Hybrid aircraft that take off vertically and cruise on a wing — and the transition between the two.
A VTOL takes off like a multirotor and cruises like an aeroplane, which gives you the endurance and range that rotary platforms cannot reach. It also gives you a transition — and the transition is where these aircraft are lost.
This endorsement covers hybrid and powered-lift platforms properly: what the aircraft is doing through the transition, how to plan a corridor or area survey that actually uses the endurance, and what your options are when a transition fails.
For long linear assets and large survey areas — powerlines, roads, river corridors, plantations — this is the category that makes the job economic.
Tell us what you want to be able to do and we'll tell you which course gets you there — or that you don't need one.
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