UAV pilot certification

UAV Piloting course.

Course curriculum

1. Take a look at CP
2. Botanical
3. Countdown timer 2
4. World of UAVs
5. NTRIP
6. Session Opener
7. 3m Countdown timer
8. Countdown timer
9. Countdown timer 3
10. Countdown timer 4
11. Course outline.
12. UAV Level II promotion.
1. UAV History
2. The history of DJI
3. 👉Types of UAVs
4. Drone Class labels
5. 👉Data terms.
6. 👉UAV Applications & Technology
7. 👉UAV Components
8. UAV components schematic
9. 👉Flight Components
10. 👉🔹 What is a Drone Frame?
11. 👉🔹🚁 Main Parts of a Drone – Explained Simply
12. 🔹🚁 Main Parts of a VTOL Drone – Explained Simply
13. 🔹A summary-VTOL vs Multirotor vs Fixed Wing.
14. How brushless motors work
15. 👉🔹Brushless motor
16. 📌UAV Motors
17. 👉🔹 UAV Frequencies
18. 🚁 Parts of a UAV – Understanding the Technology Behind Flight
19. 🔹Unit 1 Quiz
20. Revision test 1
1. Introduction to flight physics & dynamics.
2. Principals of flight
3. The Science of flight
4. 👉Forces
5. 🔹Air Flow
6. 👉🔹 What is Bernoulli’s Theorem?
7. 🔹 How airplane wings really work.
8. 🔹Lift
9. Drag
10. Quick revision
11. 🔹 Angle of Attack - Component forces.
12. Stall
13. 👉Basic flight dynamics.
14. 🔹 Ground Effect
15. 🔹🚁 Propellers: The Unsung Heroes of Every Drone Flight
16. 🔹🚁 Propellers & VTOL Drones:
17. More on Propellers
18. 👉Physics of Lift, Weight, Thrust, Drag, and Balance in VTOL UAVs
19. Maximum Takeoff Weight MTOW
20. Forces Quiz
21. Aerodynamic surfaces
22. 🧭 How GPS & Compass Work in UAVs
23. 🔹GPS keeps us steady in flight
24. VTOL
25. VTOL Flight phases
26. Revision Training Principles: units 1 & 2
27. BNT Revision of Units 1 & 2
28. Revision test 2
1. 👉Pre-flight checks
2. Operational safety with your drone.
3. Return to Home RTH
4. 🔹Return to home
5. RTH question
6. 👉Fly-Safe
7. Flying over people or vehicles.
8. 👉UAV Safety
9. UAV Range Safety
10. Personnels Safety
11. Right of way.
12. 👉Right of way II
13. 🔹Right of way III
14. Understanding Overtaking Rules in Aviation! ✈️
15. 👉🔹UAV safety guide
16. 🔹 ✈️Flight level Vs Altitude
17. 🔹Heading Vs Track
18. 🔹Point of equal time
19. 🔹 Time , speed & distance
20. 🔹Pressure Altitude calculations
21. Statistics governing UAV operations.
22. Revision test 3
1. The remote Controller.
2. 👉Build competence by developing Muscle Memory
3. Throttle control video
4. 🔹Duel Stick Control
5. Stick Movements
6. Throttle motion
7. RC instructional video
8. Course simulator.
9. Understanding your flight control software.
10. Using DJI GO4
11. DJI Pilot 2
12. The DJI Fly app
13. Orientation (In the UAV space, what is it?
14. Orientation Quiz
15. Orientation using flight telemetry
16. 👉Order of operations for drones.
17. Battery Hot Swapping
18. The UAV Flight Data Sheet (FDS)
19. Human factors in UAV flight operations
20. Flying impaired
21. 🔹 Dangerous Attitudes.
22. Operation guide
23. Using your UAV Gimbal as a steadyCam
24. Transport Canada Human Factors.
25. Digital Eagle CZ36 VTOL Overview.
26. 🔹 Pilot tubes
27. 🔹Pitot tube (Pilot tube)
28. 🔹 Transponders
29. Important UAV flight conditions information.
30. 🔹ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SET YOUR RTH
31. 🔹DJI UAV ranges
32. Most common pilot errors
33. Revision test 4
34. Movario
35. Know how GPS works.
1. 🔹Recreational Vs Commercial Operations
2. The basic courtesy rules for PIC's
3. 👉🇧🇧 Know your Drone.
4. 👉🇧🇧 Drone laws of Barbados
5. 🇧🇧 Barbados DRAFT Drone legislation. (Proposed and under review.)
6. 👉🇧🇧 Spectrum Licence application
7. Online application for UAV Spectrum license
8. 👉🇧🇧 On-line Flight permission application.
9. 👉🇧🇧 Barbados airspaces.
10. 🇧🇧 Designated flight areas in Barbados.
11. 🇧🇧The Official Gazette related to UAV operations in Barbados
12. 🇧🇸 Bahamas Civil Aviation Authority Documentation.
13. 🇧🇸 CAROPS
14. 🇧🇸 Bahamas Remote Piloted Aircraft Regulations
15. 🇩🇲 Dominica Civil Aviation Documentation
