Charging Towards Efficiency: How SunShine Innovation Transforms Drone School Certifications
A report by FactMR points out that the global drone service market is expected to reach US$ 6,629.4 million by 2023. With Google, Amazon, and Walmart expanding drone deliveries, the demand and scope for drone pilots are anticipated to grow manifold. Expectedly, drone schools are at the forefront of producing professionals.
Keeping up the training process and ensuring drones are constantly in the air are often common challenges. Drone batteries drain up quickly, which significantly reduces flight time and increases waiting time to get drones up in the air. Similar problems were faced by a Drone Pilot School, which specializes in drone pilot training and certification in Mesa, Arizona.
❝ Keeping up the training process and ensuring drones are constantly in the air are often common challenges. Drone batteries drain up quickly, which significantly reduces flight time and increases waiting time to get drones up in the air. Similar problems were faced by a Drone Pilot School, which specializes in drone pilot training and certification in Mesa, Arizona. ❞
Limited flying time leading to lower certifications
The beautiful skies of Mesa offer the perfect environment for prospective drone pilots to learn and hone their skills, and the Drone Pilot School blends innovation with expertise to offer comprehensive pilot training and certifications. The biggest concern for the school that has invested extensively in quality equipment was to reduce the idle battery charging time for the drones and keep them drones up in the air.
Although the weather in Arizona offers amazing opportunities, drone batteries typically give up quickly, which stops trainers and trainees from having the desired airtime.
To reach the typical goal of 100 flying hours necessary for getting the certification, often takes as long as 60 days for the student pilot due to limited airtime they receive.
Alistair, who trains trainee pilots at the Drone Pilot School, agrees that the drone idle time due to recharging of the drone batteries is a big challenge during the training process.
From the initial years of getting trained, he faced similar issues as a student, where he felt that he could have gotten his certificate faster and would be on the job and earning several weeks earlier. Even though he, too, had great trainers, he couldn’t use their expertise and skills to his benefit because his flying time was always restricted. Similarly, a longer certification duration for most students only means delaying the income they would earn for a living.
Alistair agrees that if he could have used the available drone school resources to the maximum extent, reduced the idle time for battery charging, he would have probably spent more time flying the drones rather than waiting for his turn. His students face similar situations, sitting beside charging tables and missing out on learning opportunities.
Keeping drone batteries charged, thereby, is a collective problem for the students, trainers, and drone schools alike. There’s no denying that reducing drone charging time can directly impact the number of students certified by the Drone pilot school. Each minute that a drone remains idle is a dent in the school’s profits, and student’s income as it delays the certification time.
❝ Each minute that a drone remains idle is a dent in the school’s profits, and student’s income as it delays the certification time. ❞
More training time adding to certification delays
Like many other drone schools, the Drone Pilot School had three major challenges:
➤ Keeping up the flight time
➤ Potential pilots waiting next to charging tables for their chance, losing out flying time as well as unable to observe the flight trajectory of the drones as they are indoor, charging replacement batteries
➤ Suboptimal use of drones, which are a significant investment for the school
On average, the pilots require 100 hours of flight time to get the certification from the drone school. On any given day, each pilot gets three turns, each equaling 5 minutes, taking the average flying time to 20-25 minutes. As a result, completing the certification eventually takes around 60 days as the pilots also spend a lot of time charging drone batteries.
The drone pilot school is unable to use its resources optimally and faces challenges such as:
➤ Lower revenue realization: The number of students who can complete certification in a given period is limited due to the battery charging idle time and bottlenecks. This has direct impact on the revenue realization as the pilot school charges for each student certification.
➤ ldle pilot time: The drone pilots spend significant time charging backup batteries and during that time, they can’t observe the flight path, thus losing significant training time. This takes the pilots to get proficient and essentially take them 2x longer to obtain the certification.
➤ ldle drone equipment time: ln order to earn the school revenue, the drones needs to be in air than idle for charging. The 20-minute average charging time after every 5-10 minute flight makes the expensive equipment underutilized.
That’s precisely where the solar charging device from SunShine lnnovation is a game changer. The SunShine charger can bring down certification time roughly from 60 days to 30 days which could potentially result in a 100% increase in revenue for the Drone Pilot School.
❝ That’s precisely where the soIar charging device from SunShine Innovation is a game changer. The SunShine charger can bring down certification time roughly from 60 days to 30 days which could potentially result in a 100% increase in revenue for the Drone Pilot School. ❞
Alistair checked the flying time for each drone during the experiment and agreed that on-the-go charging support using SunShine lnnovation’s charger could be a game changer for faster, practical training without compromising on the time invested in each student.
Sunshine’s innovative soIar-powered charger to the rescue
SunShine lnnovation brings a powerful, 6-port, multi-device solar charger that can accelerate the certification process for drone schools by rapid indoor solar charging for multiple drone batteries.
ln the case of the Drone Pilot School, pilots and trainers noticed significant changes in both flying and waiting time. Pilots and trainers like Alistair would no longer need to wait for their turn to use the drones, as the multi-device charger ensured rapid re-enforcement of the power supply for drone batteries.
The Drone Pilot School could bring down the charging time for each drone battery from 20 minutes to just 2 minutes. This, in turn, could potentially bring down the certification time to just 30 days from 60 days.
❝ The Drone Pilot School could bring down the charging time for each drone battery from 20 minutes to just 2 minutes. This, in turn, could potentially bring down the certification time to just 30 days from 60 days. ❞
Empowering drone schools to rapid certifications & greater revenue
SunShine lnnovation’s innovative charger ensures that drone schools operate at the maximum efficiency. With a charger that can charge multiple batteries, cellphones, and an array of devices with indoor and outdoor lighting, drone schools can now:
➤ Avoid disruptions during training by keeping all drones in the air with very little idle time
➤ Extract more flight time per pilot as well as more outdoor time surveying and learning from the drone flight trajectory than charging batteries indoor
➤ Potentially double their certification revenue with faster certifications and ability to accommodate higher student intake
➤ Achieve greater student satisfaction as the faster pilot certification can lead the pilots to earn up to $4,000 more by being job eligible 30-days sooner
Call SunShine lnnovation to transform your drone school’s certification process
If your drone school is struggling with student idle time, delayed certifications, and underutilized equipment because of drone batteries being constantly on charge, call SunShine lnnovation to discover an innovative indoor solar charger that can rapidly charge multiple batteries at the same time.
Sunshine lnnovation’s 6-port, indoor solar charger can reduce the battery charging idle time for each pilot from 20 minutes to 2 minutes thus resulting into 2x faster certifications and 2x greater revenue for the Drone Pilot Schools.
❝ Sunshine lnnovation’s 6-port, indoor solar charger can reduce the battery charging idle time for each pilot from 20 minutes to 2 minutes thus resulting into 2x faster certifications and 2x greater revenue for the Drone Pilot Schools. ❞
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