The stabilization that consumer drones lean on — GPS position hold, return-to-home — depends on satellite signals that don’t reach inside a venue. Indoors, there is no autopilot to fall back on: the aircraft goes exactly where the pilot puts it, and nowhere else. That’s why our standard is borrowed from competition aerobatics, not commercial drone certification.
Every aircraft we fly indoors is flown or supervised by a pilot who meets this standard — including the autonomous fleets. Autonomy flies the show; pilots are the safety system.
What we require
- Manual/acro piloting proficiency — no GPS or altitude-hold assist
- Fixed-wing and rotary proficiency
- FPV (first-person-view) proficiency
- Live-event experience — flying in front of an audience, on a schedule, under a run of show
- A documented competition record
The bench at a glance
- 12–35 years flying, roughly two decades on average
- Documented competition records across fixed-wing, rotary, aerobatics, and FPV disciplines
- National titles and world-championship-level records represented
- Thousands of logged flight hours per pilot
The bench
Our pilots are contracted per engagement from a vetted Las Vegas bench — championship-level depth on call, rather than a standing crew we carry between shows. Our bench includes nationally and internationally titled competition pilots based in Las Vegas, every one of them flying to the standard above. We introduce pilots by name as part of scoping your engagement.