UAV pilot certification

UAV Piloting course.

Course curriculum

1. UAV History
2. Types of UAVs
3. Data terms.
4. UAV Applications & Technology
5. UAV Components
6. Flight components
7. How brushless motors work
1. Introduction to flight physics & dynamics.
2. Forces
3. Physics of Lift, Weight, Thrust, Drag, and Balance in VTOL UAVs
4. Drag
5. Principals of flight
6. Basic flight dynamics.
7. Ground Effect
8. Maximum Takeoff Weight MTOW
9. Stall
10. Angle of Attack - Component forces.
11. Forces Quiz
12. VTOL Flight phases
13. Aerodynamic surfaces
14. Revision of Units 1 & 2
1. Pre-flight checks
2. Operational safety with your drone.
3. Fly-Safe
4. UAV Safety
5. Personnels Safety
6. Right of way.
7. Right of way II
8. Understanding Overtaking Rules in Aviation! ✈️
9. Statistics governing UAV operations.
1. Know your Drone.
2. Spectrum Licence application
3. Drone laws of Barbados
4. On-line Flight permission application.
5. CAROPS
6. cnop-10.0-17-apr-2025
7. Barbados DRAFT Drone legislation. (Proposed and under review.)
8. Bahamas Civil Aviation Authority Documentation.
9. Bahamas Remote Piloted Aircraft Regulations
10. St. Lucia Civil Aviation Documentation
11. Air Space Classifications.
12. Airspace classes made easy.
13. Airspace Walkthrough
14. Echo Airspace
15. More on Echo
16. Understanding FAA Air Space.
17. Answer this Air Space question.
18. Pt 107 Chart reading Questions.
19. Canadian Airspace explained.
20. Reading VFR charts for UAV pilots. (Canada Transport)
21. NOTAMS.
22. What happens when a control tower closes.
23. Barbados airspaces.
24. Designated flight areas in Barbados.
25. Airport Designations.
26. Revision of units 3 & 4
1. Flight Controls
2. Trottle control video
3. Throttle motion
4. RC instructional video
5. Understanding your flight control software.
6. Orientation (In the UAV space, what is it?
7. Orientation Quiz
8. Orientation using flight telemetry
9. Order of operations for drones.
10. Human factors in UAV flight operations
11. Dangerous Attitudes.
12. Transport Canada Human Factors.
13. Digital Eagle CZ36 VTOL Overview.
14. Pilot tubes
15. Important UAV flight conditions information.
1. Types of sensors and cameras for UAVs
2. Methods for capturing UAV images and data
3. Post processing and analysis of UAV collected data
4. The Camera systems
5. Revision of units 5 & 6
1. Return to Home issues.
2. VTOL Maintenance
3. Repairs
1. Specialized Applications: How VTOLs work.
2. Industrial Applications for modern UAVs
3. Specialized Applications: Gas detection.
4. Specialized Applications: Environmental monitoring.
5. Specialized Applications: Solar Inspections
6. Basic Mapping for solar inspections
7. Specialized Applications: Fire Fighting Operations
8. Specialized Applications: Water leak detection (NRW) Non revenue wastage
9. Specialized Applications: Precision Agriculture
10. Specialized Applications: Vector control
11. Specialized Applications: Photo & Video (General)
12. Specialized Applications: Real Estate
13. Specialized Applications: Law enforcement
14. Specialized Applications: Wildlife/Park rangers
15. Specialized Applications: Drone shows.
16. Specialized Applications: Drone Light Shows
1. Using GCS for BVLOS
2. logs are important.
3. Battery Maintenance Log.
4. The usage of Infrared technology
5. Revision Units 7, 8 & 9 to lec 4
6. The use of thermal imagery and bracketing
7. Patrol Operations
8. Waypoint Mapping
9. Area Mapping
10. Area Waypoint Mission planning
11. Introduction to Terrain follow
12. Flying by instruments IFR (Telemetry flight)
13. SAR Tutorial
14. Search & Rescue Operations
15. How to use Isotherms in SAR Operations.
16. CZ36 Simulator
17. CZ36 Ground Station Software
18. Revision Units 9 & 10
19. Space User Manual
20. Space UAV tutorial
21. CZ36: Setting the home point and creating the landing path
1. Let's see if you understand everything so far.
2. Do you understand lift?
3. Do you know the ATC, equipment, and VFR weather requirements for Class C airspace? 🤔
4. Do you understand Air Space?
5. Do you understand angle of attack?
6. Some lessons through questioning.
7. Practical Training Video
