From first workshop to paid work
A career development programme that qualifies you as a drone pilot and lets you experience the industry before you choose your path.
How can we help you?
The programme qualifies you as a drone pilot and immerses you in a community of people with shared experiences, interests and aspirations. You will experience operations across several industries and gain skills that carry across all of them.
As you progress, you explore each field first-hand, so you can discover where your passion lies before deciding on your long-term career path.
- Surveying
- Asset inspection
- Media production
- Training & development
- Expeditions
Our framework
Six stages take you from your first workshop to qualified, paid work.
Skills introduction
Your basic skills introduction to the industry and its career pathways: what the work looks like, what suits you, and the road ahead.
Licences
Gain your official piloting qualifications, including the General Visual Line of Sight Certificate (GVC), with support throughout your course.
Advanced skills development
Structured programmes and remote advanced skills development, tailored to your preferred niche with regular contact from your mentor.
Projects & portfolio
Gain experience on real projects and build the portfolio that proves what you can do.
Community project
Expeditions and reality-capture work in remote environments, proving that our pilots can deliver survey work where others cannot reach.
Placement & employment
Move to Sky Based Specialists Ltd for your work placement, and into employment opportunities with SBS or our partners.
Life on the programme
Ready to start?
Sign up and we will invite you to the next introductory workshop.