Grove House · UAV Academy · coming soon
A hands-on drone course taught by Miles — a real flight instructor — built for landowners and anyone who wants their commercial Part 107 license. Pass the exam, learn to actually fly, and turn a flight over a parcel into a scout's-eye read on the dirt.
Hybrid: self-paced lessons + live flight sessions on the land along Beaver Creek. Founding members get first access and a founding rate when it opens.
From the FAA cert to real sticks-and-throttle flying to reading a parcel from above. Curriculum set by Miles; final outline lands before launch.
The FAA Remote Pilot test, demystified — airspace, sectional charts, weather, the rules that keep you legal. Pass the exam, get the commercial cert. (It's self-serve; we get you ready.)
Live flight sessions with Miles on the land along Beaver Creek. Takeoff, landing, hovering in wind, framing a shot, flying a grid — the muscle memory you can't get from a video.
The Grove House angle: fly a parcel and actually see it — boundaries, access, drainage, water flow, terrain, problem spots. Turn a flight into a scout's findings.
Flight planning, overlap, LAANC airspace authorization, and how raw footage becomes a usable map or orthomosaic for a landowner.
Plan and fly a real parcel start to finish, and walk away with footage you can use — or sell.
Miles is a working flight instructor and a real manned-aircraft pilot — and Brady's neighbor out in the Verde Valley (Brady's his first drone student). He teaches the way the work actually goes: legal first, safe always, useful in the field. He coaches the aviation-knowledge side — airspace, sectional charts, weather, navigating the FAA testing — and runs the in-person flight sessions. Full bio at launch.