Drone Drivers: Adding Wings to Industrial Development

Debugging, taking off, spraying, landing, and seeing Boucharemu Awla, she was proficiently testing a plant protection drone in the field. 37 year old Busharemu Awla is a villager from Langan Village, Yuqiwusitang Township, Kuche City, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang. She works as a drone driver.

A drone pilot is a person who drives a drone to complete a predetermined flight mission through remote control equipment. In recent years, with the maturity of drone technology, drone pilots have become an emerging profession, and fields such as agriculture, forestry and plant protection, power inspection, aviation surveying and mapping, film and television aerial photography have become popular in the industry. The application fields of drones are constantly expanding, bringing huge changes to traditional production and lifestyle, and the market prospects are broad, “said Buzaremu Awla.

Choosing a career that you love, sometimes only requires one thought. Buzaremu Awla joined the Forest and Fruit Cooperative in 2014 and quickly became proficient in driving tractors, applying medicine, and pruning fruit trees. By chance, she saw a plant protection drone spraying medicine in the field, and at that time, she had the idea of becoming a drone pilot.

Becoming a drone pilot is not an easy task. Not only do you need to learn to control drones to complete established flight tasks, but you also need to learn to install and debug drone power equipment, plan routes according to tasks, inspect, maintain, and organize drones and mission equipment.

After completing his studies, Boucharemu Awla took the initiative to promote drone defense operations in the fields. At the beginning, start with familiar neighbors and friends, and introduce the benefits of plant protection drone operation to them. Not only is the operation efficiency high, but it can also increase production. “Busharemu Awla said that if the other party is interested, she will use plant protection drones to conduct flight prevention experiments on some fields. After seeing the effectiveness of the homework, everyone ultimately recognized this method of homework.