About
Founded in 2012, Advanced Aerial Solutions has become one of Australia's leading drone operations organisations.
The team behind the continued commitment to emerging technologies
The experience of our highly skilled pilots mean we can determine the right solution for our clients’ needs and ensure the best possible outcome for their investment. Advanced Aerial Solutions offers a true end-to-end visual data collection, inspection, and management solution for the energy sector.
Our continued commitment to emerging technologies and developing innovative data capture methods allows us to push the boundaries of what is possible in the industry.
Our commitment
As part of our ongoing mission, Advanced Aerial Solutions is helping children and young adults realise the potential of a career in the commercial drone, technology and engineering industry. We work with a number of schools across Australia to teach students about our industry & what we can do, helping to inspire the young UAV pilots, engineers and developers of the future.
Our mission
Our mission is to provide solutions that work for our clients and allow them to see their business from a new perspective.
Meet the team
Ben Trollope
Ben has an extensive background in both Manned and Unmanned aviation, specialising in Search and Rescue. Ben gained his SAR knowledge through a decade of rescue helicopter operations before moving into the unmanned aviation space. Taking this knowledge, Ben built Australia’s most reputable Search and Rescue UAV operation and has helped integrate systems into a variety of services.
Ben is an SME in advanced UAV operations and training, is the President of the World UAV Federation Australian Chapter and has a passion to see this disruptive technology make an impact in Australian and Global Operations
Wayne Condon
Wayne has a widespread history in Training, Aviation and the Military which led to him starting Specialised Careers Solutions (Aviation). He has been at the forefront of several specialised Aviation projects within the Vocational Education and Training sector and has been a leader in the development of many the Nationally Accredited Aviation Training packages.
He continues to sit on several advisory panels including the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Executive Training Advisory Group for the Queensland Government, Department of Education and Training along with the Federal Education and Training Department’s Remote Pilot Aircraft Systems advisory panel and works as an SME for several Universities across Australia.
Wayne is our most experienced drone pilot within the organisation with over 30 years of aviation experience and recorded flight hours and is passionate about seeing the next generation of pilots coming through our schools and universities.
Lesley Condon
Lesley has worked in the Aviation and Registered training industry for over 12 years and has been a key contributor to the introduction of the Remote Pilot qualification to the Specialised Careers Solution scope.
Her background in training design has allowed us to bring reality into the Remote Pilot qualification and design the training around real life scenarios and case studies. More recently her experience has also seen her work on virtual reality projects with Swinburne University and Aviation Aerospace Australia as part of their development of Aviation Fundamentals program.
Lesley was one of the first female drone pilots in Australia to gain their Sub 25kg rating and is fanatical about where this versatile qualification is heading into the future.
Andrew Rankin
Andrew has an extensive background in business development and strategy in both the domestic and international Aviation marketplace and a history of working for some of the largest Aviation and Defence businesses globally.
He joined the team in 2016 with a vision to be part of one of Australias leading Drone training organisations believing that drones are going to play a large part in various industries in a very short space of time.
Since starting with the organisation he has seen over 500 students enrol and graduate from the program and is looking to open up thesame opportunity to several other schools and students in Australia.
Andrew also flys operationally for a number of organisations and has CASA license for sub 25kg drones along with an endorsement for night flying.
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