The "Star River Leading the World" passenger space is located in the hillside of Putian, Longgang District, Shenzhen. There is a dedicated 10000 square meter flying field on the top of the mountain, which is a perfect place for flying drones. Wang Fan, director of public relations at DJI DJI, jokingly said: When I first arrived, I discovered that the phone automatically connected to the WiFi. Indeed, just three months ago, he came here to participate in the unveiling of the Huifei UAV Application Technology Training Center. Yesterday, in the same place, Huifei Shenzhen Campus held a graduation ceremony for their first students.
Huifei trainees operate drones (pictures from Hui Fei)
graduationOn June 6 this year, as a leader in consumer-grade drones, DJI announced the establishment of a wholly-owned subsidiary, Huifei UAV Application Technology Training Center, and officially entered the field of drone training. Yesterday, Hui Fei graduated from the first batch of "real-name flyers" who received training in education for drones in the industry.
There were 24 students who graduated from this batch and all of them participated in training courses for “Agricultural Plant Protection Machinesâ€. Some of them had previously had experience in plant protection work for drones for a long time.
Most of the trainees who came to the training were not ordinary “newbiesâ€, and some may only be the “white background of plant protection knowledge,†but they have already had experience in the operation of drones of other brands or models.
Hui fly UAV training center in Shenzhen campus operations director Zhuxing Hao Lei Feng told the network: This training course is mainly for the basic structure and principles of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles, agricultural plant protection Dajiang machine use and maintenance MG-1, and flight safety conduct of knowledge, relevant national laws and regulations, common crop pest and weed prevention methods such as lectures, but there are a lot of students have few skills or where a particular understanding before coming, so they would not other Familiar skills for targeted reinforcement training.
Among the graduates of Huifei Training Center Shenzhen Campus, there was a student from Xinjiang named Liu Tao. Before attending Huifei drone training class, he had already engaged in the plant protection industry for two years. Liu Tao has already had a company in Xinjiang that is exclusively responsible for purchasing drones to do user protection for planting pesticides.
Liu Tao said that when he entered the crop protection drone industry two years ago, there were many so-called “flyers†in the industry who were novices, and neither the handling nor the routine maintenance of the drones was mature enough. The accidents caused by improper bombings are frequent, and when drones accidents, many flyers do not understand emergency rescue at all.
The maintenance cost of a drone bomber is equivalent to the cost of spraying a few hundred acres of pesticides. That is to say, if you blow up a machine, it will be done in a few days. In case of bad luck, such as falling into the water and the like. The entire drone was basically abolished, and tens of thousands of drones were lost. Therefore, there is a lack of standardization and standardization in the training of drone pilots, which is an urgent task for training industry application professionals.
EmploymentIn March of this year, when Dajiang released the MG-1 plant protection machine, it said that it would train 10,000 flying players to support the after-sales service system in the coming days. This is one reason Hui Fei was born. But all the training industry will face a problem - when will the students go after graduation.
When Huifei UAV Training Center was unveiled in June, Wang Fan, director of public relations at Dajiang, gave this question:
For Dajiang itself, there are many places and professional categories that require a large number of new flyers to expand their business, or to work together with partners to create new projects. Only this, Dajiang can digest a large number of Participants; At the same time, externally, DJI will collect relevant information and employment intentions of Huifei trainees, and at the same time, collect information on employment needs from various external units and be a hub for talented people to get involved. Faced with such a huge demand for drone driving talent, I believe there is no need to worry about the employment situation of the trainees.
In the blink of an eye, more than two months passed and Hui Fei's first group of students had graduated. Lei Fengnet once again inquired about the place of the first group of trainees. Huifei Shenzhen District Chief Operating Officer Zhu Xingyu told Lei Fengwang:
The employment support work for this group of students is in progress. They have already filled in the employment intention table. Based on the scores of these students, we will use the views of the headquarters to provide them with targeted employment advice. Of course, the outstanding students who meet our recruitment requirements will also be recruited as teachers.
Wang Fan also mentioned at the graduation ceremony that during the time Hui Fei was established, some students began to try their own business.
marketIn the past two years, drone riders were considered "super-high-paying" occupations. With reference to earlier reports, a qualified professional-grade drone rider could receive a maximum daily salary of over 10,000 yuan a year ago. Such high treatment is inseparable from the scarcity of people. Due to the high salary, new students attracted by the treatment quickly grew in the short term, and drone training institutions also mushroomed.
Because of the influx of a large number of flying hands, "new breakthroughs in the past" have become a myth that cannot be copied. Lei Feng network consulted relevant practitioners, taking the market in August this year as an example, the salary of the flying man has reached a "normal level."
The average monthly salary is three or four thousand, but during the peak season of the first two months, there are tens of thousands, and if the winter season reaches the off-season, it will decrease accordingly.
A drone plant protection practitioner told Lei Feng Network (search "Lei Feng Net" public concern) .
Liu Tao, a group of Hui Fei graduates, also stated that in Xinjiang, the price of unmanned plant protection and pesticide spraying this year is also lower than last year.
Last year, about a dozen acres were sprayed, and this year it dropped to 12.
As he saw the benefits of plant protection in the UAV industry, a large number of platforms and influxes poured in and wanted to get a piece of it, resulting in chaos in the market. Drone plant protection had already experienced the scarcity of talents at the very beginning like the “special carâ€. The stage of virtual high enters another mixed battlefield.
The drone industry application is not just as simple as flying a drone. Taking plant protection means not only flying drones, but also plant protection knowledge. In addition, everyone is now rushing to grab the plant protection is only a piece of this, the future in the power line inspection, address exploration and other industries will need to use relatively professional talent. Therefore, in the demand for this flight, after the requirements will be more and more stringent, more professional, survival of the fittest, and now this simple operation of technology training and low prices for market behavior will end. Â
In other words, the status quo of the human talent market for drones is still at a stage of development. It is far from enough that drone training organizations are obliged to train on the basic operations of drones. When the future demand for talent for drones reaches a professional level, that is, when the training market for drones is stable, drone riders will become a stable career.
educationIn June this year, when Daji announced Hui Fei’s establishment, there were industry figures who stated that:
Dajiang is trying to move to the education industry as a leader. After all, the growth of the drone market is not as good as before.
Nowadays, talent cultivation in the drone industry is not a dispensable financial business. With the departure of carriages from carriages, and the arrival of car drivers, no matter which industry is emerging, it needs some professional talents to support it. With the popularization and specialization of the application of the drone industry, it will inevitably require a large number of professionals.
A few days ago, Lei Fengwang once said in an article “When you are still considering whether it will walk down the altar, Daji silently cultivated the next Dajiangâ€, Dajiang still reported that RoboMasters was The purpose of man-machine games and summer camp activities is to discover and cultivate top-notch talents. It can be seen that their emphasis on talents is indeed commendable.
Whether it is for Dajiang or any other innovative company, talents are always indispensable. Therefore, there are good educational resources that can provide them with more fresh blood, allowing them to establish a more complete closed-loop and more benign manner. The direction of the cycle is to develop itself and the entire industry.
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