Public safety drone training
Training built around the call, not the controls.
Scenario-focused instruction that connects aircraft skills, crew communication, and sound decisions to the work your team may actually face.
Recently completed in Massachusetts
Police officers trained with law-enforcement-specific scenarios.
Mike led a hands-on session that connected aircraft handling, crew communication, search decisions, and scene awareness to situations the officers could recognize.
The work stayed practical: clear roles, repeatable procedures, direct coaching, and exercises that required more than simply flying the aircraft.
Program design
Practice the decisions before the pressure arrives.
Training begins with your aircraft, people, program stage, policies, and mission types. Exercises are then shaped around your actual operating context.
Missing-person search
Build a search plan from the briefing, assign pilot and observer roles, fly deliberate patterns, compare visual and thermal information, and practice reporting a possible find.
Night and low-light operations
Plan a safe nighttime launch, manage lighting and visual-observer coverage, work through glare and reduced depth cues, and learn where thermal and low-light sensors help—or do not.
Incident scene awareness
Establish useful observation points, communicate landmarks clearly, maintain scene and airspace awareness, and deliver concise updates without overloading the command structure.
Damage assessment and documentation
Capture consistent overview and detail imagery, track what has been covered, manage batteries and files, and create a repeatable visual record for review after the flight.
Exercises can be scaled from a guided walkthrough to a full team field evolution, based on experience, aircraft, policy, site conditions, and the objectives your department selects.
Relevant perspective
Operational discipline, clearly bounded.
Mike served six years in the Massachusetts Army National Guard as a military policeman. That experience informs his emphasis on preparation, defined roles, repeatable procedures, and calm communication. He brings drone expertise, practical instruction, and respect for the team’s operational context.
Start with the mission
What does your team need to be ready to do?
Public-safety inquiries come directly to Mike. He will assess the need, ask practical questions, and route suitable programs through UAV Coach, his training partner, when appropriate.
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