Essentially, the drone will allow FPL to get the right crews and the right equipment to the right place, speeding up restoration efforts considerably. This is because FPLAir One can withstand tropical storm force winds, and can gather real-time information to identify the causes of outages even before lineworkers are able to safely begin restoring power. The drone can also quickly provide ground crews with critical information to get the lights back on following severe weather events. During its 20 hours of flight time, the drone can capture thousands of high-quality images and videos of electric infrastructure, helping the FPL crews to identify potential issues before an outage occurs. With its wingspan slightly longer than that of a Cessna, FPLAir One is capable of flying from South Florida to North Florida to the panhandle and back, on a single flight. The launch of the FPLAir One, the utility adds, is a milestone in itself because no other uncrewed aircraft of its size has ever been used before for commercial purposes outside of an FAA test site. Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), an electric utility that serves more than 12 million people in Florida, says its $1.2 million FPLAir One drone is ready for primetime.
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