8. How to exicute a manual Orbit
9. Practical preview
10. FINAL REVISION OF THE COURSE
11. Simulation Training
12. The Practical Examination.
1. The phonetic alphabet
2. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
3. Wind direction and speed
4. Mandatory Flight Team Rest Periods
5. Prohibited behaviors
6. SORA
7. DJI Agras T40 usage instructional video.
8. Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS)
9. Some useful apps for UAV Flight Teams
10. Remote Pilot Study Guide
11. PIC Operations over people & vehicles.
12. BNT Resource 1 CZ36 Maintenance manual
13. BNT Resource 2 GCS Manual
14. BNT Resource 3 Fast Operations manual
15. Resource 4 CZ36 assembly
16. Resource DJI Mavic 3T user manual download.
17. Resource 5 CZ36 operating instructions
18. Resource 6 CZ36 preflight Checks
19. Resource 7 Space GCS software
20. Resource 8 AheadX Tutorial
21. Resource 9 Space GCS user interface
22. Resource 10 Mission Mapping using Space GCS
23. Resource 11 Waypoint planning with Space GCS
24. Resource 12 Flying UAVs at night
25. Resource 13 DJI Dock 2
26. How to fold your landing pad.
27. Preflight Actions
28. Barometric pressure and altitude safety.
29. Remote GCS using DroneSense
30. Stalled
31. Space UAV GCS Application
32. How Fixed Wings work
33. Video Overview
34. Revision & practice tests. (These will be added by the instructor periodically)
35. Setup
36. DJI specific interpretation of LED status lights.
37. Loading the Simulator
38. Mistakes
39. Simulated flight
40. Drone Deploy guide
41. Police Operations
42. Exam review
43. Student Satisfaction Survey
1. General Weather lesson.
2. Wind, KP & Temperature
1. What is your flight review.
2. What is required
3. The Importance of checklists
4. Airport designations
5. The Site survey document
6. What criteria are used for assessing the flight review.
1. Introduction to Night Flying.
2. Night Navigation Lights.
3. UAV Night Operations
4. Night Flying Course
1. Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
2. Typical Agricultural landscape in Barbados.
3. Spraying operations
4. Small area manual flight spraying.
5. T40 Workflow 1
6. T40 Workflow 2
7. T40 Ground station setup
8. Precision Agriculture Incident Statistics
1. When a UAV battery detaches.
2. Maintenance is essential
3. Continuous inovation
4. New UAV proposed rules 6 June 2025
5. Digital Eagle CZ36 setup.
6. Bird Strikes
7. Pay Attention when taking your written exam.
8. T40 crash
9. Exercise care and preflight checks before takeoff.
10. Multi Task role with the T50
11. Pay close attention to the wording of your questions.
12. If you fail an exam or review.
13. Why UAV flight training is to be taken as a serious matter
14. How to recover from a stall spin. (Flat spin)
15. Animal control
16. DroneSense
17. Catapult launch for FW UAVs.
18. Formation Flight Path Planning
19. BVLOS training.
20. UAV application (Medical deliveries)
21. The integration of UAVs in the Fire Service.
22. Drone Search & Rescue.
23. COA vs. Pt. 107 for public agencies.
24. Drone optimization using python coding.
1. Windows Remote Access download.
2. Instructions on AnyDesk installation.
3. Simulator Remote Controlls.
4. Online Simulation.
1. Transport Canada Advanced Exam Guide.
2. Flight optimization using desktop modelilng in Python code.
3. My Knowledge & Skills ecosystem.
4. Important News as at 6 June 2025.
5. Universal Docks
6. Drones in hot temperatures.
7. How to discourage bird atacks.
8. Angle of Attack and Stall
9. The importance of the pilot tube

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UAV pilot certification

Course curriculum

Unit 1: Introduction to UAVs

Unit 2: Principals of flight

Unit 3: Safety procedures & best practices

Unit 4: Regulations

Unit 5: UAV operation

Unit 6: Image & data capture

Unit 7: Troubleshooting

Unit 8: Industry applications

Unit 9: Pratical applications

Unit 10: Final evaluation and summary

APPENDICIES

Meteorological considerations

Flight Review

Part 107 Night Flying Course 107NFC

Precision Agriculture

Illustration Videos

Remote online flight simulation.

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