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Introduction to Drones

Your first properly taught flights — controls, airmanship and the habits that keep an aircraft out of trouble.

Course Overview

Most people who fly a drone learn by trial, error and YouTube. That works right up until the day it doesn't — a lost link over a crowd, a battery that sags in the cold, a hill that turns out to be closer than it looked.

This course gives you the version a pilot would be taught: what the aircraft is actually doing, why it behaves differently at altitude and in wind, how to read the airspace you are in, and what to do when something stops working mid-flight.

You will finish able to plan a simple job, brief it, fly it and log it — and you will understand where the limits of your permissions are, which matters more than stick skill.

PrerequisitesNone. No prior flying experience is assumed.
FormatShort course — theory plus supervised practical flight. Training aircraft provided; bring your own if you have one.
LocationsKathmandu, Nepal · Brisbane, Australia · or at your site

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What the course covers

  • How a multirotor flies, and what the flight controller is doing for you
  • Airspace basics and where you may and may not operate
  • Weather that matters to small aircraft — wind, gusts, temperature, density altitude
  • Battery chemistry, charging discipline and cold-weather behaviour
  • Pre-flight inspection and a checklist you will actually use
  • Launch, hover, circuit and landing to a defined standard
  • Loss of link, low battery and fly-away procedures
  • Basic logging and record keeping

Who it's for

  • Complete beginners with no flying background
  • Recreational pilots who want to learn properly before going commercial
  • Staff being introduced to drones inside a larger organisation

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