In S5E30 of Sky Commander Academy, we turn your future BVLOS company into a whiteboard exercise. No corporate buzzwords—just pens, boxes, arrows, and brutal honesty about what it takes to run multiple aircraft, multiple missions, and real risk from a room you design on purpose.

This is an interactive, build-it-as-you-listen episode. By the end, you’ll have a sketched layout of your dream RPAS Operations Center—roles, screens, systems, and workflows—that you can refine into a real plan.

In this episode:
🧱 Start with the mission, not the furniture – How to define what your Ops Center needs to do before you draw a single screen or chair
🧑‍✈️ Core seats on the whiteboard – RPIC, supervisor, dispatcher, safety officer, tech support, VO network: who’s in the room vs who’s in the field
🖥️ The screen wall & workstations – Big-board situational awareness vs per-aircraft detail, and what must be visible at a glance
📡 Systems stack sketch – C2 monitoring, fleet tracking, weather, NOTAMs, UTM/traffic, Remote ID, logs, SMS tools—drawn as real boxes with arrows
📋 Flows, not chaos – Launch, handover, anomaly, and recovery paths mapped as simple arrows instead of “we’ll figure it out live”
🔁 Shift patterns & handover corner – Where your handover briefings live on the board and how you plan to keep humans out of fatigue freefall
🧱 Resilience by design – Redundant comms, backup power, alternate sites: where you bake in “what if this room fails?”
🧪 Two example layouts – A “starter Ops Corner” for a small team and a “future flagship Ops Center” for a serious BVLOS utility program
🧾 Turning the sketch into a roadmap – How to turn your whiteboard into hiring plans, SOP drafts, tool shopping lists, and budget conversations
🚀 Career move: show your whiteboard – How bringing this kind of sketch into an interview or pitch meeting instantly signals you’re thinking like leadership

If you’re content just imagining “some room with screens someday,” you can let someone else design it.
If you want to be the person who can grab a marker and design a credible BVLOS Ops Center from scratch, this is your working session.

Grab the whiteboard. Box the roles. Draw the system.
Prove you can fly it smart—or don’t fly at all.

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