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News, reports from exercises and operations, and guides from the FLAARE team.
Eight drone teams in one forest. A report from the “Wspólny Ślad 2026” exercise
A dozen or so dog teams, foot teams, quads and eight drone teams searched for eight missing people in the forests of Brzostek municipality during the “Wspólny Ślad 2026” exercise. The drone teams were coordinated in FLAARE, and the training session on the role of the Aerial Operations Coordinator was run by the uStrażaka.pl team.
Importing DJI logs: from the controller to the flight logbook in five minutes
Every flight leaves a file in the DJI controller with the route, times and altitudes. Upload those files to FLAARE and the logbook entries create themselves. Step by step: where the logs are, how to upload them all at once and what is left to fill in.
KOL in practice: what a coordination session looks like
Several units, several drones, one map. What to set up before an operation, what the coordinator sees within a 10 km radius, how areas reach the pilots and what happens when the session ends.
The flight logbook in a volunteer fire brigade: obligation, good practice or a waste of time?
The rules do not always require a flight logbook explicitly. A unit that flies a drone on operations should keep one anyway. What the law says, what practice suggests and how not to lose evenings over it.
What FLAARE is and what it is not
A drone management system for a whole organisation, not an app for the pilot. Runs in a browser, nothing to install. What it does, what it does not do and who it is for.
Why a volunteer fire brigade needs a drone system, not just a drone
Buying the drone is the easy part. The hard part comes later: who flew, with what, when, and what condition the equipment is in. Without those answers a unit has a drone, but no process.
Seven drones over one lake. A report from the “Codename LAKE 2026” exercise
Several services, one area, one screen. During the exercise on Lake Międzybrodzkie every flight was run in FLAARE, and the coordinator saw every aircraft in real time.
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