Why do your PfCO Course online?

Our ICARUS PfCO Online Drone Course is our most flexible option to get your PfCO from the CAA. Simply book a date for your theory examination and complete all the modules before you attend

  • Learn the CAA PfCO Syllabus at your own pace

  • Do your Theory Examination at one of our training centres

  • Complete your Practical Examination on a mutually convenient date

How does the Online PfCO Course work?


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Don't forget, our ICARUS Pro Online Course comes with an Operations Manual

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Your E-Learning Instructor

UAVHub CEO Matthew Williams

A leading light within the international aviation community with deep-seated roots within the unmanned training and operational delivery sectors. Matt has built a number of successful businesses centred around the ever-evolving unmanned aircraft space. He continues to manage an ever-growing team at the UK's leading unmanned aircraft training and operations company and also consults at the very highest levels in the sector in order to help explore and deliver practical and pragmatic solutions to problems faced by both regulatory bodies worldwide and those looking to exploit options to operate within regulatory frameworks.

The Syllabus

Broken down into easily digestible short videos to learn at your own pace

    1. How to access your resources

    2. Scope

    3. About Aerial Motion Pictures - ICARUS

    4. About your Instructor

    5. The ICARUS Course

    6. The Operations Manual

    7. The Theory Examination

    8. The Operational Evaluation

    9. The Online Courses Modules

    10. Summary

    11. Introduction Quiz

    1. Aide Memoir for Theory Course

    1. Scope

    2. Overview

    3. Names for Drones

    4. Definition of Commercial Operation

    5. Definition of Congested Area

    6. Controlled & Uncontrolled Airspace

    7. Aviation Governing Bodies

    8. Flight Information Regions

    9. CAP 393 Air Navigation Order - Articles 94 & 95

    10. CAP 722 Unmanned Aircraft System Operations in UK Airspace Guidance

    11. Collision Avoidance

    12. The PfCO

    13. Summary

    14. Air Law Quiz

    1. Scope

    2. Lift

    3. Control Surfaces

    4. Multi-rotor control

    5. Command and Control

    6. Flight Controller Modes

    7. Density Altitude

    8. Operational Limitations

    9. Vortex Ring

    10. Summary

    11. Principles of Flight Quiz

    1. Scope

    2. Overview

    3. Cloud Types - Cumulonimbus (CB)

    4. Cloud Types - Fog

    5. Wind

    6. Turbulence & Urban Effects

    7. Precipitation

    8. Temperature

    9. Weather Fronts

    10. METAR & TAF

    11. METAR Examples

    12. Long Term Forecast TAF Examples

    13. Space Weather

    14. Summary

    15. Meteorology Quiz

    1. Scope

    2. Overview

    3. Controlled Airspace

    4. Uncontrolled Airspace

    5. Specific Airspace

    6. NOTAMs

    7. Visual Line of Sight

    8. Small Unmanned Systems Operations

    9. Summary

    10. Airspace & Operating Principles Quiz

About this course

  • £699.00
  • 125 lessons
  • 6 hours of video content

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