Flight Debrief

One entry per run

The drone starts a new entry every time it powers up, and splits it into Sortie 1, Sortie 2 and so on, one for each time it was armed. Each entry is listed with when it started, how long it ran, how long it was in the air, and the worst thing it noticed. You pick one entry to open rather than scrolling past every event of every flight before it. A drone with nothing recorded yet says so rather than showing an empty table.

The alerts you were never shown

Warnings reach your ground station as messages while you fly, but only the ones worth interrupting you for. A line marked pilot not told was held back deliberately: the drone had already told you about that fault, and a second warning during a landing is noise, not information.

A fault that stays true collapses into one line with a count and the time it lasted until, so a camera that was dark for an hour is a single row rather than a hundred and fifty identical ones between you and the next real event. Alerts only hides everything else.

The flight as charts

Under the lines, charts follow the run: modem signal, video produced, height and distance from where it armed, battery, satellites, packets lost on the way to viewers, viewers, processor load, free memory, and silence from the ground station. Arming and mode changes are marked on them, and each sortie can be zoomed to on its own.

Take the flight with you

A debrief usually happens away from the aircraft, so an open entry offers Samples as CSV and Everything as JSON. The CSV is every chart, one row per sample; the JSON adds every line of the timeline. Read them at a desk, attach them to a report, or send them to someone who was not on the flight line.

Recording the video

Recording lives with the camera: on Cameras, open the camera's Sharing & recording and switch on Recording. A camera does not record until it is asked to, and it records in ten-minute segments with the oldest removed at the size limit set under Recordings, so nothing fills the card behind your back.

With recording on, each sortie in the Flight log carries its own clip. Video downloads it with the telemetry as a subtitle track. If the drone is linked to your Aircast cloud account, Share version sends the clip to the cloud to burn the telemetry into the picture, so it survives messengers and any player. That upload goes over the drone's own internet connection and counts against a cellular plan.