Drone Courses

The new UK drone regulations came into force on 31 December 2020.

We currently offer four drone courses:

Part 1 - A2 Certificate of Competency (A2 CofC)

The A2 Certificate of Competency (A2 CofC) is a new drone qualification that allows you to fly small drones “close to people”.  Under the new regulations, you can operate a drone commercially for the first time without needing to spend thousands of pounds on training and CAA Permissions.

A2 Certificate of Competency (A2 CofC) is now the first building block of a drone pilot training, for individuals wanting to start a drone business and organisations wanting to use drones commercially in their operations.

Our NEW CAA A2 Certificate of Competency (A2 CofC) Course allows you to fast track becoming a Qualified Drone Pilot, from your own home.  This will allow you to fly safe and legal as a qualified commercial Drone Pilot.

Part 2 - GVC Course

The online GVC course is a longer  more in depth course consisting of online theoretical training and testing. Once complete the student needs to attend a CDTs testing location for the GVC flight test.

There is a selection of three options for the GVC Course

1. Online GVC Course
2. Online GVC Course with 3 Hour Classroom Refresher
3. Traditional GVC Ground School Course

Online GVC Course

The theoretical part of the online GVC course can completed in the comfort of your own home on the device of your choosing.

As you work through the course you can test your knowledge with our free mock tests.

Once the course is complete you can choose to access the comprehensive 80 question mock test, completing this test will give you the confidence to undertake the online theory test with ease.

You are able to do the GVC 44-question multiple choice theory test on-line (invigilated by a CDT examiner using your webcam).

After the successful completion of the theoretical testing phase, a date and time for your GVC flight test will be organised.

Online GVC Course with 2 Hour One to One Zoom Tuition

The refresher course builds on the benefits of completing the online GVC course above but gives the student an additional 2 hours of Zoom-based refresher training ensuring the student is ready for the 44-question multiple choice GVC theory test.

Students complete the theoretical test at the end of the refresher session and then move onto the flight test later that day.

Traditional GVC Ground School Course

Our traditional course is a 3-day classroom-based instructor led ground school course.

This course includes:

2-day ground school culminating with 44 question multiple choice theory test
Operations Manual writing workshop
GVC Flight training and testing
Practical flight planning overview
Help with online CAA application for Operational Authorisation

Learn to Fly a DJI Drone

In this course you will learn how to fly, operate and control a drone safely and with confidence in three hours.

It does not mater if you have not flown a drone before.

We offer the best basic online drone training for beginners, using Drone School Uk's experience of instructing over 1,000 students to fly on face to face half-day courses.

After you have completed the online drone flying course you will have seen and know about the latest DJI consumer drones. Featured in the online course are:

DJI Spark
DJI Mavin Air
DJI Mavic Pro
DJI Mavic 2 Pro and Zoom
DJI Phantom 4 Pro
DJI Mavic Mini and DJY Fly App

On the course, you will learn to fly indoors on the DJI simulators before you fly for real.

You will learn how to fly the small DJI Tello drone indoors and really hone your flying skills.  We teach you the UK drone flying rules and techniques for safe flying.