The Drone Trainer Podcast

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 Join our community at TDT Pro! Join a support and strategy-focused community for commercial drone pilots who are ready to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth: Join now for free! Please support the show: BTC: bc1qr2nzt7aanyj2j3qrtty7y5gn6l86kdngjp6ejd ETH: 0xBca1860E88A8239F779E553210bD9D21042702D9 XMR: 87Jirm5GHkLEiuXFJVkdrfJo6e4RnAmH87H3PfmXDf3PbLGMJiWRWxy6fhAUbNw37j6RbA11b3BsnBCtxLY9ocNh5pd4Dmn

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 Join our community at TDT Pro! Join a support and strategy-focused community for commercial drone pilots who are ready to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth: Join now for free! Please support the show: BTC: bc1qr2nzt7aanyj2j3qrtty7y5gn6l86kdngjp6ejd ETH: 0xBca1860E88A8239F779E553210bD9D21042702D9 XMR: 87Jirm5GHkLEiuXFJVkdrfJo6e4RnAmH87H3PfmXDf3PbLGMJiWRWxy6fhAUbNw37j6RbA11b3BsnBCtxLY9ocNh5pd4Dmn

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 Join our community at TDT Pro! Join a support and strategy-focused community for commercial drone pilots who are ready to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth: Join now for free! Please support the show: BTC: bc1qr2nzt7aanyj2j3qrtty7y5gn6l86kdngjp6ejd ETH: 0xBca1860E88A8239F779E553210bD9D21042702D9 XMR: 87Jirm5GHkLEiuXFJVkdrfJo6e4RnAmH87H3PfmXDf3PbLGMJiWRWxy6fhAUbNw37j6RbA11b3BsnBCtxLY9ocNh5pd4Dmn

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 Join our community at TDT Pro! Join a support and strategy-focused community for commercial drone pilots who are ready to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth: Join now for free! Please support the show: BTC: bc1qr2nzt7aanyj2j3qrtty7y5gn6l86kdngjp6ejd ETH: 0xBca1860E88A8239F779E553210bD9D21042702D9 XMR: 87Jirm5GHkLEiuXFJVkdrfJo6e4RnAmH87H3PfmXDf3PbLGMJiWRWxy6fhAUbNw37j6RbA11b3BsnBCtxLY9ocNh5pd4Dmn

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 Join our community at TDT Pro! Join a support and strategy-focused community for commercial drone pilots who are ready to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth: Join now for free! Please support the show: BTC: bc1qr2nzt7aanyj2j3qrtty7y5gn6l86kdngjp6ejd ETH: 0xBca1860E88A8239F779E553210bD9D21042702D9 XMR: 87Jirm5GHkLEiuXFJVkdrfJo6e4RnAmH87H3PfmXDf3PbLGMJiWRWxy6fhAUbNw37j6RbA11b3BsnBCtxLY9ocNh5pd4Dmn

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 Join our community at TDT Pro! Join a support and strategy-focused community for commercial drone pilots who are ready to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth: Join now for free! Please support the show: BTC: bc1qr2nzt7aanyj2j3qrtty7y5gn6l86kdngjp6ejd ETH: 0xBca1860E88A8239F779E553210bD9D21042702D9 XMR: 87Jirm5GHkLEiuXFJVkdrfJo6e4RnAmH87H3PfmXDf3PbLGMJiWRWxy6fhAUbNw37j6RbA11b3BsnBCtxLY9ocNh5pd4Dmn

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 Join our community at TDT Pro! Join a support and strategy-focused community for commercial drone pilots who are ready to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth: Join now for free! Please support the show: BTC: bc1qr2nzt7aanyj2j3qrtty7y5gn6l86kdngjp6ejd ETH: 0xBca1860E88A8239F779E553210bD9D21042702D9 XMR: 87Jirm5GHkLEiuXFJVkdrfJo6e4RnAmH87H3PfmXDf3PbLGMJiWRWxy6fhAUbNw37j6RbA11b3BsnBCtxLY9ocNh5pd4Dmn

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 Join our community at TDT Pro! Join a support and strategy-focused community for commercial drone pilots who are ready to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth: Join now for free! Please support the show: BTC: bc1qr2nzt7aanyj2j3qrtty7y5gn6l86kdngjp6ejd ETH: 0xBca1860E88A8239F779E553210bD9D21042702D9 XMR: 87Jirm5GHkLEiuXFJVkdrfJo6e4RnAmH87H3PfmXDf3PbLGMJiWRWxy6fhAUbNw37j6RbA11b3BsnBCtxLY9ocNh5pd4Dmn

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 Join our community at TDT Pro! Join a support and strategy-focused community for commercial drone pilots who are ready to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth: Join now for free! Please support the show: BTC: bc1qr2nzt7aanyj2j3qrtty7y5gn6l86kdngjp6ejd ETH: 0xBca1860E88A8239F779E553210bD9D21042702D9 XMR: 87Jirm5GHkLEiuXFJVkdrfJo6e4RnAmH87H3PfmXDf3PbLGMJiWRWxy6fhAUbNw37j6RbA11b3BsnBCtxLY9ocNh5pd4Dmn

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 Join our community at TDT Pro! Join a support and strategy-focused community for commercial drone pilots who are ready to make the jump from sporadic revenue to scalable and consistent growth: Join now for free! Please support the show: BTC: bc1qr2nzt7aanyj2j3qrtty7y5gn6l86kdngjp6ejd

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

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 t

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

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! Steve Diddle has been flying drones for 10 years now, and was one of the early drone ambassadors for the Parrot Bebop. Over the years he has been contributing stock footage to companies such as Getty Images, Shutterstock, and more. In this episode, Steve shares with us what works and what doesn't in the stock footage game. You're going to hear everything from how much you get paid, and what formats work the best. In addition to stock, we also discuss camera settings to help capture the best photos and videos that you can. Everything from exposure and composition, to rule of thirds and panoramas. Speaking of Panoramas, here is a preview of the one that I discussed during this episode: Where to find Steve: YouTube Instagram Drone Outlook (Website) Looking for drone insurance? Check out Skywatch!

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! You probably know Ken Dono as OriginaldoBo, right? Ken joins us on this week's episode to discuss drones in real estate, and his successful YouTube channel. The real estate discussion doesn't just stop with drones, as Ken also gives us insight into how he shoots interiors and exteriors with his ground based cameras. Yep, we get into aperture, ISO and shutter speed, shooting wide, and more! You can find Ken on YouTube, Twitter, & 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! Benjamin Ritt is a drone pilot from Texas, who has been utilizing a variety of drone technology to survey beaches and coastlines. During our chat, Benjamin offered up a dataset for us to download and try our hand at coastal mapping. If you’d like to download that dataset for free, simply drop your name and email below, and we’ll send it to you ASAP! https://thedronetrainer.com/map/ We’ve been drone mapping for a long time now, however since we are landlocked we don’t often have the opportunity to map shorelines or really anything to do with water. That’s where Benjamin Ritt comes in! As we chat with Ben, he reveals his workflow, and how he overcomes the obstacle of mapping a moving body such as water. When everything sits still it’s far easier than when it’s moving, is reflective, sometimes lets you see through it depending on

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! Sydney Lisignoli is an Oregon based drone pilot, who working on growing her commercial drone business. She obtained her Part 107 in 2019, and is currently flying the DJI Mavic Pro. She's been keeping busy flying for automobile dealerships, real estate, agriculture, mapping, construction progress, and more. Shes editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, and mentioned that Peter McKinnon's video editing tutorials have been a great help. You can find Sydney on her website, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.