FAA Part 107 Prep Course

Lt .Col. (Ret) Frederick C. Bivetto joined Unmanned Vehicle University straight from the USAF Test Pilot School (TPS), where he served the Director of Curriculum Standards and Chief Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Test Pilot with responsibility for the development and maintenance of $37M, 1200 hour, Master of Science accredited flight test curricula with over 22 years of engineering, aviation and project management experience. In addition to managing the pilot, navigator/combat systems, officer and flight test engineer curricula, he was initial cadre for the development of the experimental Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)/Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) test pilot curriculum and the university’s first Chief UAV/RPA test pilot. Mr Bivetto holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Master’s Degree in National Security, and is a graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School, which is currently equivalent to a Master’s of Science degree in Flight Test Engineering.

Mr. Bivetto earned his commission in the United States Air Force 1992 through the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corp. He began his Air Force career as an airborne Mission Commander and aeronautical engineer on the EC-135E / EC-18B Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft (ARIA). He led numerous missions to worldwide remote locations for Navy Trident ballistic missile re-entry tests, cruise missile chases and space launches (from DIRECTV to the SPACE SHUTTLE). Mr. Bivetto then went off to specialized and joint undergraduate navigator training, earning an academic excellence award and the wings of a weapon systems officer (WSO) and electronic warfare officer (EWO) flying the mighty B-1 “Bone”.

During his operational career he was the squadron Chief of Standardization/Evaluation, Flight Commander and Top Graduate of the B-1 Centralized Flight Instructor Course. Mr. Bivetto is a multiple combat veteran of Iraq’s OPERATION DESERT FOX and Afghanistan’s OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM with 240 combat flight hours and a tour with International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) as a trainer/mentor. While deployed for OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM he was selected for the prestigious USAF TPS special flying program and graduated with the Ellison Onizuka “Propwash” Award.

During his flight test career he was an Instructor Experimental Flight Test B-1 WSO/EWO, Airborne Laser (YAL-1A) Flight Commander, Joint Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS/X-45) & Global Hawk (RQ-4A/B) Assistant Director of Operations, Operations Officer of a Presidentially-directed unit, Predator (MQ-1) & Reaper (MQ-9) Detachment Commander, Nellis Test and Training Range Squadron Commander and Operations Group Deputy Commander (Experimental Flight Test F-16 WSO & other classified systems).

Mr. Bivetto has accumulated an impressive and diverse series of firsts for the Air Force: first B-1 combat mission (OPERATION DESERT FOX), first B-1 combat mission for night one of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, first B-1 launch of the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW), Laser Weapon Officer for first integrated Airborne Laser systems test, first dual-qualified UAV/RPA test pilot (Global Hawk and Predator), flew first Navy Global Hawk cross-country and the first Predator Viper Strike munition test sortie. Lt. Colonel (Ret) Bivetto is a master aviator, UAV/RPA test pilot, FAA commercial, single/multi-engine (ASEL/AMEL), instrument rated pilot and CFI-A with over 2,500 flight hours in 30 different aircraft. Fred Bivetto d is currently the Dean, School of Unmanned Technology for UVU and teaches UAV301/601 “UAV Fundamentals” and UAV702 “UAV Flight Test”.