360iSR and Canadian UAVs Partner for UAS Operations Training

360iSR and Canadian UAVs have agreed to jointly offer  Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Operations Training. The joint training offering, announced at DSEI, London, leverages the partnership’s Transport Canada-approved Detect and Avoid technology to provide end-to-end UAS training solutions in alignment with NATO Standard ATP-3.3.8.1 requirements.

The initiative answers a growing demand currently unfulfilled: UAS suppliers provide type (system specific) training on the unmanned aircraft systems they sell, but this is only one small part of a larger, holistic UAS Operations Training picture. Too often a UAS is procured without a pathway to fully leverage the asset’s data acquisition, dissemination, and tactical force implementation advantages. This shortcoming is a result of not having access to comprehensive UAS Operations Training. Comprehensive UAS Operations Training addresses operational airworthiness, airmanship, general UAS information, Detect And Avoid (DAA) systems and procedures, the integration of UAS in non-segregated airspace, and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) procedures.

Together the two companies bring expertise in UAS and ISR operations to create a total training solution that not only ensures a high level of flight safety training, but also that ensures specialisations within the UAS and ISR activity are individually trained, and that crew, team, and military unit are collective trained, thus enabling the integration of the UAS into the wider operational community. The result: more effective UAS operations, better return on investment in unmanned aircraft systems, and fully integrated and synchronised capability that supports decision-centric operations.

“The collaboration between 360iSR and Canadian UAVs represents a step change in UAS training.  No longer is a client limited to a pilot-centric conversion to type course. Our training program addresses aviation authority certification issues such as BVLOS and DAA and it addresses operational issues such as integration of UAS activity into the broader ISR activity ultimately supporting information dominant operations,” said Ewen Sime, 360iSR President.