Skyports Drone Services is on the forefront of worldwide drone regulations, operations, standards and technology within the drone space. Carbonix is a number one provider of BVLOS aircraft and sensors for quite a lot of industries. Together, their combined expertise will lower the barriers to drone adoption in mining and energy and help scale operations.
Skyports and Carbonix Mix Forces to Lower Barriers to Drone Adoption
by DRONELIFE Staff Author Ian J. McNabb
Sydney-based Skyports Drone Services has partnered with fellow Australian brand Carbonix to make use of their eVTOL UAV in recent BVLOS applications across the country. The primary phase of this recent relationship will see Skyports embedding pilots into Carbonix’s operations, flying for Carbonix’s clients within the energy and mining industry and allowing for an expansion of Carbonix’ suite of drone services. While Skyports is energetic in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, that is their first business partnership of their native Australia.
“We’re really excited to be partnering with an experienced and trusted global operator,” said Carbonix CEO, Philip van der Burg. “Skyports Drone Services fills a niche with their scalable end-to-end operational experience in flying fixed-wing VTOL UAVs. We stay up for having their pilots enhance our BVLOS capabilities and forging a long-lasting partnership that sees each firms exchange knowledge and expertise.”
Skyports Drone Services Director, Alex Brown said, “We don’t just fly, we also lead on regulation, compliance, safety management, airspace, and stakeholder management. Our partnership with Carbonix will apply this information to spice up operational capabilities and enable the corporate to scale its infrastructure inspection services. Proving the protection case for drone operations is crucial to the long-term growth and success of the industry. We stay up for sharing our operational knowledge to support Carbonix and promote the adoption of drone operations.”
Matt Shurdy is the primary pilot to start work for Carbonix after stints within the UK and Europe, specializing within the form of infrastructure inspection work Carbonix is attempting to bring to Australia. Within the press release, he said, “In my first few months here in Australia I’ve been focused on the event of best-in-class safety procedures, customer demonstrations and training with the Volanti aircraft to help in the event of UAS use cases. Australia is getting ready to unlocking huge potential withdrone operations and I’m grateful to have the option to support this journey with the Carbonix team.”
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