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I recently attended AEROBOTIKA'S 3-Day UAV Ground School held in Toronto (Dec 15-17/2017) taught by Thomas Hoppe as a component of ensuring our company meets Transport Canada's compliancy legislation for Jan.1/2018; primarily to broaden my existing knowledge and framework, improve my professional practice, and consolidate my working knowledge in the Professional/Commercial UAV Aerial Solutions industry. My Instructor Thomas was instantly welcoming, professional, patient, extraordinarily knowledgeable, experienced, possessed of a very entertaining and amusing wit, and his pedagogical practice was absolutely natural and seamless. He held everyone's attention the entire time without effort at all.
Owner/CEO Paul Bennett's Courseware alone is "worth the price of admission", which is humble measured against the quality of what you leave with in your hands. The course content simply put is nothing short of remarkable. The materials are modern, updated constantly (to the day), painstakingly assembled and pleasing to the eye (makes them fun to read again!!!), and they have a longevity given their breadth and depth that you won't find anywhere else...Thomas himself brought years of additional experience in Geomatics, GIS, Surveying, Piloting and Photogrammetry to add icing to this cake. The lessons were approached in a linear, logistical, and easily manageable frame of multimedia, interactive and supportive testing, group work, leadership and engaging discussion. By juxtaposition, speaking afterward with 4 colleagues who have attended formal UAV Training elsewhere, from an unbiased perspective of their experiences they shared openly with me of "other" practitioner's institutes, I heard a variety of different commentary including "we didn't learn that, oh..that's interesting to know...I didn't know that...you have to do that...?...that's really informative..."....common amongst all 4 was "I WISH WE ATTENDED AEROBOTIKA".
If you want to stand out from the crowd, don't let it be through gaps in your knowledge. Get yourself into an AEROBOTIKA Ground School and don't be concerned with your entry point either, greater than 70% of the class I attended had ZERO UAV experience but we all left with equal experiences and exposure to the same learning. I had MANY holes in my prior learning and experiences that were plugged this past weekend. I can speak honestly for all, EVERYONE left just as happy and enthusiastic as I did and better for having attended regardless of their motivation and/or rationale for being there.
If you are committed to safety, betterment of yourself, professional growth, modernized training, working with THE BEST in the industry, learning from and with them, then don't even hesitate, AEROBOTIKA is what I would recommend. Their name, reputation and their staff speak for themselves. You will leave with a skill set few have, and following the full pathway through the Ground School, Company Operations Manual and SFOC Courseware was the most intelligent aerial decision I've made.
They are a true 5 Star Academy and 10/10 stellar people.
Paul Bennett took 45 minutes of his own time with me on the phone 6 months ago when I contacted him without any expectation or solicitation; there was no hesitation at all to help out of genuine kindness and professionalism.
That speaks as highly to his qualities as any need to know. I've had interaction by phone or email with the bulk of their Staff, they are all unique and amazing. It was no large surprise that my instructor Thomas was just as spectacular.
Transport Canada will see that AEROBOTIKA logo on your SFOC application and it WILL impact positively.
This is a 10/10 Facilitator, Training Institute and Company.
Thanks for everything AEROBOTIKA. The pleasure was mine, keep up the amazing work.
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