The Drone Trainer Podcast

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! Kyle Ventler is flying out of the Seattle area, flying construction sites to capture progression footage. He has been taking standard photos and videos of construction sites, and has now come up with a new technique to count anchor bolts at construction sites. He's developed this technique based on a drone mapping combination of Drone Deploy and Agremo. Yes, Agremo is marketed as an agricultural product, however Kyle has found a way to utilize it in his construction drone work. Very cool and innovative!

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 Brisendine has developed an augmented reality solution for drones, that he envisions will be used heavily in public safety response. He has a connection with emergency management in Paris Tennessee, which has allowed him to access useful data to utilize in his app. There is 911 information, home values, colour of houses, and more, but the real value comes in his ability to create overlays. Roads, dropping pins, and damage assessments can be done in real time using Chris' augmented reality solution.

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! Merr Watson was born in the Philippines and moved to Perth about 8 years ago. She is a content creator, who is using her drone to capture stunning photos and videos at the beach. Merr was approached by Mike at Riptide Prints who offered her the opportunity to easily sell her prints online. Riptide takes care of all the printing, framing, and shipping, while still providing Merr the majority of the profit. Think she is a fan of that? YOU BET!

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! Ryan Hargraves has been a photographer for 10 years, and has now added drones to his arsenal. He takes a lot of real estate photos, and adding the drone to his business has been very financially beneficial to his business. Ryan owns the DJI Mavic, Inspire 1, and Phantom 4 Pro, and discusses why he chooses one over the other based on the type of job that he's doing. Since he has a few smaller capable units, you're probably not going to be surprised to hear why his Inspire 1 is mostly sitting around collecting dust.

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! Evan Garmon is an insurance agent based in Indiana, servicing drone pilots from all across the United States. Evan has been working in the insurance industry since 2013, and started to specialize in drone insurance in 2015 with Harpenau Insurance. His description on their website says that Evan loves drones, reading, fitness, and pumpkin carving. Rest assured, we're only going to talk about the first point in this interview ;) Evan and I discuss trends in the drone insurance industry, as well as the brand of drones that he's insuring. I'm sure that most of you aren't going to be surprised when you hear which drone company is taking 95% of his business, but may be surprised about the other 5%. We also chat about what different kinds of coverages mean for you, and the type and frequency of claims that he has had. 

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! Ella McKendrick is a recreational drone pilot who is also using her drone to promote her lifestyle brand. Listen in as she discuss her editing process, Instagram advertising strategies, and why she is shooting JPG instead of RAW photos! When speaking about Instagram ads, Ella gives us tips on how to best target your ads so that you're not just throwing your money into the wind. Strategies discussed include age, gender, and location targeting based on your desired audience. If you're already promoting your drone business via Instagram or Facebook ads, how's it going? Do you find that you're getting the desired results from it? Have you thought about utilizing brand ambassadors? If you're not sure what that is, listen in as Ella discusses how she uses brand ambassadors, and how much it costs to have someone else promote her product.

Sinuhe Montoya is a drone pilot who saw an opportunity to use his drone to help get solar panels installed. How does that happen? Well, he actually doesn't invite any of the installers with him, but instead he runs everything through his business DroneQuote. How does that work? Well without giving it all away, he saw a need to eliminate painful in home solar panel sales calls by pre-shooting with his drone. Once a home has been shot, he sends the opportunity out to other installers who then bid on the job! Pretty awesome idea, isn't it?

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! Who else was excited with the announcement and immediate release of the DJI Mavic 2 series drones! We all knew it was coming, but now that it's finally here we can get some real world reviews of the new series as they've already started landing in people's hands around the world. Elijah Browning, a commercial drone pilot from Michigan was one of the lucky ones to get his hands on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro right away after release, and he's been awesome enough to hop on the show and share his thoughts on this new drone!

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! The tables have turned a bit in this episode, in that I'm not the host but rather the guest as I have a chat with Max and David over at The UAV Digest! The UAV Digest is a great podcast for finding out the latest industry news, and I wanted to share it with all of you! Have a listen as I'm on the other side of the table, discussing trends in the UAV industry, as well as our predictions for the future. I really think that you're going to enjoy the episode, so when you're finished listening be sure to subscribe to both this podcast, The Drone Trainer, as well as The UAV Digest!

