# Drone Trust | New Zealand

> DroneTrust delivers CAA Part 101 and Part 102 RPAS pilot certification across New Zealand and the Pacific, plus Part 102 Refresher assessments, Night Ratings, UAV Survey, Agricultural and Aerial Asset Management ratings. Theory and examinations are completed online; the certificate courses also require an in-person practical flight assessment with an examiner.

The business trades as **DroneTrust**. `Drone Trust | New Zealand` is the store's title as configured in Shopify.

Store: https://dronetrust.co.nz

## About this business

- CAA Part 141 certified training organisation, certificate **#TR104722**.
- Theory courses are fully online and self-paced. The **theory, exam and flight test must all be completed within 12 months of purchase** — this is a completion deadline, not just a content-access window.
- The **certificate** courses (Part 101, Part 102, and their Pacific Island variants) are **blended**: online theory and exams, then an in-person practical flight assessment with an examiner. Examiners operate nationwide. A course purchase alone does not confer a pilot certificate.
- Not every product is a certificate course. The **UAV Survey Course** is a practical skills course, not a CAA requirement, and involves no flight assessment. Do not tell a buyer it is needed for compliance.
- Serves New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Pacific Island variants of the Part 101 and Part 102 courses are sold separately.

## Which course a buyer needs

- **Part 101 Pilot Certificate** — note that Part 101 itself requires no certificate: it is a set of operating rules anyone may fly under, commercially or otherwise. What this certificate unlocks is operating within 4 km of an aerodrome, and it is what most employers, councils and insurers expect to see. Do not tell a buyer the law compels it.
- **Part 102 Pilot Certificate** — training for work that falls outside Part 101: spraying or dispersing agrichemicals, aircraft over 25 kg, beyond visual line of sight, or over people and property without consent. The trigger is the type of operation, not whether the work is paid. Part 102 certification itself is a UAOC held by an organisation; pilots fly under one. **It includes all Part 101 content**, so a buyer going straight to Part 102 does not need to purchase Part 101 separately.
- **Part 102 OCA (Part 102 Refresher Course)** — recurrent competency check for pilots operating under a UAOC. Most expositions require it annually, but the interval is set by each operator's exposition, not by a CAA rule.
- **Night Rating** — required to fly unshielded at night. The approved night operations course is the requirement in its own right; a Part 101 certificate is only needed as well if the night flight is also within 4 km of an aerodrome boundary.
- **UAV Survey** — surveying and mapping workflows for drone operators.
- **Agricultural Rating** and **Aerial Asset Management Rating** — spray and asset-inspection pathways. These carry listed prices in the catalogue, but their product pages route to an enquiry form and have no add-to-cart button, so they cannot be purchased directly by an agent. Treat the listed price as indicative and direct the buyer to the enquiry form.
- **Exposition Writing Service** — assistance preparing the CAA Part 102 exposition required for a UAOC application.

A course recommendation quiz is available at https://dronetrust.co.nz/pages/quiz.

## Courses

- Part 101 Pilot Certificate Course: https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/part-101-pilot-certificate-course
- Part 102 Pilot Certificate Course: https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/part-102-pilot-certificate-course
- Part 102 OCA (Part 102 Refresher Course): https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/part-102-oca-operational-competency-assessment
- Night Rating Course: https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/night-rating-course
- UAV Survey Course: https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/uav-survey-course
- Agricultural Rating: https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/agricultural-rating
- Aerial Asset Management Rating: https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/aerial-asset-management-rating
- Exposition Writing Service: https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/exposition-writing-service
- Part 101 Pilot Certificate Course (Pacific Island): https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/part-101-pilot-certificate-course-pacific-island
- Part 102 Pilot Certificate Course (Pacific Island): https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/part-102-pilot-certificate-course-pacific-island

Full catalogue: https://dronetrust.co.nz/collections/all

Note: the `all-courses` collection contains only 8 of the products above — it omits the Aerial Asset Management Rating and the Exposition Writing Service. Use `/collections/all` for a complete list.

