3 slots available each week — free

15 minutes.
Honest advice.
No agenda.

Book a free career call with people who've spent 20+ years working across UAV operations, engineering and leadership — at the more complex end of the industry, across defence and commercial programmes, in over 15 countries. Not recruiters. Practitioners.

20+ Years in UAV operations, engineering & leadership
15+ Countries flown in
Ops & Eng Both sides of the industry
Complex Defence & commercial programmes

What to expect

Focused, not rushed

15 minutes used well. No preamble, no padding.

Deep industry experience

We've worked across complex UAV programmes in both defence and commercial sectors — operations, engineering, and leadership at a senior level.

Genuinely candid

We'll tell you what we actually think, not what sounds reassuring.

No sales pitch

We're not here to recruit you. Just to be useful.

Good topics to bring

Thinking about a sector move and not sure where to start
Weighing up a job offer and want an honest sounding board
Considering going contractor and want to understand the real trade-offs
Feeling stuck and not sure how to progress from where you are
Wondering which qualifications are actually worth investing in
Not getting interviews and genuinely not sure why
Transitioning between the operational and engineering sides of the industry

Who this is for

Career Surgery is aimed at UAV professionals who already have some grounding in the industry — whether through flight operations, engineering, technical programme work, or a leadership role in the UAS or wider aerospace space.

We can be most useful when there's already a career to navigate — a decision to make, a move to think through, experience to build on. If you're earlier in your journey and exploring how to break into the sector, the UAV Connector is a better starting point — our fortnightly briefing covers the market in depth and is free to join.

UAV or UAS operators with field experience looking for their next step
Systems or avionics engineers working in or transitioning into unmanned programmes
Defence or government UAV professionals considering a move into industry
Experienced commercial UAV professionals moving into more complex or regulated work
Senior professionals weighing up leadership, consultancy or independent routes
One thing we can't help with: If your question involves moving across borders into roles with security clearance requirements — for example, relocating internationally to work on a closed-market defence programme — we won't be the right people to advise on the eligibility side of that. We'll be upfront if that's the case, and we'll point you in the right direction where we can.

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Three slots each week. Enter your email below. If you're already on the UAV Connector, we'll send your booking link straight away — no second sign-up. If you're not on it yet, we'll add you once and send a quick confirmation first.

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