16. 🇪🇺 Revised EU/UK Regulations
17. 🇬🇩 Grenada Civil Aviation Documentation
18. 🇯🇲 Jamaica Civil Aviation Documentation
19. 🇱🇨 St. Lucia Civil Aviation Documentation
20. 🇱🇨St. Lucia Drone Operator's Registration Form
21. 🇻🇨 St. Vincent Civil Aviation Documentation
22. 🇺🇸 Air Space Classifications.
23. 🇺🇸 Sectionals
24. 🇺🇸Sectionals made simple
25. 🇺🇸 Airspace classes made easy.
26. 🇺🇸 Airspace Walkthrough
27. 🇺🇸 Echo Airspace
28. 🇺🇸 More on Echo
29. 🇺🇸 Understanding FAA Air Space.
30. 🇺🇸Airspace Simplified
31. 🇺🇸 Answer this Air Space question.
32. 🇺🇸 Pt 107 Chart reading Questions.
33. 🇺🇸 What happens when a control tower closes.
34. 🇨🇦 cnop-10.0-17-apr-2025
35. 🇨🇦 Canadian Airspace explained.
36. 🇨🇦 Reading VFR charts for UAV pilots. (Canada Transport)
37. Airport ICAO code Designations.
38. NOTAMS.
39. 🇧🇧 What you need to know in Barbados about Airspace.
40. 👉🇧🇧Reading the NOTAM.
41. 🔹METARS
42. Another look at METARs
43. And yet another look
44. 👉🔹Hazards Vs Risks
45. 🔹Drones General Assessment in LAC
46. 🔹International Insurance
47. Revision of units 3 & 4
48. 🔹Revision
49. Revision test 5
1. Master Class Images and Sensors
2. Types of sensors and cameras for UAVs
3. Methods for capturing UAV images and data
4. Setting & using your camera
5. Histogram Explained
6. 👉Post processing and analysis of UAV collected data
7. 👉The Camera systems
8. Why AI is important for UAV operations
9. Revision of units 5 & 6
10. Revision test 6
1. Return to Home issues.
2. Drone Maintenance
3. Firmware Updates
4. VTOL Maintenance
5. Repairs
6. Gimbal issues
7. They look insignificant but serve a purpose
8. 🔹Battery Management
9. Battery Safety
10. Battery Check
11. Battery charging
12. Battery Storage
13. Battery life projections
14. UAV Maintenance
15. Revision test 7
16. Maintenance test
1. Specialized Applications: How VTOLs work.
2. Industrial Applications for modern UAVs
3. Specialized Applications Construction progress monitoring
4. Specialized Applications: Cell tower inspections
5. Specialized Applications: Gas detection.
6. Specialized Applications: Environmental monitoring.
7. Specialized Applications: Solar Inspections
8. Specialized Applications: Power Washing
9. Basic Mapping for solar inspections
10. Specialized Applications: Fire Fighting Operations
11. Specialized Applications: Water leak detection (NRW) Non revenue wastage
12. Specialized Applications: Precision Agriculture
13. Specialized Applications: Vector control
14. Specialized Applications: Photo & Video (General)
15. Specialized Applications: Real Estate
16. Specialized Applications: Law enforcement
17. Specialized Applications: Wildlife/Park rangers
18. Specialized Applications: Drone shows.
19. UAV Light Show
20. Specialized Applications: Drone Light Shows
21. 🔹Specialized Applications Life saving
22. Camera Settings
23. Camera angle basics.
24. 📏 Leading Lines – Guide Your Viewer's Eye Like a Pro!
25. The rule of thirds
26. Low angle explained
27. Duch Angle
28. Bird's-Eye view
29. Eye Level
30. ND filters explained
31. Motion blur explained
32. Bitrate explained
33. Overexposure vs Underexposure
34. Histogram explained
35. Most common beginner Camera mistakes
36. Jamaica Eye
37. Crop Over Surveillance
38. Drone violation
39. 🔹What do I need to do to function as a professional service provider.
40. Revision test 8
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. Pre-Planning
9. 👉Waypoint Mapping
10. Area Mapping
11. 👉Area Waypoint Mission planning
12. Introduction to Terrain follow
13. Flying by instruments IFR (Telemetry flight)
14. SAR Tutorial
15. Search & Rescue Operations
16. How to use Isotherms in SAR Operations.
17. CZ36 Simulator
18. CZ36 Ground Station Software
19. 🔹Drone Simulator
20. Revision Units 9 & 10
21. Space User Manual
22. Space UAV tutorial
23. CZ36: Setting the home point and creating the landing path
