Synopsis
Are you looking to have a successful drone business? Join The Drone Trainer, Chris Anderson, as he interviews other successful drone pilots from around the world. In these weekly interviews, you'll hear about everything from marketing your drone business to flight tips, and a variety of ideas that you can use to help your drone business really take off! Yes, that pun was intended! Subscribe now :)
Episodes
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124. BVLOS Drone Flight with Melissa Schiele
12/08/2020 Duration: 37minIf 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! Melissa Schiele is a marine ecologist from London, UK, who is flying in Belize, Maldives and British Indian Ocean Territories. She is flying beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) for mapping, animal detection, and illegal activity detection. Awesome, right?! You can find Melissa on Twitter @explorer_mel
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123. North Carolina State University Chief of Staff and Drone Pilot, Justine Hollingshead
22/07/2020 Duration: 41minIf 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! Justine Hollingshead is the NC State University Chief of Staff, Vice Chancellor, and drone pilot. She is an AUVSI TOP Level 2 certified pilot, and we dig into what that means and what it's worth. We also discuss FAA Part 107 licensing and how that may fit with what AUVSI is currently doing. At NC State, Justine and her team have been provided a grant from the National Science Foundation, and are working on 5G research with drones. She's also worked on projects involving assisting local police, missing person searches, and more. You can find Justine on Twitter, email at jrhollin@ncsu.edu or call her direct at 919-434-4167.
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122. Drones in Construction with Corey Lee Knight
08/07/2020 Duration: 33minIf 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! Corey is a drone pilot based in Indiana. He's a full time teacher, but is side hustling with his drone in construction, real estate, orchards, and more. To check out the photo printing video he mentioned click here. He also describes a great sales tactic involving gifts that I think you'll really enjoy and can likely employ in your drone business! You can find Corey on his website, Facebook, instagram, and YouTube.
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121. Silky Smooth Indoor Drone Videos and more with Bram De Ryck
24/06/2020 Duration: 31minIf 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! Bram De Ryck is a drone pilot based in Leuven, Belgium. He is flying indoors creating some amazingly smooth video with his custom FPV drones, Insta360 camera, and GoPro Hero 7. Once back in the studio, he edits with DaVinci Resolve and ReelSteady to smooth everything out. It really is amazing work, and if you're not familiar with this style of drone flight and video production, you're going to be in for a surprise! You can see his amazing work on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
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120. Embry-Riddle Educated Professional Drone Pilot, Tyler Jackson
10/06/2020 Duration: 22minIf 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! Tyler is a professional drone pilot that studied at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Since graduating, he has worked on major projects such as the PG&E Fire Prevention in California, utilizing drones everywhere from the Mavic Pro to the M210 with X5S camera system. His work experience with drones extends beyond fire prevention, as he also has experience with insurance claims, real estate, construction, and more. You can find Tyler on LinkedIn.
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119. Drone LiDAR for photogrammetry, mapping, and inspections with Vashaun Henderson
27/05/2020 Duration: 49minIf 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! Vashaun Henderson and his company, Rekon Solutions, are conducing drone LiDAR photogrammetry, mapping, inspections, and more in the Vernon, BC area. His drone fleet consists of the DJI M600, DJI M210 RTK with X4S / Z30 / XT2 camera systems, as well as the Mavic 2 Pro. He's been flying since 2015, and went full time in 2018. You can find Vashaun on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and his website.
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118. Drones and a full time content creator, with Stephanie Alexis
13/05/2020 Duration: 28minIf 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! Working as a full time content creator for a home builder, Stephanie Alexis discusses how drones have helped compliment her work from an aerial angle. Listen in as we discuss how a helicopter flight back in 2015 helped fuel her passion for aerial photography, the transition from FCPX to Premiere Pro, and drone work on a music video in Miami Florida. You can find Stephanie on Instagram corporately and personally, as well as her website.
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117. Roof and Telecom Tower Drone Mapping and Modelling with Danny Elassad
08/04/2020 Duration: 26minIf 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! Danny Elassad is a drone pilot based in Sydney, Australia. He is conducting roof and telecom tower mapping and modelling, and discusses how he gets detail down to the millimetre! In this episode, we're going to discuss differences in photogrammetry software, how to fly your mapping and modelling missions, and more! Danny can be found on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.
