We have many years of flying experience and constantly growing equipment for many situations.
As a certified training and examination company, we cover all the necessary areas for training remote pilots. From participants planning their first flight to experienced pilots who want to obtain their certification as quickly as possible, you’ve come to the right place.
We, Anna and Nico, conduct all courses in Southern Germany and Northern Switzerland ourselves. For all other regions in Europe, we have close partnerships with over 50 experienced instructors and examiners to ensure a high quality experience for your drone operation.
In addition, we are building Europe’s largest network for professional drone operators with over 3500 registered, trained and certified remote pilots.
Our extensive experience ensures that nothing goes wrong with your unique events. We are already very familiar with most authorities in the DACH region and offer a large network of pilots so that we can facilitate any date and location for aerial photography. Do you need a camera in the air? We’ll take it up for you.
Our vision
Any drone pilot can simply get into their car and spontaneously accept a flight order from their smartphone in their vicinity without having to worry about permits. The DroneMaps24.org platform has already taken care of this for the pilot.
I really enjoyed the drone workshop with theory and practice. With Nico I had a very competent person at my side and in the practice I felt safe and in good hands, because it is not quite so easy. Therefore, the course is always recommended.
David L.
Our certificate
Since January 2021, we have been offering training courses to obtain the EU certificate of competence and the EU remote pilot certificate as well as the STS certificate. As the regional office of DE.PStF.010 UAVDACH-Services UG notified by the LBA, we also take the official test for the EU remote pilot’s certificate A2 according to the latest regulation (EU) 2019/947.
From 2017 to 2020 nicopter GmbH was approved by the Federal Aviation Office (LBA) as an operating and testing facility of the recognized body DE.AST.001 UAVDACH-Services UG for the examination of remote pilot´s licenses according to § 21d of the Aviation Ordinance. During this time, we trained over 400 pilots for the successfully completed test.
Trainers, instructors & pilots
Nico Ninov
- Founder and Managing Director of nicopter GmbH since 2016 in Flurlingen, Switzerland
- Dipl.-Ing. Communication and Information Technology (2009)
- Coach for drone pilots since 2010
- Over 10 years as Business Development Manager at ABB Schweiz AG
- Deputy Head of the “Training, Licensing and Personnel” specialist group at UAV DACH since 2019
Anna-Katharina Aardeck
- Deputy Managing Director of nicopter GmbH since 2016
- BSc Industrial Engineering
- MSc Business Development and Internationalization
- Drone pilot and trainer since 2016
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