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Discover Drone-enabled Possibilities!<\/strong><\/p>\n Be among the first pilots in your region certified to use drones commercially. As of August 2016, FAA pilot certification is required of anyone operating a drone for business purposes.<\/p>\n Workforce Development\u2019s\u00a018-hour Introduction to Small Unmanned Aerial\u00a0Systems<\/strong> (sUAS) course instructs both hobbyists and professionals on how to fly drones safely and legally, prepare for the FAA certification test, and access new opportunities.<\/p>\n Our hands-on Knowledge-to-Action courseware gives advanced insight into the business and employment opportunities created by drones. Topics covered include flying multi-rotor and fixed-wing drones, indoor flight training, diverse flight systems, maintenance, registration and certification requirements, safety, insurance, industry applications, featured systems (DJI, 3DRobotics, etc.), emerging technologies, and the latest FAA policies.<\/p>\n The course includes a workbook, a quadcopter with camera and computer flight simulator with radio controller. Each student will participate in a Top Gun piloting competition and receive a training certificate upon completion of the course.<\/p>\n Schedule:<\/strong> For additional information or to register: <\/p>\n Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:35:34 +0000 by\u00a0l.wheeler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Discover Drone-enabled Possibilities! Be among the first pilots in your region certified to use drones commercially. As of August…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSaturdays, Aug. 20, 27 and Sept. 10, 2016
\n9 a.m. \u2013 4 p.m.
\nTuition:<\/strong> $1,499<\/p>\n
\nVisit\u00a0Drone Flight Systems Training<\/a> on the WDI Site
\nCall 518-629-4111
\nEmail workforce@hvcc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n