Last week (9/27), I covered these powerpoints (now available under “Files” on the Canvas site:

Links to Zoom lecture from April 6:

https://wwu2-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/r/personal/wallin_wwu_edu/Documents/esci497Z_uas_for_env_res/lectures/zoom_recordings/april_6?csf=1&web=1&e=cTbB2m

Intro.pptx

Intro_2.pptx

Chap1_Section 107_Regulations.pptx

Checklist to be completed prior to our class on Oct 4 class

Readings:

FAA Advisory Circular 107-2. June 2016. Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems For the quizzes you will take this week, focus on the regulations described in this document

Anderson, K and KJ Gaston. 2013.Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 11(3):138-146.

Quizzes: (Available on the Canvas site)

Quiz #1; Regulations 1

Quiz #2; Regulations 2

The quizzes are multiple choice; 3 choices for each question. Some of the questions are common sense, other require knowledge of pesky details from FAA Advisory Circular 107-2 and my lectures. These are examples of real questions that are used for the FAA Section 107 Remote Pilot written exam. The intent of these quizzes is to help prepare you to pass this FAA exam. You are not required to take this FAA exam as part of this class (it costs $150 to take it), but I’d encourage you to do so. It is a nice thing to put on your resume. For each of these online quizzes that you take this quarter, you will get a random selection of 10 questions from a question bank of about 15-25 questions. Again, my intent here is to give you practice with these questions. So, you can take each quiz twice and I will count your best score out of these two attempts. For your 2nd attempt, you may get some repeat questions. These are timed quizzes and you will have 20 minutes for each attempt. The real FAA exam also has a time restriction with about 2 minutes/question.