Emergency Services Drone Training

heliguy™ provides specialist drone training to the emergency services. Our courses equip public safety personnel with the tools they need to safely plan, manage, and conduct drone operations that save lives and protect communities.

We develop and deliver training for all types of public safety organisations. heliguy™ supports or supplies more than 100 UK blue light agencies and has trained the likes of London Fire Brigade, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, South Yorkshire Police, and West Midlands Ambulance Service HART.

The Emergency Services Drone Operators Training (ES-DOT) course is tailored to public safety agencies adopting drones or adding pilots to their existing programme.

This hybrid GVC course adopts a vocational syllabus designed by heliguy™ and is delivered in a closed course, in-person format. This means it is just your organisation and our instructors for a personalised and highly-focused learning experience.

ES-DOT features optional scenario-based tuition to ensure emergency service personnel are trained to the highest accountable standard.

We can supply the drones: Meaning you can start training before procurement and your team become experts on your preferred hardware.

The course can be delivered at a location of your choice, bringing your nominated pilots together for standardised learning. This removes the logistical burden and staffing complexities of coordinating self-guided or cross-site training.

The in-person training also helps your team develop robust risk management protocols and standardised procedures.

Catering for established emergency services drone programmes, the heliguy™ Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course enhances pilot expertise and maximises a team’s operational effectiveness.

The course helps to maintain an optimal level of safety and ensures missions are conducted in strict accordance with robust operating procedures.

This CPD course is tailored to the emergency services and covers topics such as hasty operational planning and deployment, and advanced flight manoeuvres and data capture.

The heliguy™ streamlined Operations Manual service saves you hours of preparation time and ensures you build a compliant and up-to-date document ready for CAA submission.

We check your Operations Manual before it is sent off for approval.

The heliguy™ Operations Manual framework meets the highest drone industry standards, endorsed by IQ Verify against the requirements of BS ISO 21384-3: 2019.

Drone surveying is an emerging application for public safety: Beneficial for accident and crime-scene reconstruction, terrain mapping, and modelling critical infrastructure for enhanced incident response.

Develop your public safety team's surveying capability with heliguy™’s in-house geospatial department which has built dedicated survey training on best practices for LiDAR and photogrammetry drone surveying, including flight parameters, data capture procedures, and processing.

heliguy™ delivers Ofqual-regulated drone training. These accredited qualifications, assessed and approved by awarding body TQUK, can benefit your career in the drone industry.

The Level 4 Award in Unmanned Aircraft Systems - equivalent to a Higher National Certificate - is an accredited version of the General Visual Line of Sight Certificate (GVC). It goes beyond the standard syllabus and demonstrates an increased level of operational competence.

The Level 5 Award for UAS Operations Managers - equivalent to a Higher National Diploma - is designed for Operations Managers and project leads, and is highly relevant to public safety drone programmes.