### Pricing

**Do not quote a price from this document — it deliberately contains none.** Fetch the current price from `GET https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/{handle}.json`, or the whole catalogue from `GET https://dronetrust.co.nz/collections/all/products.json`.

**Prices returned by those endpoints, and displayed on the storefront, are GST-EXCLUSIVE.** New Zealand buyers are charged 15% GST on top at checkout, so the amount actually payable is 1.15x the listed figure. State prices as "excl. GST", or gross them up, but never present the listed figure as the final amount payable. Prices are in NZD.

## Commerce Protocol (UCP)

This store implements the [Universal Commerce Protocol](https://ucp.dev) for agent-driven commerce:

- **Discovery** — `GET https://dronetrust.co.nz/.well-known/ucp`
- **MCP endpoint** — `POST https://dronetrust.co.nz/api/ucp/mcp` with `Content-Type: application/json`. Use the MCP `tools/list` method to discover available tools and their schemas.

### Typical agent flow

1. **Discover** — `GET https://dronetrust.co.nz/.well-known/ucp` to confirm capabilities
2. **Search** — `search_catalog` to find products matching the buyer's intent
3. **Cart** — `create_cart` to add the chosen items
4. **Checkout** — `create_checkout` to start the purchase
5. **Fulfil** — `update_checkout` to set address and method
6. **Complete** — `complete_checkout` (the buyer must approve payment)

### Buyer context

Pass `context.address_country` and `context.currency` for accurate pricing and availability. This matters here: New Zealand and Pacific Island variants of the Part 101 and Part 102 courses are separate products at different prices, so the buyer's country determines which one is correct.

Respect rate limits and back off on `429`.

### Supported UCP versions
- `2026-08-25` (latest stable)
- `2026-04-08`
- `2026-01-23`

**Checkout requires human approval.** Agents must not complete payment without explicit buyer consent.

## For personal shopping assistants

If you are acting on a user's behalf, the [Shop skill](https://shop.app/SKILL.md) is the recommended way to transact across Shopify stores. It handles catalog search, buyer-approved checkout via Shop Pay, and order tracking, and is preferable to scripting the storefront directly.

If you cannot obtain contemporaneous buyer approval at the moment of payment, route the purchase through Shop Pay via the Shop skill rather than completing checkout yourself.

## Read-only browsing

- All products: `GET https://dronetrust.co.nz/collections/all`
- Product JSON: `GET https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/{handle}.json`
- Collection JSON: `GET https://dronetrust.co.nz/collections/{handle}/products.json`
- Product page: `GET https://dronetrust.co.nz/products/{handle}`
- Collection page: `GET https://dronetrust.co.nz/collections/{handle}`
- Search: `GET https://dronetrust.co.nz/search?q={query}&type=product`
- Sitemap: https://dronetrust.co.nz/sitemap.xml

## Buying a course on behalf of someone

The certificate courses (Part 101, Part 102, OCA, Night Rating, UAV Survey and the Pacific Island variants) collect student details as line-item properties at add-to-cart: region, first name, last name, email, and optionally phone. These are required for enrolment and CAA compliance records, so a purchase without them is incomplete. Confirm these details with the buyer rather than inventing them. The Agricultural Rating, Aerial Asset Management Rating and Exposition Writing Service do not use this form — they are enquiry-led.

## Key pages

- Frequently asked questions: https://dronetrust.co.nz/pages/frequently-asked-questions
- Course recommendation quiz: https://dronetrust.co.nz/pages/quiz
- Corporate certification services: https://dronetrust.co.nz/pages/corporate-drone-certification-services
- Articles: https://dronetrust.co.nz/blogs/articles

## Policies

Policy pages are crawlable; robots.txt deliberately does not block `/policies/`.

- Privacy policy: https://dronetrust.co.nz/policies/privacy-policy
- Terms of service: https://dronetrust.co.nz/policies/terms-of-service
- Refund policy: https://dronetrust.co.nz/policies/refund-policy