UAV operators
 

Anyone know of any UAV operators in this country? The whole UAV thing interests me a lot, would like to find out more, not a whole lot of information out there at the moment.

growth industry...
 

UAVs ? UAS are go..!

If you look in Flight Global... every country is into them these days.

RE Licence in Oz see Pt 101.. need an Operator Cerificate. And training.

Couple of recent? Flt Safety Digests had articles on..Mar Apr 2009 and
May -June 2010

Google on CropCam, a Canadian co.

Since the dopey regulator in this country wont let me take aerial images myself... I'll get something to do it for me.!

Have fun...

ps...
 

google on gatewing X100

Australian Unmanned Systems Academy || Teach | Learn | Apply

If Frank Martin is still involved it'll be a pretty good operation.

From memory there use to be an outfit called aerosond (?) just out of Hamilton Vic. That was a few years ago though. I'm not sure if they have a base there or were just testing and refining the product.

Insitu Pacific ( a subsiduary of Boeing)operate UAVs. They have contracts with the Singapore Navy and have been operating them in Iraq and Afganistan for the Australian Army for abour 6 years. They are based in Brisbane and are trialling their use for commercial operations

QUT have a very active UAV research program going, and the Queensland Government sponsor a UAV outback challenge which used to be annually, but I think it is now every 2 years with s schools competition each year

Canberra model aeroplane club.

Oh how I wish I was about a 100 yrs younger as this is an area that interests me greatly.I've been playing with toy planes/helis with Vid camera's on board & it's amazing the results/potential. Just for fun:-)


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AUSA
 

Tried to post a form to that Academy but it said there was a problem with the site.
Any idea how much a course costs. Looks like it could be exy.

Aerosonde are based in Blackburn, Victoria. They did some testing at Hamilton as well as 2 other locations. The company was started by Australian's but was sold to Textron. The Aerosone aeroplane (without meaning to demean it, its a clever thing) is like a big model aeroplane. The current state of UAV's is that they are more the size of FA18's. If you're serious about UAV's you'll need to go overseas and work for one of the major defense contractors.