Advantages
Pipistrel Surveyors are ideal for a wide variety of aerial tasks because of their specific design characteristics and they have many advantages:
• They are much less expensive to operate and use unleaded automotive fuel or Avgas
• They can take-off and land on grass or unprepared surfaces, not just hard runways
• They are very quiet, more than 50% quieter than a normal small aircraft
• In the air, they look like an inconspicuous sport/recreational aircraft and they are not treated suspiciously
• When piloted their high wing offer ideal views of the ground through enormous transparent doors
• They can be flown without the doors fitted, making them ideal so for visual aerial survey and hand photography
• They can be equipped with tundra wheels that allow take-off and landing from unprepared surfaces, no airport is needed
• They can be equipped with a ballistic rescue system, which saves the whole aircraft together with the crew if ever needed
• They can carry many different payloads, sensors and surveillance systems
• They can be easily dismantled in less than 15 minutes and stored in a dedicated trailer. Therefore, a hangar is not needed, and a regular vehicle can tow the aircraft in the trailer, no special transport is needed
• Because of the specific design philosophy, they need much less power than other comparable aircraft and consequentially provide extreme flight range even in the standard, basic configuration.

Missions:
The Pipistrel Surveyor offerings can be used for all the following missions, and more:
• Day and Night operations
• Border Surveillance and Control
• Locating poachers and unauthorised activity in National Parks and other wildlife areas
• Homeland Security
• Special Events Security
• All kinds of Surveillance including communications interception
• Moving target detection and tracking
• Traffic Observation
• Convoy protection
• Power/Oil/Pipeline Monitoring
• Fire/ Natural Disaster Management
• Disaster Help – Civilian Support
• Airborne Data Acquisition
• Pollution Control
• Crime prevention
• Wildlife Management
• Forest Protection and Management
• Seaport monitoring
• Maritime/Coastal Patrol
• SAR Operation and Victim discovery
• All kind of aerial photography
• Aerial cartography, 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional
• 3D terrain scanning, mining surveys, excavation quantity calculations etc
• 3D terrain modelling for future development, buildings, roads, railways etc

Pipistrel Platforms are highly efficient low-drag, high-wing composite construction monoplanes with a front-mounted engine, and enhanced aerodynamics, which permit also for unpowered gliding flight with high performance. The high cantilever wing makes the platforms ideal for surveillance. They are proven in the hardest operating conditions all over the world with permitted temperature from -20°C to + 50 °C.
Any Pipistrel platform manned aircraft can be configured as an optionally piloted vehicle (OPV), meaning that the aircraft can be flown by an onboard pilot, should this be desired, or as a pure unmanned aerial system (UAV) i.e. never having a provision for a pilot/person on board. This decision must be made early in the process, as it heavily influences the design of the platform and its features.

Pipistrel can offer further specialised Surveyor customized platforms, adapted to customers special needs with aircraft capable of:
• Flying at extreme altitudes (up to 30,000 feet)
• With extra-long range (up to 4500 km) and
• With endurance at cruise speed up to 30 hours
• Capable of take-off and landing from airfields higher than 4.500 meters
• MTOM up to 900 kg (special designed platforms for even higher requests can be designed and produced for our customers)

To be able to design the Platform according to the most suitable customer’s needs, we may require the following information:
• the requested aircraft certification in the target country for such aircraft and aerial work (type of certification)
• preferred range
• desired cruise speed
• desired top speed
• preferred endurance and at what speed
• desired ceiling
• planned highest landing altitude
• expected highest and lowest temperature for operation (in Celsius)
• Single pilot & operator crew (one set of flight controls) or twin crew (two sets of flight controls) if not UAV
• Preferred placement of the sensors, weights, sizes and required energy consumption.
• Any requested structural modifications and supports (SAR multiband sensors, GSM and satellite tracking systems, lidars and magnetometers)
• Requested modifications of the controls, servos and antennas position, additional power supply if UAV
• Requested modifications of the electric system and if additional power supply needed
• Cockpit avionics requirements IFR, VFR etc
• Special avionics requests (weather radar, lighting radar, long-wave radio, what redundancy is requested etc.)
• Integration of the payloads, flight control system, servos, etc done by Pipistrel or customer

