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ACE Remote Operations Tour·Perth → Geraldton → Carnarvon → Karratha → Port Hedland → Broome → Derby
A successful trip. A big Australian adventure. And a reason to do it all again. We take the academy on the road every year, bringing practical drone training closer to regional communities. Enquire now to plan your place on the next trip — or bring the team to your town.
Registering interest helps shape the next route — it’s free and not a commitment to enrol.
The mission
The people who need commercial drone capability most — station managers, mine supervisors, surveyors, shire crews, ag contractors — are the furthest from where training is usually delivered. The standard answer is flights, accommodation and a week away from the operation.
We think that’s backwards. So we packed the academy into a vehicle and planned a route up the WA coast, through the Pilbara and the Kimberley, then home through the Red Centre to Melbourne. The trip focuses on bringing hands-on drone ops, agricultural applications, engineering, and school learning directly to the regions.
Where the next annual tour stops is decided by one thing: the towns that put their hand up.
8,800+ km route plan.
15+ regional locations.
Across WA, NT, SA & VIC.
One mobile academy.
Bring the mission. We’ll bring the academy.
The route
Don’t see your town? Add it to the next route.
The 2026 route plan featured CASA-approved training across 15+ regional locations. For our next annual trip, the stops are still shaped by demand: register your town and rally your crew.
Six regions
Anchors: Perth
Home base and largest urban training market in WA — the tour launches here before heading north.
Mining & resources · Construction · Infrastructure & utilities
Enquire for next trip →Anchors: Geraldton · Karratha · Port Hedland
Iron ore, ports, pastoral stations and energy infrastructure spread across enormous distances — inspection, survey and corridor work happens a long way from any classroom.
Mining & resources · Ports & logistics · Stations & agribusiness
Enquire for next trip →Anchors: Broome · Derby
Vast country, wet-season access limits and long road distances make aerial capability genuinely operational, not optional.
Pastoral & agriculture · Community organisations · Tourism & land management
Enquire for next trip →Anchors: Set by demand
Cattle operations, remote communities and infrastructure corridors across the NT — where travel to capital-city training costs days, not hours.
Cattle & agribusiness · Councils & regional services · Infrastructure & utilities
Enquire for next trip →Anchors: Adelaide
Opal fields, pastoral leases, renewables and transport corridors — a spread of industries that all use aerial inspection and survey.
Mining & energy · Agriculture · Surveying & construction
Enquire for next trip →Anchors: Melbourne
Broadacre cropping and regional centres on the run home to Melbourne — and the ACE training base.
Broadacre agriculture · Agronomy services · Commercial operators
Enquire for next trip →
The rig · on-site delivery, Australia-wide
The campus has a numberplate.
Same instructors, same standard as ACE’s city bases — packed into the fleet and pointed up the highway.
The mobile academy
This isn’t a pop-up stand and a brochure. It’s the working academy, packed for corrugations — the same training delivered at ACE’s city bases, brought to your patch.
Training on the road
The foundation licence for commercial drone operations.
Radio competency for operating near controlled airspace and crewed aviation.
For businesses building their own drone operation under their own certificate.
Spray and spreading operations for stations, farms and ag contractors.
Heavy-lift, medium-category aircraft and approved night operations.
Whole-crew delivery for mines, councils, utilities and emergency services.
Program availability at each stop depends on demand, aircraft logistics and venue. Tell us what you’re preparing for and we’ll scope it properly for our next trip.
Request a regional delivery proposalAfter the licence
Every stop plugs trainees into the full ACE ecosystem — so capability built in the regions keeps working in the regions.
Train
CASA-approved licences, ratings and enterprise programs — delivered on the tour and at bases Australia-wide.
Explore training →Comply
Operations management and compliance tooling that keeps remote crews audit-ready long after the truck leaves.
uamp.ai →Work
Australia's drone pilot-and-job platform — where regional operators list capability and find local work.
dronework.com.au →Who it's for
Spraying, spreading, mustering support, water-point checks and crop monitoring across large holdings.
Stockpile volumetrics, pit inspections, exploration support and site compliance capture.
Site mapping, corridor capture, volumetrics and as-built documentation.
Asset inspection, search support, fire mapping and disaster assessment capability in-house.
Powerline, tower, road and pipeline inspection without scaffolds or shutdowns.
Building local service capability — inspection, media, mapping and ag support close to home.
Host a stop
Shires, mines, stations, ag suppliers, aero clubs, community organisations — hosts make stops happen. If you can offer a venue or open area, local industry demand, or a group of interested operators, you’re exactly who we want to hear from for our next trip.
Hosting interest doesn’t guarantee a stop — but every confirmed stop starts with a local who put their hand up.
Expressions of interest
Two minutes. No commitment. Every registration is a data point that pulls the next annual route — and the academy — closer to your patch.
Questions
The final stops for our annual trip are set by registered demand, venue availability, logistics and operational requirements. Registering your town is the strongest way to influence where the mobile academy stops.
Depending on demand and scheduling at each stop: RePL, AROC, commercial operations pathways (ReOC and Chief Remote Pilot), agricultural drone operations, specialist aircraft ratings, night operations and enterprise team training.
Yes. Enterprise and group delivery is a core purpose of the tour. Register as a team or organisation and the team will scope a regional delivery proposal with you.
No commitment needed at registration. Equipment arrangements are confirmed for each program before it runs — the mobile academy carries training aircraft, and the team will confirm exactly what is provided for your program.
Your town is added to the demand map. The ACE team assesses interest along the corridor, then contacts you about likely timing for the next trip, participant numbers and the right training pathway before anything is locked in.
Yes. Hosts typically offer a venue or open area, local industry demand, or a group of interested operators. Choose “Potential host” on the registration form and the team will start the conversation.
The route shown above highlights our successful 2026 trip. The next annual route is currently taking shape based on the demand we receive — registering your town is what triggers stops being added.
No. Program availability at each stop depends on demand, instructor availability, aircraft logistics, venue suitability and airspace or operational requirements.