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If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Lawrence Dennis is the owner of Aerial Technology International, and has been flying since 2007. He's flown around the world, and gets into detail about what he's found in the industry over the past 15 years. Where to find Lawrence: Website: ATI ecalc

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Nayid Diaz is a drone pilot based in Houston, TX, and he's flying drones part time, but considering making the jump to full time. Listen in as Nayid tells us all about how he's making $1000 a week part time, flying for Bees360. Where to find Nayid: Email: Nayid_diaz@yahoo.com Mobile Phone: +1-832-641-6039 Bees360 - The Future of Property Inspections

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Chris Robertson is a drone pilot based in Colorado who is the Drone Center Director at the Colorado State University Drone Center. Prior to his current role with the university, he as a university police officer. In this episode, Chris shares his drone experience on both the public safety side of things, as well as the educational side of things. Where to find Chris: Website: CSU Drone Center Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Oli Dickinson is a drone pilot based in the UK, who has had a very fortunate journey in the commercial drone space. Listen in as he discusses how he's flying for IBM and has also garnered attention from CNN. It's really a great drone story that we can all take inspiration from. Where to find Oliver: Website: Different View Photography Facebook Instagram LinkedIn The IBM docuseries trailer The full IBM docuseries (registration required)

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! James Brindley is a commercial drone pilot based in Cornwall, England. In addition to flying under his own company, he's also a franchisee with The SkyCam. In this episode James discusses the startup costs as a franchisee, as well as the fee structure. He also discusses roof inspections, hotels, flying around animals, off roading in his VW Golf, and more! Where to find James: Website: Above The Coast Facebook Instagram The SkyCam Franchise Information

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Shari Williams is a drone pilot based in Philadelphia, who is flying her drone for roof inspections, events, education, and also currently skilling up in the area of tower inspections. In this episode, Chris mentioned a drone pilot that flew for the NHL, but couldn't remember her name during the recording. The good news is that we've located her after the fact, and you can check out the cool work that Nicole Abbett is doing right here. Where to find Shari: Website Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Aaron McKay is a drone pilot from Sydney Australia who has been flying since 2017. He's been a photographer for 20 years, and in this episode describes his journey from pro photographer to full time drone pilot. Aaron is flying a wide range of drones including the DJI Phantom, Mavic, Inspire, Air, and FPV drones, and really dives deep into his construcion progress process. The detail that Aaron provides is absolute gold, so this is an episode that you don't want to miss! Where to find Aaron: Website: Aus Aerial Media Facebook YouTube Instagram Twitter LinkedIn

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! John Lee is a drone pilot based in Arizona, who is a drone mapping professional. In this episode we go into the depths of mapping, and explore all of the acronyms and what they mean to you and your client. John preaches the following, and I think it makes sense for any kind of drone project... "Start with the deliverable in mind." Where to find John: LinkedIn Twitter Office Phone: 1-928-350-6096

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Parker Deuel is a commercial drone pilot and solutions engineer at Drone Deploy. He's bene flying for 6 years, and started off with the original DJI Phantom! We get into the nitty gritty of how to land recurring construction contracts, as well as what the best kind of deliverables are. In addition, we also discuss his role at Drone Deploy and tips and tricks for how to get the absolute best out of your mapping and modelling. Where to find Parker: LinkedIn

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Gerrit Burke is a drone pilot from Hutsville Alabama, who has brought his photography and videography background to drones. Gerrit has been flying drones in real estate, construction, events, restauraunts, dealerships and more. He's a big fan of Adobe Lightroom on the photo side, and Davinci Resolve on the video side of things. He drops an amazing Resolve export tip as well that I'm sure you'll find extremely valuable. Where to find Gerrit: Website: Sparrow Digital Media Facebook Instagram Twitter