24. 🔹 Useful UAV apps 1
25. 🔹 Useful UAV apps 2
26. 🔹 Useful UAV apps 3
27. BajanSky
28. Revision test 9
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 execute a manual Orbit
9. Practical preview
10. FINAL REVISION OF THE COURSE
11. 👉Practice Quiz
12. Final Theory Exam
13. Simulation Training
14. UAV Practical Testing Standards.
15. The Practical Examination.
16. Revision test 10
1. 🔹Flying in crowded UAV airspace
2. The phonetic alphabet
3. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
4. Miles
5. Wind direction and speed
6. Mandatory Flight Team Rest Periods
7. Prohibited behaviors
8. SORA
9. DJI Agras T40 usage instructional video.
10. Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS)
11. Flying in cinfined spaces
12. Some useful apps for UAV Flight Teams
13. Remote Pilot Study Guide
14. PIC Operations over people & vehicles.
15. BNT Resource 1 CZ36 Maintenance manual
16. BNT Resource 2 GCS Manual
17. BNT Resource 3 Fast Operations manual
18. Resource 4 CZ36 assembly
19. Resource DJI Mavic 3T user manual download.
20. Resource 5 CZ36 operating instructions
21. Resource 6 CZ36 preflight Checks
22. Resource 7 Space GCS software
23. Resource 8 AheadX Tutorial
24. Resource 9 Space GCS user interface
25. Resource 10 Mission Mapping using Space GCS
26. Resource 11 Waypoint planning with Space GCS
27. Resource 12 Flying UAVs at night
28. Resource 13 DJI Dock 2
29. Do you need a landing pad?
30. How to fold your landing pad.
31. Preflight Actions
32. Barometric pressure and altitude safety.
33. 🔹True Vs Magnetic North
34. Remote GCS using DroneSense
35. Stalled
36. Space UAV GCS Application
37. How Fixed Wings work
38. Video Overview
39. Revision & practice tests. (These will be added by the instructor periodically)
40. Setup
41. DJI specific interpretation of LED status lights.
42. Loading the Simulator
43. Mistakes
44. Simulated flight
45. Drone Deploy tutorial
46. Hammer Missions tutorial
47. QGIS tutorial
48. QGIS Manual
49. QGIS Training data
50. A look at DJI Terra. (Software version is Windows only)
51. Spacial data for Barbados
52. Barbados maps & overlays
53. Police Operations Consultation
54. Police Operations
55. Exam review
56. Student Satisfaction Survey
1. 👉General Weather lesson.
2. Weather in Barbados & UAV Operations
3. Clouds.
4. 🔹 ☁️ Base Vs Ceiling clouds
5. 👉Wind, KP & Temperature
1. What is your flight review.
2. Flight review brieffing
3. What is required
4. Flight Review Maneuvers
5. Flight Review Maneuvers Assessment Sheet
6. The Importance of checklists
7. UAV practical testing standards
8. Airport designations
9. The Site survey document
10. 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
5. Camera night settings
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.
25. 🔹Some of the future technologies for UAVs
26. 🔹Aviation today.
1. Windows Remote Access download.
2. Instructions on AnyDesk installation.
3. Simulator Remote Controlls.
4. Online Simulation.
1. UAV Purchase Decisions
1. 12 Common Mistakes New UAV Pilots Make.
2. 👉Knowledge test for Barbados.
3. Barbados Advanced.Assessment
4. St. Lucia UAV exam
5. Transport Canada Advanced Exam Guide.
6. Flight optimization using desktop modelilng in Python code.
7. My Knowledge & Skills ecosystem.
8. Important News as at 6 June 2025.
9. Universal Docks
10. UAV Parachute
11. 🔹Hand Landing & Auto shutoff
12. 🔹FPV at the Olympics
13. Drones in hot temperatures.
14. How to discourage bird atacks.
15. Angle of Attack and Stall
16. 🔹 The importance of the pilot tube
17. 🔹Public Safety Consultation (Drone Sense)
18. 🔹 Military Drone Operations
19. Relax with some humor.
20. Course Textbook
21. Course eBook
1. Countdown timer 1
2. From Flight to Survey-Grade Maps: A UAV Operator's Guide to Precision
3. Introduction
4. Lesson 1 — Foundations: From Pilot to Mapping Operator