Fleet experience and references:
Almost 200 of our Surveyors are already flying as OPV or UAV in different parts of the world. include:
Amazilia Aerospace GmbH-Germany
ARGUS Aviation Technologies AG-Switzerland
Beijing HXHD Science & Technology Co., Ltd-China
DZYNEtech-USA
Brigata Folgore Esercito Italiano-Italia
Government of Jharkhand-India
IIT Kampur-India
Indian Airforce-India
Indian Navy-India
King Abdullaziz KACST-Saudi Arabia
Quing An-China
Ministry of defense-China
Ministry of Interior-Slovakia
NASA-USA
SOCOM-USA – (more info: https://www.pipistrel-aircraft.com/pipistrels-surveyor-deployed-also-with-us-special-forces/ )
Tata Airspace-India
Technology Service Corp.-USA
US Airforce-USA
Weizhen Aviation Technology-China
Wings For Aid Foundation-Netherlands

MODEL	LASE (Low Altitude, Short Endurance)	LAME (Low Altitude, Medium Endurance)	MASE (Medium Altitude, Short Endurance)	MAME (Medium Altitude, Medium Endurance)	MALE (Medium Altitude, Long Endurance)	HALE (High Altitude, Long Endurance)
Wingspan	12.4 m	15 m	10.7 m	10.7 m	15 m	15 m
Removable wingtips	NO	YES	NO	NO	YES	YES
MTOM	600 kg @ 4.0 g	600 kg @ 4.0 g	600 kg @ 4.0 g	750 kg @ 3.8 g	Up to 850 kg @ 3.0 g	Up to 900 kg @ 2.5 g
MZFW	530 kg	530 kg	555 kg	600 kg	650 kg	770 kg
Fuel capacity	2 x 30 litres each tank	2 x 50 litres each tank	2 x 50 litres each tank	300 litres, carried in 4 tanks	370 litres, carried in 4 tanks	370 litres, carried in 4 tanks
Undercarriage	nose wheel type	nose wheel type	nose wheel type	nose wheel type	nose wheel type	tail wheel type
Certified engine	Rotax 912 A2, 80 hp, 2 Carb, V3 engine gearbox and governor	Rotax 912 A2, 80 hp, 2 Carb, V3 engine gearbox and governor	Rotax 912 S3, 100 hp, 2 Carb, V3 engine gearbox and governor	Rotax 912 iSc, 100 hp, fuel injection, V3 engine gearbox and governor	Rotax 912 iSc, 100 hp, fuel injection, V3 engine gearbox and governor	Rotax 914, 115 hp, turbocharged, intercooler for extreme altitude
Propeller	Pipistrel 2-blade, non-certified carbon fibre mechanical variable pitch & feathered	Pipistrel 2-blade, non-certified carbon fibre mechanical variable pitch & feathered	MTV-33-1-A/170-200, 2-blade, EASA certified hydraulic constant speed	MTV-33-1-A/170-200, 2-blade, EASA certified hydraulic constant speed	MTV-33-1-A/170-200, 2-blade, EASA certified hydraulic constant speed	MTV-34, 3-blade, EASA certified hydraulic constant speed
Baseline certification	Structure and system according to ASTM F2564.	Structure and system according to ASTM F2564.	Structure and systems EASA CS-LSA, modifications delta from baseline according to ASTM F2245	Structure and systems according to ASTM F2245 with elements of CS-VLA.	Structure and systems based on ASTM F2564.	Structure and systems based on ASTM F2564.
Performances/Limitations:
Max altitude	12,000 ft	12,000 ft	18,000 ft	18,000 ft	18,000 ft	30,000 ft capable, most mission time 18.000 ft
Typical operating altitudes	2,000 – 12,000 ft	2,000 – 12,000 ft	2,000 – 12,000 ft	2,000 – 12,000 ft	2,000 – 15,000 ft	10,000 – 22,000 ft
Speed in transfer to/from work area	110 KTAS	100 – 110 KTAS	120 – 130 KTAS	120 – 130 KTAS	100 – 110 KTAS	100 – 110 KIAS
Loitering speed	70 – 90 KIAS	50 – 75 KIAS	70 – 90 KIAS	70 – 90 KIAS	55 – 75 KIAS	65 – 80 KIAS
Endurance at transfer speeds	Up to 4 hours	Up to 6 hours	Up to 5 hours	Up to 15 hours	Up to 24 hours	Up to 20 hours
Endurance at loitering speeds	Up to 6 hours	Up to 8 hours	Up to 8hours	24+ hours	Up to 33 hours	Up to 25 hours
Gust load speed (turbulence penetration)	90 KCAS	86 KIAS	120 KCAS	120 KCAS	90 KCAS	87 KCAS
Airspeed limitation with equipment carried on external pods*	108 KCAS	108 KCAS	108 KCAS	108 KCAS	108 KCAS	108 KCAS