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Scott Shtofman is a lawyer and drone pilot based in Tyler, Texas. He has flown roof inspections, contruction, mapping, post-disaster and more with his drones, and in this episode he gets into what has worked well and what has been less than ideal. There are so many valuable takeaways that will certainly help you improve your skills and ramp up your drone business. Scott loves the regulatory and policy side of drones as well, and brings his 10 year background in law to the drone world. Where to find Scott: Website: Quad Axis LLC. Facebook LinkedIn Twitter

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! John Brainerd is a drone pilot from the Philadelphia, PA area, who is working hard on his full time drone business. In this episode, we chat about pricing, how adding motion graphics to drone video can get you ahead of the competition, our mastermind group, and more! Where to find John: Website: 400 Foot Views LinkedIn Instagram YouTube

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Blyde Neser is an Australian drone pilot, who is shooting and creating beautiful prints of the Australian coast. In addition to her fine art drone prints, she's also producing eco friendly yoga mats! She currently pilots the DJI Mavic 2 Pro and Phantom 4 Pro. In addition to drones, she's also taking some of her shots from helicopters, and we get into the required camera settings to shoot from the air. We also chat about real estate work, and you can can check out Real Estate Drone Training right here :) Where to find Blyde: Website: Coastal Drones Facebook Instagram

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Brandon Herring is flying drones with two hats. First he's a high school educator, and has developed a 3 year program for students at two schools in the Fort Smith, AK area. Second, he's also flying for public safety, with the local Sheriffs office. His high school drone program has been developed nicely, with specific tasks and learning objectives for each grade level. The students are also able to receive college credit while still in high school. What a head start! On the public safety side, Brandon is a reserve deputy who is on call to help with a variety of investigations. Brandon averages about 1 public safety flight per week while also balancing his high school educational program. Where to find Brandon: Facebook Email

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Don Wiley is a drone pilot from Florida, who has created a very successful niche drone business. Rather than focusing on massive construction progress jobs, he is working on individual residential home builds. In addition to residential construction progress, he's also creating YouTube videos that cover a specific topic (such as golf cart parades for the recent US Election featuring Donald Trump and Joe Biden). Through those videos and simply via the power of the YouTube algorithm, he adds several hundred dollars a month to his bottom line. Don is also a member of The Drone Trainer Pro. If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Where to find Don: Gold Wingnut Productions (Website) Twitter Facebook YouTube   Mentions in this episode: Going 4ward with DJI Go 4: The complete guide to configuring and using the DJI Go 4 flying app. (Don's Book!) CyberLink PowerDirector Availability of the DJI Phantom 4 Chinese New Year Edition.

