Colton Watt

Up Sky-Marketing

4105 Watkins Way 

West Richland, WA. 99353

Our goal is to provide the Tri-City area with professional and high quality aerial photography and 

videography for real estate agents, architects, builders, property owners, companies, 

organizations and institutions.

Safety

There will be be a number of procedures that would be implemented to insure safety before any 

unmanned aircraft (UA) is launched. All UA's will be inspected before a flight. The pilot in 

command (PIC) will do a walk around the UA to check for any wear and tear on the body or 

propellers. The PIC will look over the UA and decide if it is in good shape to fly or if it will need 

maintenance and repair before flying. 

Maintenance and repair of the UA's will be required to keep them in healthy, reliable flying 

condition. Simple things, such as, cleaning the UA before or after a flight will have a positive 

affect. PIC's will need to decide when propellers need to be changed out for new 

ones.Replacing propellers regularly will play a key role in maintaining the UA. 

Once the PIC approves that the UA is ready to fly, he will then have to make another decision. 

That is to approve if the weather conditions are safe to fly in. These UA's weren't meant to fly in 

high winds, or even medium winds, and rainy conditions. Each fly would be weather permitting. 

UA's will only be flown when the weather is cooperating.

Before any flying, we will walk around the area that will be flown to check for any obstacles that 

might be in the direct path of flight. these obstacles will mainly consist of trees and power lines. 

We will be sure to fly well away from any obstacles to avoid any collisions or near misses. We 

will always be aware of our surroundings before flying. 

When the UA is in the air, the PIC will maintain safety to the NAS, public and property by always 

having the UA in their visual line of sight. Also, there will be a spotter, an individual not operating

the aircraft whose job is nothing but to watch the aircraft, present at all times. This will insure 

that there will be eyes on the aircraft at all times. 

Other safety precautions that would be taken include, flying under 200 feet high and not flying 

within 5 miles of an airport.

Qualifications
In order to become a PIC, or be directly responsible for the operation of a UA, there will be 

prerequisites that will be required to complete. These prerequisites will include, 

1. Must log 10 hours minimum of spotting for another PIC. 

2. Must log 15 hours minimum of total flight time. 

3. Must log 5 hours minimum while being observed closely by another PIC. 

This way they can learn the steps that are taken before and during flight by a PIC. After 15 total 

hours of flying a particular UA, they should know exactly how to operate and handle the UA. 

Being observed for a minimum of 5 hours will give us enough information to decide if they are 

ready to become a PIC or if they need more time and practice. If the PIC observing believes that 

the trainee is still incapable of flying without supervision, then they will have to repeat the 

following steps. These will be prerequisites required if we do decide we need to hire another 

PIC.

As for now, we have 2 individuals who are fully capable and ready to be a PIC. One, being 

myself, Colton Watt, part owner of the company. Two, Nathan Robertson, the other part owner 

of the company. Together, we have logged hundreds of hours of flight time operating UA's. I 

have owned and operated multiple UA's (quadcopters) over the past few years. I have used 

UA's for filming and to make youtube videos in the past. Being the videos were never that stable 

and shakey, it was always just a hobby for me. Recently I purchased a new UA , a phantom 3 

professional. I was amazed by how it performed, and how stable the video was. I thought it 

looked professional and thats when I decided I wanted to start this business. 

Operation

Our intended UA operations will consist of aerial photography and videography for real estate 

agents, architects, builders, property owners, companies, organizations and institutions. Our 

primary goal is to capture aerial video around a specific subject so that when people watch the 

video footage, they get a better understanding of the surroundings and the subject as a whole. 

Most of our subjects that we will be shooting video of will be buildings. Because these buildings 

are in a set location, and are not in motion, operations will be fairly simple. Also, we are based 

out of Tri-cities, Washington, and there are no sky risers. For our operations, we will fly the UA 

no higher than 200ft. A top speed of 15 mph, and always having the UA in the visual line of 

sight. Most operations will consist of doing a slow circle around a building at about 25 to 50 feet 

high in the air. This should take no longer than 20 minutes in the air for one subject. 

Hazards that we might run into while operating are, bad weather, obstacles, and repair and 

maintenance of the UA. Above I have mentioned precautions we to take prevent these hazards. 

Aircraft

The UA we will be using is a Phantom 3 Professional quadcopter by DJI. 
Specifications:

Weight (including battery and propellers) 1280 g

Diagonal size (including propellers) 590 mm

Max Ascent Speed 5 m/s

Max Descent Speed 3 m/s

Hover Accuracy Vertical: +/- 0.1 m (when Vision Positioning is active) or 

 +/- 0.5m

Horizontal: +/- 1.5 m

Max Speed 16 m/s (ATTI mode, no wind)

Max Service Ceiling 6000 m (Default altitude limit: 120 m above 

takeoff point)

Operating Temperature 0°C to 40°C

GPS Mode GPS/GLONASS

Registration NumbersColton Watt- FA3XKLT7H7

Nathan Robertson- FA3Y393MPY