Professional training & accreditation
Working from our Sussex base, all Thames Valley Drones, our pilots are fully trained under the recent GVC-PDRA-01 rather than the general sub 250g classification (for Small Unmanned Aircraft (BNUC-S™) for Visual Line of Sight Operations (VLOS)); commissioned by the UK CAA, which covers fixed, rotary and multi-rotor systems.
In addition all our pilots have attained the Sub 20 kg, CAA Operational Authorisation which is renewed annually. This allows us to fly enterprise-class drones for the survey end of our client base & operate to the highest standards.
This authorisation also includes a rating for night flights (in accordance with our CAA approved Operations Manual) enabling us to offer clients photography & filming at night ie where night is classified as 30 mins after and 30 mins before sunset / sunrise.
We also carry third party liability insurance < £10m – depending on the size of the project we are working on.
For our construction clients we also have pilots with a CSCS Health & Safety & Environment for Operatives accreditation which means that construction clients fine it easier to put our pilots through the construction firm’s own Health & Safety programme, therefore allowing our pilots to work on live construction / CSCS controlled sites.
