VD: Application for a business trip to FPV – training
This questionnaire was created as part of the Victory Drones project.
All information about the project is here: https://victory-drones.com/In connection with the launch of the FPV field of training,
we are collecting information in this Google questionnaire for being called on an official business trip (via the Order) about:-
crews who need training in the FPV direction (at least two or three people from the unit).
Upon completion of training, the VOS is awarded–
data of military instructors, for the transfer of experience in the military use of FPV drones.
VOS instructors are NOT waived, only for cadets upon successful completion of a full course of studyEven if your management does not yet fully understand the prospects of this direction, but you have a strong motivation, you can apply.
About the pilot training course
IMPORTANTLY! Currently, there is a queue of those wishing to join the training course. In case your application is included in the order of the Supreme Court, you will be contacted by signal for further steps.Therefore, we recommend that you additionally contact the FPV schools and clarify the possibility of training in the near future. Link to the table with schools:
- Duration of study – 33 working days (Sunday off).
- It is necessary to know the number of cadets whom to call on a business trip.
- The training center will send an order through the General Staff to request the training of the number of people you specified.
- After receiving the Order, the Company must issue a business trip for the number of people from the request. Important : your flight commander must be aware that you need to send exactly the crew specified in the application. Since the final decision on the name list of military personnel who will be sent for training is made by the commander of the military training. Accordingly, the immediate commander of the crew should communicate about this with the commanders in his vertical, up to the commander of the technical department.
- If you have FPV equipment (laptop, remote control, glasses, drones, soldering iron), you must take it with you. Equipment on site is limited in quantity.
- It is necessary to have with you civilian clothes and things necessary for spending the night in the barracks / field conditions (in the forest) – a sleeping bag, a certificate of business trip and a certificate of sale (can be delivered).
- Mosquito spray.
The training program includes the following modules:
Block 1. Theoretical
- Basic techniques for controlling drones (trainers)
- The structure of the FPV quadcopter
- Remote control and modules for it
- Nettle
- Glasses and Batteries
- Introductory lecture, First flights
- Antennas
- Connection
- REB and PER
- Software for firmware and configuration of drones
- Tactical medicine
- Mine safety
- Introduction to tactics
- Assembly and repair of a quadcopter
- Flight with load introductory lecture
Block 2. Practical
- Flights with loads
- Tactics of using FPV in war
Requirements for candidates:
- MUST: experience with UAVs (quadcopters or wings)
- REQUIRED: Completed Victory Drones’ online course “Applying Technology in War” (on the Prometheus platform) . If you have not taken the Course, just provide your email address in the application form, in case of confirmation of the study trip, you will receive access to study by e-mail.
- It is desirable to have technical skills with a soldering iron: FPV will require a lot of repair or assembly of your drone. The base has engineers who work on restoring equipment broken by cadets and teach how to assemble FPV drones, respectively.
- It is advisable to have a tablet for working with Kropyva, a laptop for setting up the FPV drone, your own car for moving between training locations.
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