Tadepalli: Drogo Drones, a startup company, has started a training center for pilots operating drones at Tadepalli in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Managing director of Drogo Drones, Yashwant Bontu, said that representatives of the office of the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) visited the company’s office and conducted inspections and issued a no-objection letter.
This is the only private organisation that has obtained the necessary permissions to train pilots to operate drones in the state. Drogo Drones provides week-long training for drone operators as per the syllabus designed by DGCA. Apart from teaching lessons in the classroom, training in operating drones in the field is also given here. Drogo Drones has been designed syllabus by experts with extensive experience in handling drones. The 50-acre campus of this company provides training to those who want to operate drones.
Yashwant said that it is one of the leading institutes in the country for training drone operators. He said that DGCA has given permission to the organization to train 30 students in each batch. DGCA has set a rule that those who want to be trained to operate drones must be 18 years old and have passed at least tenth standard. The training programmes will start from 20th February in the premises of Drogo Drones company situated in Tadepalli.
