Workshop | Your Drone Show

Workshop capabilities

What we actually do across a show build

Every display runs through the same working stages, whether it is a thirty-drone vineyard wedding or a three-hundred-aircraft stadium sequence. These are the parts of the job we take on, and the parts where crews usually get stuck.

Fleet choreography in Skybrush

Blockout in Blender, then timing offsets, waypoint spacing and hold frames in Skybrush. We build the sequence so it survives a narrow launch corridor and a guest marquee sitting under the flight path.

CAA Part 101 and geofencing

Airspace applications, venue safety officer packs and the extra clauses a stadium or harbour front will ask for. We map the display volume before anyone touches a launch case.

RF channel planning

Pre-show spectrum scans, channel selection and ground-station placement relative to the crowd. A clean 06:00 rehearsal tells you very little about a 20:00 show with thousands of phones on site.

Battery rotation schedules

Charge cycles, swap windows and spares counts planned around the actual show length, not the rehearsal. Nobody wants to ground half a fleet between two acts.

Scoping corporate and festival slots

Different briefs, different constraints. A brand activation has a fixed reveal moment; a festival slot has to fit around a running order and a crowd that is already moving.

Post-show teardown notes

Firmware quirks, prop wash on coastal nights and the settings we no longer trust. Written up after the gig, while the details are still annoying enough to remember.

New to this? Start with the pre-flight checklist series, or read how a full build moves through our process. If you are scaling past a hundred aircraft, the support desk covers the operational questions that come up mid-season.

Workshop formats, matched to the fleet you actually fly

Every workshop runs on your own hardware and your own site data where possible. Pick the format that fits the size of the crew, the aircraft count and how close the next paid show is.

Small crew

First Paid Show

Built for two- and three-person teams flying 20 to 50 aircraft. We work through a full Skybrush timeline from Blender blockout to export, then rehearse the launch corridor, the abort call and the battery swap that always lands at the worst moment.

Sequence design and timing offsets
Geofence and Part 101 submission walkthrough
Ground station setup and backup laptop drill

See how a show is scheduled

Scaling up

Fleet Past 100 Units

For operators moving from a single case of drones to a stadium-scale fleet. The focus shifts to logistics: battery rotation schedules, charging capacity on site, crate packing order and the crew roles that keep a 300-aircraft show from stalling at the halfway mark.

Battery rotation and charge planning
RF channel scanning in crowded venues
Crew roles and comms discipline

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On site

Venue and Compliance Clinic

A half-day session at your venue or harbour front, working through the paperwork stack with your safety officer and municipality in the room. We map the display volume, note the public access points underneath it and flag the clauses clients try to push onto the operator.

Site survey and display volume mapping
Insurer and venue document checklist
Wind window and contingency planning

Back to the workshop overview

Feedback from the field

What crews and clients say after the show lands

Workshop sessions only matter if they change what happens on the night. These notes come from operators and event teams who ran our choreography and compliance modules, then flew the result.

30-drone wedding, Cape Winelands

We came in with a Blender blockout and no idea how to time the transitions. The workshop walked us through the Skybrush timeline frame by frame, and the rehearsal notes alone saved us a second of drift on every waypoint.

Ruan M. - two-person display crew

300-aircraft stadium show

The compliance module laid out the Part 101 submission order and the venue's extra requests in one place. We stopped guessing which document the safety officer wanted next, and the lead times held up across the whole build.

Nadia P. - event operations lead

City-centre activation

Our rehearsal was clean and the real show still had two drones lagging. The RF channel planning session explained why the crowd's phones matter, and we now run a spectrum scan before every setup.

Sipho D. - drone operator

Festival slot, coastal site

The battery rotation schedule was the part we did not know we needed. We flew a longer window than planned without grounding a single unit, and the prop wash notes for windy nights were spot on.

Lerato K. - festival production

Scaling past 100 units

We had flown 60 drones for two seasons and were nervous about doubling. The fleet choreography workshop covered the firmware quirks and ground-station setup that only show up at scale.

Marco V. - display team founder

Corporate activation vs festival

The teardown notes from real gigs helped us price a corporate activation honestly instead of copying a festival quote. Clear on what changes between the two, and what we should stop absorbing as the operator.

Thandi N. - independent operator