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Kathleen Martin
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Several years ago, Probyn Thompson saw the writing in the skies. A retired Air Force officer and pilot, Thompson closed out his career training airmen to fly drones in unmanned missions over Afghanistan.
"In 2016 I saw that this commercial drone industry was taking over. So I started doing instruction for that on my own," said Thompson. "This is one of those areas somebody is going to have to learn how to fix them, how to program them, how to take the data and analyze it. There's a lot of jobs there."
Since then, Thompson has been teaching a mixture of in-person and remote commercial drone classes at colleges, trade schools and law enforcement agencies.
Later this month, his program lands at Cleveland Community College.
The college's continuing education department has partnered with Thompson to offer a six-week commercial drone pilot program.
Conducted online over that six weeks, the course covers topics from unmanned aircraft regulation, operation in weather and commercial laws regarding drones.
During the online portion of the course, students meet once per week with Thompson via a web call, where he assigns weekly homework assignments and uploads training videos and reading materials for the class.
Continue reading: https://www.shelbystar.com/story/news/2021/09/03/new-drone-program-comes-ccc/5684746001/
"In 2016 I saw that this commercial drone industry was taking over. So I started doing instruction for that on my own," said Thompson. "This is one of those areas somebody is going to have to learn how to fix them, how to program them, how to take the data and analyze it. There's a lot of jobs there."
Since then, Thompson has been teaching a mixture of in-person and remote commercial drone classes at colleges, trade schools and law enforcement agencies.
Later this month, his program lands at Cleveland Community College.
The college's continuing education department has partnered with Thompson to offer a six-week commercial drone pilot program.
Conducted online over that six weeks, the course covers topics from unmanned aircraft regulation, operation in weather and commercial laws regarding drones.
During the online portion of the course, students meet once per week with Thompson via a web call, where he assigns weekly homework assignments and uploads training videos and reading materials for the class.
Continue reading: https://www.shelbystar.com/story/news/2021/09/03/new-drone-program-comes-ccc/5684746001/
