Our Training Officer, Darryl has been helping to train a Winter Mountain Rescue course in Georgia this past week. Here are some of his wintery pics #ScottishMR #dronesforgood #VolunteeringToSaveLives

SARAA Pilots from Oban Mountain Rescue Team were training at night this week. Night flying can be tricky, especially in Winter conditions and requires regular practice. They managed to capture some stunning pics whist flying #dronesforgood #VolunteeringToSaveLives

A fantastic image taken by SARAA pilots who are members of Arran Mountain Rescue Team Whilst operating in the winter environment can be more challenging, the views can be amazing #dronesforgood #ScottishMR #VolunteeringToSaveLives

One scenario was an avalanche. We had to find a 1x1m target, crampons, helmet, carabiners, rope and an ice axe. Pilots were 300-400m from a steep gully rising from 430m to 700m. In real conditions, a very dangerous environment. The images show what capability a #drone can bring.

Superb day one yesterday with some challenging scenarios high up in some steep gully’s simulating fallen climbers, an avalanche tip and a river incident. Let’s see what day two of our training weekend brings.. #dronesforgood

Heading into the Galloway wilds for a training weekend getting some of our pilots together to test our tactics and procedures.

There are so many use cases for #drones in mountain rescue, today one was used by Tweed Valley MRT to help with event monitoring of a hill running race. #drones forgood Scottish MR

Lovely shot of the ObanMRT #drone out in the Scottish hills 😍 #drone sforgood

Nice long summer evening shadows whilst one of our pilots was getting some currency flying completed 😍 #DroneSAR #dronesforgood

Really proud that Darryl Ashford-Smith, one of our pilots and our fundraising officer, has been selected by The Churchill Fellowship to research and develop the use of standardised procedures for drone #searchandrescue .
Many congrats Darryl 🥂 #dronesforgood
churchillfellowship.org/ideas-experts/…

Where's the casualty...? Zoom + immersive goggles = about 3sec of view of our 'lost and injured' cas before they disappeared back into the heather 600m from the drone and 1km from the pilot!

Tweed Valley MRT Scottish MR Autel Robotics #dronesforgood

❌ Callout 20 0f 2023 ❌ Tweed Valley MRT were called out in the Innerleithen area and supported by BSARU, Search & Rescue Aerial Association - Scotland and SARDA Southern Scotland. Stood down after the missing person was located safe outside the search area by Police Scotland. Here's our #drone team in action.

Our test Autel Robotics Evo Max 4T was used on its first operational flights with Tweed Valley MRT in a missing person search. The extended flight time allowed an extensive area to be covered and the worth of a superb zoom and the ability to generate coordinates was well proven.

Great interview with our training officer on how drones are making a difference with Galloway Mountain Rescue Team #dronesforgood Scottish MR
youtu.be/mS_VR6AX0vw

Great to speak to Fiordland SAR in NZ last night on how we are organised, our experiences of setting up a drone unit and some of our search tactics.

All this is voluntary with just cost of time, we don’t charge anything for this within the SAR community. checkout.justgiving.com/c/3320753

The Autel Robotics Evo Max 4T has been impressing. Here is 30s from starting a search for someone. A hasty search with the IR draws attention, visual camera takes over, ranging laser fired and a position generated (380m away!) to pass to control to go and rescue. #dronesforgood

Maiden flight for SARAA-10, our new Autel Robotics Evo Max 4T that we have for test and evaluation - so far..., so very good 😀
#dronesforgood

New drone day…. Massive thanks to Autel Robotics for arranging for us to test and evaluate the Evo Max 4T/4N for our operations. #dronesforgood #mountainrescue #searchandrescue #volunteers

Some fresh reading if you have an interest in #drone use in the emergency services #drone sforgood

emergencydroneresponder.com/issues/may-202…

👏🏼 to the tractor driver for these immaculate lines! A stunning evening to get some flying done ☀️🕶️