5. Lesson 2 — Coordinate Reference Systems, Datums & Heights
6. Lesson 3 — Photogrammetry Principles: How Pictures Become Maps
7. Lesson 4 — Mission Planning for Mapping
8. Lesson 5 — Ground Control: GCPs, Checkpoints & GNSS/RTK
9. Lesson 6 — Flight Operations & Data Capture Quality Assurance
10. Lesson 7 — Photogrammetric Processing
11. Lesson 8 — Accuracy Assessment & Quality Control
12. Lesson 9 — Producing Deliverables: Raster & Vector Products
13. Lesson 10 — Client Delivery, Reporting & Professional Practice
14. Quality Assurance (QA)
15. Level II Textbook
16. Solar Inspections
17. Agriculture
18. Drones in Surveying
19. Ploting Multiple sites from a spreadsheet.
20. Understanding UTM
21. DST vs DTM
22. Orthomosaic mapping
23. LiDAR Penetration vs Canopy Density
24. LIDAR Penetration
25. LIDAR Penetration video.
1. Intro, Outline, Units 1 & 2
2. Unit 3
3. Unit 4
4. Unit 5
5. Unit 6
6. Unit 7
7. Unit 8
8. Unit 9
9. Unit 10
10. Unit 11
11. Unit 12
12. Unit 13
13. Unit 14 (Final)
14. Mastering Manual Camera Settings
15. DJI White Balance Video-Manual
16. White Balance Mastery
17. Image Formats and when to use them
18. Mastering Jam Syncing
1. The Caribbean Drone Camp 2026
1. Flying near buildings.
2. Propeller inspection.
3. The LEDs on UAVs
4. Point Cloud Example.
5. Aperture Explained
6. Obstacle Awareness
7. Airspace
8. VLOS & EVLOS vs BVLOS
9. UAV Roles.
10. UAVs in Disaster Management.
1. The professional Pathway
2. Level II course.
3. Drone Sales
4. AirOps promo
1. UAV pilot mission planning.
2. CPNet Document Management
3. Certification Management
4. Group Account Management
5. CPNet AirOps CRM
6. CPNet Assets register
7. Quote Builder
8. Agricultural Spraying app
9. Fleet battery health tracker
10. DelvPlat
11. T10 GEOD corrections
12. Data Varification Gate
13. RSME QC
14. Client Survey Deliverable Package Generator.
15. BajanSky app
16. SargaScope
1. Solar Inspection Manual
2. Survey Workflow
3. UAS_Thermography
4. Road Reserve Corridor Mapping
5. Terra Manual CPN-TR-2026-04
6. Sample Solar Report
7. Proof of concept Exercise.
8. EPSG21291 projection reference
9. TriCaster Workflow
10. GCP QA Gate
1. Mapping practice data
1. Introduction
2. Course outline
3. Airside Operations module 1 (Environment & Airspace)
4. Airside Operations module 2 (Regulation, SMS & Risk Assessment)
5. Airside Operations module 3 (Airside conduct)
6. Airside Operations module 4 (Interference & Failsafes)
7. Airside Operations module 5 (Weather & Environment TBPB)
8. Airside Operations module 6 (CRM, Comms & Emergencies)
9. Airside Operations module 7 (Core flight proficiency) [Optional]
10. Airside Operations module 8 (Runway & Tarmac mapping)
11. Airside Operations module 9 (Airfield Inspections)
12. Airside Operations module 10 (Perimeter, wildlife & obstacle surveys)
13. Airside Operations module 11 (Thermal imaging)
14. Airside Operations module 12 (Night Ops)
15. Airside Operations module 13 (Exercises & Assignment)
1. Running a UAV Business
2. Running a UAV Business illustrated
3. AirOps SMS
4. SMS illustrated
5. Operations Manual
6. Operations illustrated

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Course curriculum

Platform Assets

Unit 1: Introduction to UAVs

Unit 2: Principals of flight

Unit 3: Safety procedures & best practices

Unit 4: UAV operation

Unit 5: Regulations

Unit 6: Image & data capture

Unit 7: Troubleshooting & Maintenance

Unit 8: Industry applications

Unit 9: Apps that aid Operations

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.

UAV Purchase decisions

Other Information

LEVEL II COURSES

Photography Specialisation

CERMES Caribbean Drone Hub

Alternative Level I Lectures

Promotional Videos.

CPNet Internal Administration

Manuals

Course Resources

Airside Operations

Business Operations for a UAV provider

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