Most drone-approval providers are consultants who help you prepare paperwork and forward it to CASA. As a CASA ReOC Delegate, we assess and issue Remote Operator Certificates directly under our delegation – and our work is signed off by someone who spent three years inside CASA doing this for the regulator. Here’s what that means for you, with the proof behind each claim.
Since 2015, Steve Griffin has personally completed around 1,850 ReOC assessments and signed off on approximately 2,200 ReOC applications – more than CASA and all the other delegates combined. When your application is assessed here, it’s assessed against more real-world ReOC experience than exists anywhere else in Australia.
Steve spent three years as a Flying Operations Inspector with CASA — including 16 months in the Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Group – where he could directly issue operating approvals. He is a CASA-authorised Testing Officer with more than 46 years in the aviation industry as a Chief Remote Pilot, Chief Pilot, Chief Flying Instructor and Chief Engineer. He knows precisely what CASA requires and why applications get sent back, because he used to be the person sending them back.
Our delegation allows us to issue Remote Operator Certificates directly, rather than preparing your documents and joining the same queue as everyone else. For operating approvals that sit outside our delegation, you have something just as valuable: an assessor who issued exactly those approvals from inside CASA and knows how to get them across the line.
Steve isn’t the only experienced aviator here. Our assessments are supported by a team of highly experienced aviators with real operational backgrounds in training and operations across both crewed and uncrewed aircraft. But every single ReOC application is personally signed off by Steve. You get the capacity of a team and the judgement of the country’s most experienced ReOC assessor on your file — not one or the other.
We commit to a 14-day processing timeline for initial ReOC assessments where you submit complete documentation and can demonstrate the required knowledge. That’s only possible because the work is run by people who have done thousands of these and recognise a compliant application on sight.
Our pricing is very competitive. From time to time a competitor will advertise a “special,” but a headline number rarely reflects what’s actually included or how experienced the person handling your application is. If you’ve been quoted elsewhere, talk to us – we’ll show you exactly what you’re getting for the price, and we back ourselves on value.
We don’t just approve RPAS operations; we run them. Enter Another Dimension Pty Ltd (trading as Uncrewed Approvals) holds its own ReOC, with Steve as Chief Remote Pilot. Under it, we conducted Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations of the Astigan High Altitude Long Endurance RPA and secured the world’s first operating approval for a civilian RPA to operate in the stratosphere, across Australia, Spain and the United Kingdom. If your operation feels too complex to get approved, it’s almost certainly simpler than that.
Uncrewed Approvals is part of a company that has held an Air Operator Certificate since 1995 and still runs a CAR 30–approved aircraft maintenance facility and an aircraft weight-control authority. We also sponsor the Australian Drone Innovation Hub, giving startups free access to our workshop – machining, composites manufacturing, and a high-altitude test chamber rated to pressures equivalent to 100,000 feet. When we assess your build, we understand it, because we build too.
We supply Standard Operations Manuals customised to your specific operations and aircraft, developed from current CASA templates – with optional procedures for specialised operations including tethered, EVLOS and BVLOS flight, ROC, aerial agriculture, aerial washing, and aerodrome operations. You get documentation built for what you actually fly and how you fly it, not a generic template you have to force-fit.
Operators who’ve been through the process say it best – read their testimonials. And whenever you’d rather deal with a person than a portal, you can: assessments can be run face to face if you’d prefer an in-person interview with your assessor (travel costs apply). Either way, you’re dealing directly with the people making the decision.
Ready to start? Send us your details and we’ll tell you exactly what your application needs – and how fast we can turn it around.