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116. Flock Management with Dan Swafford
25/03/2020 Duration: 29minIf 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! Bringing a 39 year agricultural background, Dan Swafford is a project associate at Virginia Tech. Dan is currently conducting flock management, including research with sheep health and how they react to drones. Dan can be contacted via email at jswaffor@vt.edu
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115. Tourism and Agricultural Drone Photography with Fiona Lake
18/03/2020 Duration: 53minIf 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! Fiona Lake is an Australian drone pilot, that brings 30 years of agriculture, and helicopter based aerial photography. She's now working in drones, with a focus on tourism and agriculture. You can find Fiona on her website as well as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
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114. Drone Swarm Light Shows with Hitomi Uematsu
29/01/2020 Duration: 40minIf 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! Hitomi Uematsu is the co-founder of Sky Magic, a drone swarm and autonomous technology company based in Singapore. Hitomi and her team have flown and put on shows all around the world, and have recently set a Guinness World Record! You can find Hitomi on her website at Skymagic.show as well as Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.
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113. Drone Mapping and Precision Agriculture with Ryan Johnson
22/01/2020 Duration: 46minIf 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! Ryan Johnson is a drone pilot based on Fargo, North Dakota, and has been in business for 4 years. His first 3 years were part time, and he has now been full time drones for the past year. Ryan's business consists of mapping, precision agriculture, as well as real estate and marketing. You can find Ryan on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and his website.
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112. How to pass your FAA Part 107 with Alan Perlman
17/01/2020 Duration: 48minIf 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! I receive a lot of questions surrounding the FAA Part 107 drone exam and license, so I've brought on one of the premiere instructors to speak to you on this very topic. Alan Perlman is instructing at the popular Drone Pilot Ground School, and has a lot of awesome insights to share with everyone on the Part 107 exam and process. And as we mention during our chat, you can save $50 off the course fees right here! You can find Alan on LinkedIn, and at Drone Pilot Ground School.
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111. Skydio 2 with Billy Kyle
08/01/2020 Duration: 01h01minIf 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! Billy Kyle is an avid drone pilot from Philly, and he was lucky enough to get his hands on one of the first issues of the new Skydio 2 drone. Yes, we have all seen the footage online from Skydio employees, but I wanted to hear from a consumer what the drone was all about instead. Yep, Billy gives us all the good and the bad when it comes to the highly touted Skydio 2 drone. You can find Billy on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.
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110. Remote Identification for Drones
31/12/2019 Duration: 28minIf 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! The FAA recently published a proposed rule making document surrounding remote ID for drones. This hot topic has been discussed around the world online since it's release, and we also discussed it during my Monday evening Drone Mastermind meetings. Here is a 30 minute snippet of our discussion...
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109. Medical Package Delivery with Darshan Divakaran
11/12/2019 Duration: 56minIf 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! Darshan Divakaran is the UAS engineer with the North Carolina department of transportation, and has worked on a variety of projects including medical package delivery at WakeMed Cary Hospital. In addition, he is also with Airavat LLC, assisting with public safety mission planning and training. You can connect with Darshan via LinkedIn.
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108. Drones in Agriculture / Public Safety / ParaZero / Education / BVLOS / Drone Swarms
04/12/2019 Duration: 42minIf 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! While at InterDrone earlier this year, I captured a series of attendee and exhibitor interviews from the floor. Today we're going to hear from 6 guests who are going to discuss what they're doing with drones in agriculture, public safety, ParaZero parachutes, education, BVLOS, and drone swarms!
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107. Construction Progress, Residential Real Estate, and Automated Drone Flight with Benny Shirley
28/11/2019 Duration: 48minIf 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! Benny Shirley is a commercial drone pilot from the Chicago area, who is concentrating on construction progress, and residential real estate work. You can find Benny on Instagram, Facebook, and his website.
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106. Drone Training, Podcasting, Multiple Sclerosis and more with Stephen Glaus
20/11/2019 Duration: 33minIf 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! Stephen Glaus is a drone pilot based in Pennsylvania. He has a military drone background, and is now working with Consortiq. Stephen also has his own drone podcast called Unmanned Uncovered! You can find Stephen on LinkedIn.
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105. University Drone Design with Rolando Gonzalez
13/11/2019 Duration: 29minIf 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! Rolando Gonzalez is a Jr. Systems Engineer at the University of Miami, who is designing, building, testing, and flying drones at school and in his personal time. Discussion of flight controllers, spying, and more are just some of the topics that we discuss in this episode. You can find Rolando on Twitter @rolyexpress and LinkedIn.