Training
Learn it from a crew that flies it every week.
On-site programs for new operators. The certification, the aircraft, the mix, the trailer, and the parts of the job nobody writes down. Built on four seasons and more than 60,000 acres of our own application work, flown by our own crews.
What is covered
Everything between buying an aircraft and getting paid for a field.
Flying the drone is the part that takes an afternoon. The rest of this is what separates an operator who clears the acreage from one who runs out of daylight halfway through it.
Certification
What Part 107 and Part 137 actually require of you, what the paperwork looks like, and the order to do it in.
Aircraft handling
Pre-flight, calibration, take-off and landing on real ground, and what to do when something goes wrong at forty feet.
Mixing and rates
Tank mixing, rate calculation, droplet size, and the chemistry that decides how a product wants to be flown.
Mission planning
Boundaries, obstacles, flight lines, and building a job that finishes before the batteries do.
Trailer and ground crew
Generators, battery rotation, water, and the logistics that decide whether a day is a few hundred acres or a few thousand.
Maintenance
Daily checks, service intervals, the parts that wear out first, and the ones worth carrying on the trailer.
Safety and incidents
Spotting, exclusion zones, drift awareness, and what you are actually required to report.
Records
Flight logs and application records, kept in a shape that survives somebody asking to see them.
Running the business
Quoting, scheduling, invoicing, and the operations software underneath all three.
How it runs
Not a certificate. A crew that can work on Monday.
On your ground
Trained on the fields you will actually be flying.
A classroom teaches the checklist. Your own ground teaches the terraces, the powerline, the neighbor's susceptible crop, and where the trailer will and will not fit.
- Classroom session, then the rest of the day in the field
- Structured rotations, so hands-on time is real at any group size
- Your terrain, your obstacles, your water source
Your equipment
Built around the airframe you own.
Tell us what you fly and we write the program around it. If you have not bought yet, that is a conversation worth having before the purchase instead of after. The difference between airframes shows up in acres per day, not in the brochure.
- Program written around your aircraft and your crew size
- Honest advice on specification if you have not bought yet
- The same parts and rigs we use ourselves, if you want them
The engagement
Four steps, start to first paying job.
-
Scope
A call to work out where your crew is starting from, what you fly, and what the season ahead looks like.
-
Schedule
We agree dates and a field. Most programs run on your ground so the conditions are the ones you will be working in.
-
Train
Classroom in the morning, in the field for the rest of the day, with rotations sized to the group so everyone gets hands on the controller.
-
Follow up
You leave with the checklists and record templates, and someone to call the first time the season throws something new at you.
Questions
Before you book
Who is this for?
New operators standing up an application business, and existing crews adding aircraft to a fleet that already sprays. Both come up all the time, and the two programs look pretty different. That is why the first step is a conversation instead of a booking form for a fixed course.
Do we train on your aircraft or ours?
Yours, if you have them. There is not much value in learning a controller you will not be using. Tell us what you fly on the form below and we will confirm what we bring with us.
How far do you travel?
Training travels. It is not tied to our application service area. That radius is about trailers and turnaround, not about teaching. Send your location with the form and we will tell you right away.
How big can the group be?
Either end of the range. We run one-on-one with a single operator, and we run classroom and seminar sessions for a room full of them. We do both regularly and neither one is a stretch.
What changes is the format, not whether we can take the numbers. A small crew spends most of the day on the controller. A larger group gets more classroom time and structured rotations through the aircraft, so nobody spends the afternoon watching. Tell us the headcount and we will tell you which shape fits.
What does it cost?
It depends on crew size, how many days it takes, and travel. Send the form and you will get a written quote rather than a range that turns out not to apply to you.
Is the software part of it?
Yes. Every program covers running the business as well as flying the aircraft. That includes setting up vOps: work orders, flight logs, compliance records, and invoicing. You leave with somewhere for the records to go.
Book it
Tell us about the crew.
We write the program around your group instead of picking one off a shelf, anywhere from one-on-one up to a classroom of operators. The more you can tell us here, the more accurate the quote comes back.
- We reply within one business day.
- A short call to scope the program and confirm travel.
- A written quote with dates before anything is booked.
Setting up the rest of the operation?
We build the trailers and sleds, stock the aftermarket parts, and make the software the whole operation runs on.