MILITARY TRAINING

Flyby technology has extensive experience of military pilot training across all three armed services. Our instructors have all held senior posts withing military training organisations such as the Central Flying School and are all either A2 Qualified Flying Instructors or Qualified Weapons Instructors. All have been assessed as at least above average as pilots and as instructors. Flyby can tailor training to the customer need and starts by conducting an end-to-end training needs analysis. This is then distilled into a set of training system requirements based on the desired exit standards. Our in-house artists create wonderful briefs and graphical representations to enable students to visualise the point being made by the instructor.

Our courses are written to take a student with no previous flying experience and develop them through a training pipeline into a highly skilled and effective UAV pilot.The initial course starts with a period of groundschool which equips the student with a background knowledge of meteorology, air law, technical understanding, operational discipline, processes and procedures before the flying phase begins. The basic course is equivalent to the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) General Visual Line Of Sight Certificate (GVC). The pilot is then given one to one instruction of how to control a light UAV in challenging conditions, to perform planned manoeuvres and tasks as well as handling single but complex emergencies. The course culminates with a Flight Skills Test (FST) where the student demonstrates their skills and ability to apply what they have learned to a real-life situation.

Our Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Course is by necessity more complex and involved. The course starts with a 2-week period of groundschool and a simulator acquaint phase. All of the subjects covered in the GVC are re-visited but in much greater detail on the relevant topics. The student learns the basic operation of the platform in the simulator and learns the skills required to work as a team operating one aircraft with another pilot and external agencies. The pilot is then shown how to fly the aircraft in the visual arena with a hand controller and taken to the difficult corners of the operational envelope under the supervision of an experienced instructor. Once the student has demonstrated the necessary skills and confidence they are taught to operate the aircraft through the Ground Control Station (GCS) to develop faith in the systems needed to fly a high-mass UAV over the visual horizon. Once the student has mastered the flying and navigating of the aircraft they are moved on to the operational phases. These are customer specific and in some cases role specific. In all cases these extra courses are provided to meet the operation need within which the student will need to be proficient and highly effective.