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
1. Introduction to flight physics & dynamics.
2. Forces
3. Physics of Lift, Weight, Thrust, Drag, and Balance in VTOL UAVs
4. Principals of flight
5. Basic flight dynamics.
6. Forces Quiz
7. VTOL Flight phases
8. Aerodynamic surfaces
9. 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. 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. 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. Barbados airspaces.
13. Designated flight areas in Barbados.
14. Airport Designations.
15. Revision of units 3 & 4
1. Flight Controls
2. Trottle control video
3. Throttle motion
4. Understanding your flight control software.
5. Orientation (In the UAV space, what is it?
6. Orientation Quiz
7. Orientation using flight telemetry
8. Order of operations for drones.
9. Human factors in UAV flight operations
10. Digital Eagle CZ36 VTOL Overview.
11. 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. VTOL Maintenance
2. Repairs
1. Industrial Applications for modern UAVs
2. Specialized Applications: Gas detection.
3. Specialized Applications: Environmental monitoring.
4. Specialized Applications: Solar Inspections
5. Basic Mapping for solar inspections
6. Specialized Applications: Fire Fighting Operations
7. Specialized Applications: Water leak detection (NRW) Non revenue wastage
8. Specialized Applications: Precision Agriculture
9. Specialized Applications: Vector control
10. Specialized Applications: Photo & Video (General)
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. Flying by instruments IFR (Telemetry flight)
12. SAR Tutorial
13. Search & Rescue Operations
14. How to use Isotherms in SAR Operations.
15. CZ36 Simulator
16. CZ36 Ground Station Software
17. Revision Units 9 & 10
18. Space User Manual
19. Space UAV tutorial
1. Let's see if you understand everything so far.
2. Some lessons through questioning.
3. Practical Training Video
4. Practical preview
5. FINAL REVISION OF THE COURSE
6. Simulation Training
7. 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 5 CZ36 operating instructions
17. Resource 6 CZ36 preflight Checks
18. Resource 7 Space GCS software
19. Resource 8 AheadX Tutorial
20. Resource 9 Space GCS user interface
21. Resource 10 Mission Mapping using Space GCS
22. Resource 11 Waypoint planning with Space GCS
23. Resource 12 Flying UAVs at night
24. How to fold your landing pad.
25. Preflight Actions
26. Barometric pressure and altitude safety.
27. Remote GCS using DroneSense
28. Stalled
29. Space UAV GCS Application
30. How Fixed Wings work
31. Video Overview
32. Revision & practice tests. (These will be added by the instructor periodically)
33. Setup
34. Loading the Simulator
35. Mistakes
36. Simulated flight
37. Drone Deploy guide
38. Police Operations
39. Exam review
40. Student Satisfaction Survey
1. 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. UAV Night Operations
3. 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. T40 crash
8. Exercise care and preflight checks before takeoff.
9. Multi Task role with the T50
10. If you fail an exam or review.
11. Why UAV flight training is to be taken as a serious matter
12. How to recover from a stall spin. (Flat spin)
13. Animal control
14. Catapult launch for FW UAVs.
15. BVLOS training.
16. UAV application (Medical deliveries)
1. Windows Remote Access download.
2. Instructions on AnyDesk installation.
3. Simulator Remote Controlls.
4. Online Simulation.

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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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