Passing a knowledge test proves you can fly legally. It does not teach you how to run a search. This course closes that gap — grid planning, thermal interpretation, and feeding usable information back to incident command.
Certified remote pilots at agencies that run, or expect to run, missing-person searches. Rural sheriff's offices, volunteer fire departments, and emergency management personnel who have more ground to cover than people to cover it.
Officers must already hold a Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate. If nobody at your department does yet, start with the 3-Day Part 107 Course and run this one after.
Two days, sixteen hours, split between classroom instruction and hands-on field exercises. The field work is the point — you cannot learn to read a thermal feed from a slide.
Two days, split between a classroom and a field site. The host agency provides both: a room that seats the group with a projector or large display, and suitable open ground nearby for the search exercises.
Students fly their own equipment, and you should arrive ready to fly on Day 2 unless conditions are unsafe. That is deliberate. You will spend the rest of your career searching with the aircraft your department actually owns, not with ours, and the time to learn its quirks is in a training exercise rather than at 0200 on a real callout.
Come with the aircraft charged, current on firmware, registered, and Remote ID compliant. If you're unsure whether your airframe is a good fit for the field exercises, ask us before the class rather than on the morning of Day 2.
Capped at 16 students.
The field portion is the reason this course exists, so weather matters. Nobody flies in unsafe conditions. If the weather scrubs the exercise, we work with the host agency to reschedule that portion rather than quietly skip it.
$499 per student, flat, whatever the headcount. If your agency hosts the session at its own facility you receive two free seats, and those two seats are in addition to every seat you pay for, not instead of them.
Host this course at your facility and two of your officers train free.
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