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! Halil Berisha is a drone photographer based in Belgium, who is looking to turn commercial. In this episode, Halil discusses the difference in drone licensing in Belgium, and why he is looking to obtain his license in a neighbouring country instead.

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! Paula Sullivan is in the fortunate position to be able to fly under contract for NBC news in the Boston and Connecticut areas! Listen in as she discusses how she flies her gigs, and also how she connected with her company, Photo Flight Aerial Media!

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 Holmes has been working in the drone industry for about a year now, and has been really putting his nose down over the past 4 months. So far he's been working in real estate, shooting top down photos of his client's properties, and is looking at getting into mapping and modelling in the near future.

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 Summer caught my eye as he's shooting a lot of golf courses, and I wanted to find out how he's making his connections and shooting all his footage. When you listen to this episode, you'll hear that he has a lot of connections in the industry due to his prior work, however he also goes over how to develop new business within the golf industry! Scott started off flying the DJI Phantom 3 4K, but has now made the move to the DJI Phantom 4 Pro and Inspire 2 models. Why the change? Scott goes into detail to talk about the differences between WiFi connected drones such as the P34K, and the benefits you get from Lightbridge connected drones like the P4P and I2.

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! Joshua Foo is an Australian drone pilot, based in Melbourne. He is currently flying a DJI Mavic Air, after loosing his DJI Mavic Pro. The full story on that loss is available by listening to the show. Josh has a massive instagram following, and in this episode he discusses how he grew to over 27,000 followers, and the keys to success. I know that instagram is a very popular platform for many drone pilots, so this is some juicy info that you're not going to want to miss!

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! Federico Barra is an Italian surgeon working at the Milan Hospital, who is also a photo enthusiast in his spare time. Checking out his gallery, you can see that he's a master of both ground based photography and aerial drone photography. Fede is flying the Mavic Pro, as is shooting a Sony mirrorless camera for his ground based shots. He loves the stability of the Mavic Pro in the wind, as well as the low light capabilities of the Sony mirrorless cameras when he's not flying his drone.

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! I came across Sandrine Hecq's work on Instagram a few months ago, and absolutely love her photographic drone style! Sandrine is based in Perth, Australia, however she's one of the lucky ones that gets to travel the world and bring her drone with her along the way! Speaking of traveling wth your drone, Sandrine has some tips for how to fly with your drone and best way to check or take it as carryon luggage.

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! On this week's show I have a special guest, Randy Goers from the Drone Radio Show podcast! Randy has been podcasting and promoting the drone industry for over 3 years now, and I wanted to introduce his awesome podcast to you as well. Why not share the love of the drone podcast world, by having another awesome advocate on the show, right?

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! Mitchell Clarke is another awesome drone pilot that I came across on Instagram a while back, and have been dying to have on the show. If you check out his gallery, you'll see that he has a combo of some awesome photography skills combined with access to some world class locations! As we chat about drone photography, we get into shooting AEB (auto exposure bracketing) mode, and Mitchell's workflow after the shoot. A quick preview is that he's a big fan of Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop, and impressively doesn't use any of his own presets! He works through a photo from start to finish until it looks right, and will only break down and use a preset if he's completely strapped for time. Check out this beach shot for an example of his edits.

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! Alexander Cervin is a drone pilot from Helsingborg, Sweden, who operates the Mavic Pro and Inspire 1 drones. Even though the Inspire 1 is an awesome machine, Alexander's go to drone is the Mavic Pro simply due to it's excellent portability. Even though he likes to fly the smaller drones, Sweden's drone rules are fairly relaxed and you can fly something up to 7kg without a permit! In this episode we chat about creating drone maps, for use in real estate and construction progress, as well as his favourite Polarpro filters. Alex is also working on building his own drone! He has an engineering background, so I asked him if designing and building a drone would be something that anyone could accomplish. If you want the answer to that question, you're going to have to listen in!

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! Thomas Greer is currently flying the Mavic Pro as his main machine, after starting out with the Phantom 3 Pro. He's flying in Portland, capturing images of the bridges, river, downtown buildings, stadiums, etc... all while dodging beers being thrown at him by homeless people! Yes, I'm serious! Listen in to the episode to hear that ridiculous story of a drone pilot dodging a flying beer!