Site Environment Guide
Five environment types. Five distinct failure modes. Master all of them and you'll produce clean data on every site you fly.
Open Environments
Parks, reserves, industrial estates. The most forgiving sites you will fly — understand why they work and where they can still bite you.
Suburban & Light Commercial
Shopping centres, station precincts, medium-density residential. The most common site type — and the one that trips up overconfident pilots.
Dense Commercial & Infrastructure
Hospitals, universities, rail corridors. GPS looks fine — but the data tells a different story. The failure is invisible until post-processing.
CBD High-Rise Corridors
The most technically demanding environment you will fly in regularly. Everything you've learned across all other types converges here.
Specialist Environments
Water surface multipath and controlled airspace proximity. Two environments with failure modes found nowhere else.