Drone Assistive Programme

The Drone Assistive Programme is our hybrid industry-specific training model, delivering on-site mentorship to ensure your pilots can operate safely and competently during complex operations.

This unique support mechanism is designed to bridge capability gaps. After all, there is a big difference between completing standard GVC training and being thrust into a complex or unique operating environment.

Particularly suited to oil and gas, critical asset industrial inspection, surveying, and public safety sectors, the DAP is a multifaceted support package which offers a springboard for drone programmes to start and scale their internal operations.

Major organisations such as Phillips 66, Associated British Ports, National Grid, and North Wales Police have benefited from the Drone Assistive Programme.

• Supervised Real-world Training: Tailored and assisted on-site operational training on real-world assets, providing hands-on experience of complex missions.

• Industry Application Learning: Task-focused and application-specific classroom learning, covering modules such as data capture, mapping, and crisis management.

• Operational Compliance: Develop and maintain effective management, operating procedures and safety systems within complex environments to meet operational, regulatory and industrial compliance.

• Accelerated Technology Adoption: Test application-specific hardware to prove the concept, build proficiency, and accelerate adoption.

• Human Factors: Learn about human errors and how these can impact safety. Develop robust protocols and procedures on your chosen hardware to mitigate risks and eradicate potential issues such as improper take-off checks or pilot fatigue.

• Lifetime Support: Helps drone programmes maintain and scale through new technology and workflows and provides progressive training pathways.

These examples show how the Drone Assistive Programme benefits drone programmes.

Oil and Gas / Industrial Inspection

• Problem: Highly-complex assets, such as flare stacks or chimneys, need to be inspected, and a drone is the perfect tool. But the in-house pilots, who have just completed their GVC training, initially lack the skills and experience to conduct these types of inspections on real-world infrastructure, safely and effectively.

• Solution: The Drone Assistive Programme delivers on-site, instructor-led training to help pilots hone their skills on complex assets in a controlled and supervised environment.

Public Safety

• Problem: Public safety teams utilise drone cameras for a variety of jobs. But an initial lack of experience can lead to poor data capture, which could have dire consequences. And how does a new drone team respond to a high-pressure, time-critical mission?

• Solution: The Drone Assistive Programme provides hands-on and classroom-based learning to help pilots master specific payloads and data capture techniques. It also covers best operational practises to help teams shape an effective mission strategy.

Surveying

• Problem: You've completed your drone training and now you want to collect real-world survey data. You're sent to site, but how do you obtain the optimal results? And have you even got the correct survey drone?

• Solution: Our in-house surveying team come to your site and assist you in the data collection process, including data processing. Not only do you collect the data you need, but you build proficiency to conduct this work in the future. The team can also showcase the best technology for your use case.