Internal tournaments
Compete with your team, your students or your classmates, on an agreed format and at your own venue.
Drone Sports
Sport and events
Drone Racing and Drone Soccer sit under one name. Propulsion Group stays with the sport it comes from, and supports the Dutch racing community through a foundation.
Drone Sports is the place in Propulsion Group for competition. Two disciplines belong here: Drone Racing, and Drone Soccer beside it.
Racing is not a commercial label of Propulsion Group. It runs through Stichting Dutch Drone Racing, the foundation Propulsion Group supports. That foundation is the Dutch entity for the community.
Propulsion Group and Stichting Dutch Drone Racing are the official partners of the FAI and the KNVvL for Drone Sports in the Netherlands. The FAI is the international air sports federation. The KNVvL is the Royal Netherlands Aeronautical Association.
Official FAI regulations
Drone Racing and Drone Soccer
Both disciplines are flown to the official regulations of the FAI. Official tournaments can be organised for either of them.
Drone Racing
Competition
Stichting Dutch Drone Racing is a foundation, and only that. It is the service partner for local races in the Netherlands, and the entity that holds the community here.
Track equipment, lap timers and the other gear belong to the foundation. The material stays with the Dutch community it is there to serve.
Propulsion Group supports the foundation with advice, and financially by hiring the foundation as a service partner.
What that support covers
- Advice for the foundation and the community.
- Financial support, by hiring the foundation as a service partner.
- An advisory role, and work on regulation.
- League setup and design.
Drone Soccer
Team sport
Drone Soccer is the team sport beside racing. Pilots play inside a protected cage and score by flying the drone through the goal.
A team, a class or a group of students can start here and continue to a world stage.
Official rules
Under the official FAI regulations, that same group can go on to an official tournament and a world stage.
Drone Events
Organisation
Propulsion Group organises drone events as a specialist, and leads that field. The expertise covers the competition itself, and everything around it.
5+ FAI World Cups
8+ Dutch championship races
50+ Other national and international races
That includes regulation, track design, race management and software. It also includes one line with the community and with the regulators, the FAI and the KNVvL, plus the simulator and e-racing.
Broadcasting and livestream production belong to the same organisation, for drone races and for events.
Regulation
Competitions to the rules of the class, up to and including an official tournament.
Track design
The course, the gates and the layout of the venue.
Race management
The race day itself: the schedule, the running order and the direction on the floor.
Software
The systems used to plan, score and follow a race.
Community
One line with the pilots and the organisations that carry the sport.
Regulators
Work with the FAI and the KNVvL, the federations for this sport in the Netherlands.
Simulator and e-racing
Training and competition in the simulator, alongside the race at the venue.
Broadcasting
The broadcast of a race or an event, so an audience can follow the flight.
Livestream
Production of the livestream, from the signal to the picture the viewer sees.
The sport and Propulsion Group belong together.
For collaboration around racing, soccer, events or talent.