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. 🔹 What is a Drone Frame?
8. 🔹🚁 Main Parts of a Drone – Explained Simply
9. 🔹🚁 Main Parts of a VTOL Drone – Explained Simply
10. 🔹A summary-VTOL vs Multirotor vs Fixed Wing.
11. How brushless motors work
12. 🔹Brushless motor
13. 📌UAV Motors
14. 🔹 UAV Frequencies
15. 🔹Unit 1 Quiz
1. Introduction to flight physics & dynamics.
2. Principals of flight
3. Forces
4. 🔹Air Flow
5. 🔹 What is Bernoulli’s Theorem?
6. 🔹 How airplane wings really work.
7. 🔹Lift
8. Drag
9. Quick revision
10. 🔹 Angle of Attack - Component forces.
11. Stall
12. Basic flight dynamics.
13. 🔹 Ground Effect
14. 🔹🚁 Propellers: The Unsung Heroes of Every Drone Flight
15. 🔹🚁 Propellers & VTOL Drones:
16. Physics of Lift, Weight, Thrust, Drag, and Balance in VTOL UAVs
17. Maximum Takeoff Weight MTOW
18. Forces Quiz
19. Aerodynamic surfaces
20. 🧭 How GPS & Compass Work in UAVs
21. 🔹GPS keeps us steady in flight
22. VTOL Flight phases
23. Revision Training Principles: units 1 & 2
24. BNT Revision of Units 1 & 2
1. Pre-flight checks
2. Operational safety with your drone.
3. 🔹Return to home
4. Fly-Safe
5. UAV Safety
6. Personnels Safety
7. Right of way.
8. Right of way II
9. 🔹Right of way III
10. Understanding Overtaking Rules in Aviation! ✈️
11. 🔹 ✈️Flight level Vs Altitude
12. 🔹Heading Vs Track
13. 🔹Point of equal time
14. 🔹 Time , speed & distance
15. 🔹Pressure Altitude calculations
16. Statistics governing UAV operations.
1. 🔹Recreational Vs Commercial Operations
2. 🇧🇧 Know your Drone.
3. 🇧🇧 Drone laws of Barbados
4. 🇧🇧 Barbados DRAFT Drone legislation. (Proposed and under review.)
5. 🇧🇧 Spectrum Licence application
6. 🇧🇧 On-line Flight permission application.
7. 🇧🇧 Barbados airspaces.
8. 🇧🇧 Designated flight areas in Barbados.
9. 🇧🇸 Bahamas Civil Aviation Authority Documentation.
10. 🇧🇸 CAROPS
11. 🇧🇸 Bahamas Remote Piloted Aircraft Regulations
12. 🇩🇲 Dominica Civil Aviation Documentation
13. 🇪🇺 Revised EU/UK Regulations
14. 🇬🇩 Grenada Civil Aviation Documentation
15. 🇯🇲 Jamaica Civil Aviation Documentation
16. 🇱🇨 St. Lucia Civil Aviation Documentation
17. 🇱🇨St. Lucia Drone Operator's Registration Form
18. 🇻🇨 St. Vincent Civil Aviation Documentation
19. 🇺🇸 Air Space Classifications.
20. 🇺🇸 Sectionals
21. 🇺🇸 Airspace classes made easy.
22. 🇺🇸 Airspace Walkthrough
23. 🇺🇸 Echo Airspace
24. 🇺🇸 More on Echo
25. 🇺🇸 Understanding FAA Air Space.
26. 🇺🇸 Answer this Air Space question.
27. 🇺🇸 Pt 107 Chart reading Questions.
28. 🇺🇸 What happens when a control tower closes.
29. 🇨🇦 cnop-10.0-17-apr-2025
30. 🇨🇦 Canadian Airspace explained.