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Grant Guillot, a drone lawyer practicing with Adams and Reese LLP in Louisiana, joins us this week for some legal Q&A. Here is the list of questions that we initially went through, and then there are a couple of bonus questions near the end from live attendees: Intellectual Property Related Questions   When working with clients how important is it to have a contract that assigns a license for imagery versus assigning rights, and can you share some examples of typical licensing language for drone services contracts? - Steve Diddle Is it possible / typical to have a contract or license that gives a client certain rights for a specified period of time or purpose and then have the rights revert back to the photographer / videographer / creator of the images/content? - Mark Allen If working without a contract, can it be expected that both parties have full rights to freely use the captured materials? - Chris Anderson When flying and capturing videos and pictures of a field, construction site, farming area or area in the woods, ie not taking videos of structures like buildings, are you able to use the footage without getting permission from the owner of the property? - Peter Matt   Non IP Related Questions   So, I pay for legal shield program which is pre-paid legal services. Is there such a program for drone work? One reason for having it was to hopefully protect me if I were to need an attorney for anything in life but the drone issues is an uncertain area for protection. - Ken Elrich I mainly fly in urban or suburban environments. There are always non-subject people and properties in my shots. I haven't used waivers or permission requests so far. A. Privacy: Do I always need to blur faces, license plates, addresses? Are there situations where I absolutely do need to? What are reasonable precautions to take to avoid violations of privacy? - John Brainerd B. Rights/Waivers: If I'm shooting in public, do I ever owe someone the right to request I delete footage that they are included in, or of footage that includes imagery of a corporate entity's property, etc.? - John Brainerd I'm interested in hearing some feedback on cases you've worked on that may seem obvious to some, but have caught drone pilots off guard with associated legal ramifications. In general terms, if you thought it was OK to do… you'd better think again and here's why. - Bob W Is there access to the “tribunal” to argue a drone fine and it’s applicability to the situation under which it was given. Perhaps the situation was an accident and the operator was trying to correct it at the moment (say a brief link drop that briefly put the drone over people) operator fixed it and landed but then issued a ticket. - Nick Seemel If using random music on my personal videos “was/is” ok would I then have to do something to my old posts if my YouTube channel gained some audience and could be argued to now be somehow commercial. Same question for flying without a Part 107 in the past, but now monetizing my channel. - Nick Seemel I am a Colombian citizen with living in France with the equivalent of a green card. I want to pass the 107 test and I would love to have the opportunity to fly in America, I mean, commercially. The question goes like this: Can I get my 107 licence as a Colombian citizen? If yes, am I able to fly commercially in the US? What are my options? - Antonio Gonima How do you see the laws changing in the future? Will we be able to fly drones indefinitely? Will there be further restrictions once Amazon starts using their drone service, or others? - Steve Martin Do you have a recommendation for minimum aviation liability insurance? - Ryan Beston How far do you think remote ID will go? I don’t have a problem with police officials the FAA knowing who I am and where I am at. I am however concerned about other people knowing. Also, how do you think they will address the issue of drones that do not have the capability of transmitting ID information. - Henry French   Where to find Grant: LinkedIn Twitter MarketScale: Drones in America Email: grant.guillot@arlaw.com   Shoutout to: Vic Moss DroneUp 51 Drones

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Fanie Kooij is a drone pilot from Botswana, who brings an extensive agricultural background to drones. He recently acquired a DJI Agras T16 aerial application (spraying) drone, and has been utilizing it in agriculture. Listen in as he describes how he plans his missions, chemical considerations, water transport, solar charging, and more! In addition to agricultural work, Fanie is also utilizing the spraying drone to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. I won't go into too many details here, as he can describe the process far better than I can. We too look forward to working with aerial application drones (sprayer or spraying drones) as they become more prevalent and can cover massive areas of farmland. Where to find Fanie: Facebook WhatsApp: +267 72 520 814

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Joe is a two time Emmy award-winning Producer and Founder of Orionvega, Pittsburgh video production company. He has produced highly-visible projects for a variety of clients including Dove, Calvin Klein, Olympic Paints, and AOL. Networks that have featured Joe’s work include ChannelNews Asia, PBS, SPIKE, HGTV, DISCOVERY, and Comedy Central. Over the years, Joe has hired drone pilots to work with him on his video productions. In this episode he discusses what he was looking for when hiring a drone pilot, and also the greater knowledge that he has now since obtaining his FAA Part 107 license. The plugin that Joe mentions is Neat Video Plugin. Where to find Joe: Orionvega (video production website) Eyes From The Skies (drone website) Twitter Instagram Facebook Vimeo

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Sally French has been a drone journalist and commercial drone pilot for 7 years, and shares her industry insight and more in this week's chat! We cover off how drones got into journalism, what works and what doesn't work, as well as her non journalism related commercial drone flight! Where to find Sally: The Drone Girl (website) Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube

If you're looking to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth in your drone business, TDT Pro is for you! Check out The Drone Trainer Pro right here! Michael Hill is a drone pilot from Dallas, TX, who is working in a wide range of industries with his drone. He's working in search and rescue, wind turbine and cell tower inspections, NASCAR, education, training, consultancy and more. Listen in as we dig into SAR missions, including planning and search techniques, as well as infrared technology utilizing the FLIR XT camera on his DJI M210. Where to find Michael: Cumulus Technologies (website) Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Facebook