Aviation

A big part of my life surrounds aviation and flying. I am a commercial instrument-rated airplane pilot and a commercial drone pilot. I’ve been an airplane pilot since 1988.

My life as an aviator is broken up in different compartments as you will see below.

Public Safety and Non-Profit Pilot

I am the Chief Pilot for the Wake Forest Fire Department and also fly for North Carolina Emergency Management, Department of Transportation, and the Division of Aviation.

I have several different websites related to these activities.

ReportDroneAccident.com – This website gathers drone accident data and presents it to UAS pilots to help them be more informed about issues, crashes, incidents, and other information to make flying safer.

PSFlight.org – Public Safety Flight is dedicated to assisting all public safety pilots for police departments and fire departments to be more aware of issues impacting public safety pilots.

• Who’s Watching the Skies?
• Fresh Eyes Look at COA Requirements for the New Public Safety Department
• DJI Phantom 4 Pro – Incident – 2021-11-25
• Child Injured – DJI Air 2S – Accident – 2022-04-16
• As Predicted, Effort to Block Drone Remote ID Fails in Court
• NTSB Punts on Keeping Public Safety Pilots Safe. It’s All On You.
• DJI Phantom 4 Pro V2.0 – Incident Accident – 2022-07-08
• DJI Mavic Pro Enterprise Dual – Incident – 2022-07-07
• DJI Phantom 4 PRO V2 – Incident – 2022-07-06
• Drone Strikes Helicopter Over NC June 23, 2022

Pilot.dog – I am also a non-profit dog rescue pilot and fly dogs from kill shelters to rescues so they can be adopted.

Aviation Author

I am also an author on public safety aviation for the world’s largest aviation association, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. You can find my articles for them over here.