31. 🇨🇦 Reading VFR charts for UAV pilots. (Canada Transport)
32. Airport ICAO code Designations.
33. NOTAMS.
34. 🔹METARS
35. 🔹Hazards Vs Risks
36. 🔹Drones General Assessment in LAC
37. 🔹International Insurance
38. Revision of units 3 & 4
39. 🔹Revision
1. Flight Controls
2. Trottle control video
3. 🔹Duel Stick Control
4. Throttle motion
5. RC instructional video
6. Understanding your flight control software.
7. Using DJI GO4
8. DJI Pilot 2
9. The DJI Fly app
10. Orientation (In the UAV space, what is it?
11. Orientation Quiz
12. Orientation using flight telemetry
13. Order of operations for drones.
14. Human factors in UAV flight operations
15. 🔹 Dangerous Attitudes.
16. Transport Canada Human Factors.
17. Digital Eagle CZ36 VTOL Overview.
18. 🔹 Pilot tubes
19. 🔹Pitot tube (Pilot tube)
20. 🔹 Transponders
21. Important UAV flight conditions information.
22. 🔹ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SET YOUR RTH
23. 🔹DJI UAV ranges
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
4. 🔹Battery Management
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
17. 🔹Specialized Applications Life saving
18. 🔹What do I need to do to function as a professional service provider.
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. 🔹Dron Simulator
19. Revision Units 9 & 10
20. Space User Manual
21. Space UAV tutorial
22. CZ36: Setting the home point and creating the landing path
23. 🔹 Useful UAV apps 1
24. 🔹 Useful UAV apps 2
25. 🔹 Useful UAV apps 3
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. Practice Quiz
12. Simulation Training
13. The Practical Examination.
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. Some useful apps for UAV Flight Teams
12. Remote Pilot Study Guide
13. PIC Operations over people & vehicles.
14. BNT Resource 1 CZ36 Maintenance manual
15. BNT Resource 2 GCS Manual
16. BNT Resource 3 Fast Operations manual
17. Resource 4 CZ36 assembly
18. Resource DJI Mavic 3T user manual download.
19. Resource 5 CZ36 operating instructions
20. Resource 6 CZ36 preflight Checks
21. Resource 7 Space GCS software
22. Resource 8 AheadX Tutorial
23. Resource 9 Space GCS user interface
24. Resource 10 Mission Mapping using Space GCS
25. Resource 11 Waypoint planning with Space GCS
26. Resource 12 Flying UAVs at night
27. Resource 13 DJI Dock 2
28. How to fold your landing pad.
29. Preflight Actions
30. Barometric pressure and altitude safety.
31. 🔹True Vs Magnetic North
32. Remote GCS using DroneSense
33. Stalled
34. Space UAV GCS Application
35. How Fixed Wings work
36. Video Overview
37. Revision & practice tests. (These will be added by the instructor periodically)
38. Setup
39. DJI specific interpretation of LED status lights.
40. Loading the Simulator
41. Mistakes
42. Simulated flight
43. Drone Deploy tutorial
44. Hammer Missions tutorial
45. QGIS tutorial
46. QGIS Manual
47. QGIS Training data
48. Spacial data for Barbados
49. Barbados maps & overlays
50. Police Operations Consultation
51. Police Operations
52. Exam review
53. Student Satisfaction Survey
1. General Weather lesson.
2. Clouds.
3. 🔹 ☁️ Base Vs Ceiling clouds
4. 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.
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. Basic Knowledge test for Barbados.
2. Barbados Advanced.Assessment
3. St. Lucia UAV exam
4. Transport Canada Advanced Exam Guide.
5. Flight optimization using desktop modelilng in Python code.
6. My Knowledge & Skills ecosystem.
7. Important News as at 6 June 2025.
8. Universal Docks
9. 🔹Hand Landing & Auto shutoff
10. 🔹FPV at the Olympics
11. Drones in hot temperatures.
12. How to discourage bird atacks.
13. Angle of Attack and Stall
14. 🔹 The importance of the pilot tube
15. 🔹Public Safety Consultation (Drone Sense)
16. 🔹 Military Drone Operations
17. Relax with some humor.

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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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