

Fantastic video Don. You speak clearly and present very well. Thank you for spending your time creating this.

hello, if i buy your pdf guide, can i copy the text and paste it in another document where i could use the search word tool to be able to find my answer faster or is it hard coded and can t copy text? thanks for letting me know.

Thanks for the video Don! Awesome information!

An excellent video lesson with really good visual aids.

Thank you, Don. Your RPAS videos are so helpful

Bonjour Don. Thank you for all your work in researching, organizing and publishing your many study guide videos about the Canadian RPAS pilot exams. They were very helpful in focusing my studies , and helping me achieve a great result.

Thanks Sir. I purchased a eachine e520 yesterday, wont get it 4 a week, watched 23 hours of hogwash and in 2.45 hours you solved it for me. Very well done.

Thanks for a great video!! I just passed basic after second try 74% thanks to you.

On the "I'M SAFE" they missed, is my Mommy there and watching me?

Hey Don wanted to thank you after watching your videos and studying passed my Advanced exam and Flight Review. Keep up the great work.

Great

In « Aviation psychology », why did you decide to skip talking about attitude and workload topics?

Excellent material Don, thank you very much

Thanks Don, situation awareness is so true.
Whether your flying FPV or running Auto pilot, implementing Attitude mode (hands on) LOS into your routine is crucial to maintain mental health and muscle memory. This practice will “one day” get you out of a bad situation with confidence. 👍🏻

Jeff
Drone builder and pilot for 6yrs.

Hi Don,
What a great presentation video on Human Factors towards exam preparation. Thanks mate!

Hi Don. After retiring from airline aviation after 42 years, I think this is one of the best human factors videos I have seen. Over the last 30 years or so, annual reviews have been mandatory including sessions related to this topic. Nicely done and thank you for putting this together.
One note. An "interesting facts" bubble appeared during the course of the video that stated Grouse Mountain as having an altitude of 1,000'. After tumbling down the ski slopes of this mountain several times, I am fairly confident that it is approximately 4,100' above sea level. My bruises would concur.

What exactly should I watch toget enough info to write basic and advanced.

I am just understanding now that his channels name is a pun on how much detail he goes into topics he enjoys

Wow I'm not planning to fly a rocket ship to outer space to the moon man, I want to just fly a stupid toy🤪🤪

Hi Don: This is an excellent video. This video is a foundation for leadership and management skill development, beyond drone piloting. I smiled several times: 1) Decision-making: During my years as a Director of a science organization, I experienced many times the impact of distractions on making a decision making, although I can count on 2 fingers the times someone brought me a coffee ;) . 2) Impact of automation - I still hear the sales pitch that automation will reduce workload. It never did. It transformed the workload and allowed us to do things differently and more "deeply", but I never saw a decrease in workload, as you point out. 3) Finally, in the interpersonal relations module (communications), as a science leader, we were very much aware of the value of asking questions, a practice that I continue to this day in retirement with lawyers and accountants, but it was a practice that frustrated some colleagues who saw questions as an attack on their role, experience, and/or authority. This is a video that could easily be modified as an introduction to ANY life skill interpersonal relationship. Well done.

Hello Don. I would like to thank you for your videos. I watched them a quickly reviewed the regs and was able to finish the basics exam in 30min with an 85%. Very well presented and comprehensive material. Thanks again.

Sweet. Watched this and did the test w/ the help of google ofcourse :)

Got a solid 65%. LOL! Passed!

I fly PG and can attest to the effects of altitude for extended periods without supplemental Oxygen.

Got 77% just by using google....

Thanks. I just took the advanced Exam, only got 66%. More than half the stuff you outlined wasn't on there unfortunately.

i love all the little funny you sprinkle subtily in ll your video , cheers :D

Another great video, thanks for sharing. Section 4, Effects of automation, made me smile too. I suppose there are bad uses of automation and good ones.

The section on blind spots and averted vision - I learned this trick years ago as an amateur astronomer, one of my other hobbies.

Thanks for sharing!!!

I want to take my advance test. which file of your store do you recommend me to be prepare?

Thank you for perfect material on topic of human factors in aviation, well done!

Excellent video, Don. Thank you.

Thank you for delivering this useless drone pilots section with poise and enthusiasm. It is so painful to fill our heads with useless information because of some bureaucrat sitting in his or her high office making decisions with those questionnaires.