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134. Drone Lawyer Q&A with Grant Guillot
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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…
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TDT 133 - Spraying Drones for Agriculture & Covid-19 Response in Botswana with Fanie Kooij
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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 additio…
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TDT 132 - Pro Video Production and Drones with Joe Serkoch
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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 th…
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TDT 131 - Journalism and Commercial Flight with The Drone Girl, Sally French
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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 F…
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TDT 130 - Drone Search & Rescue, Training, Mapping, NASCAR and more with Michael Hill
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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 uti…
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TDT 129 - Selling Stock Drone Footage via Getty Images, Shutterstock, and more with Steve Diddle
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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 ever…
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TDT 127 - Drones in Real Estate and YouTube Success with OriginaldoBo (Ken Dono)
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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 a…
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TDT 126 - Coastal Shoreline Mapping with Benjamin Ritt
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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…
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TDT 125 - A commercial drone business journey with Sydney Lisignoli
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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 me…
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TDT 124 - BVLOS Drone Flight with Melissa Schiele
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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 And yes, this drone podcast is an offshoot of m…
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TDT 123 - North Carolina State University Chief of Staff and Drone Pilot, Justine Hollingshead
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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 gra…
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TDT 122 - Drones in Construction with Corey Lee Knight
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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! …
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TDT 121 - Silky Smooth Indoor Drone Videos and more with Bram De Ryck
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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 dron…
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TDT 120 - Embry-Riddle Educated Professional Drone Pilot, Tyler Jackson
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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 …
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TDT 119 - Drone LiDAR for photogrammetry, mapping, and inspections with Vashaun Henderson
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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 …
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TDT 118 - Drones and a full time content creator, with Stephanie Alexis
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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…
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TDT 117 - Roof and Telecom Tower Drone Mapping and Modelling with Danny Elassad
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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, …
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TDT 116 - Flock Management with Dan Swafford
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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 And yes, this drone podcast is an offshoot of my Drone Impact program. If you're interest…
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TDT 115 - Tourism and Agricultural Drone Photography with Fiona Lake
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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. And yes, this drone podcast is an offshoot of my Drone Impact program. I…
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TDT 114 - Drone Swarm Light Shows with Hitomi Uematsu
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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. And yes, thi…
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TDT 113 - Drone Mapping and Precision Agriculture with Ryan Johnson
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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 websit…
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TDT 112 - How to pass your FAA Part 107 with Alan Perlman
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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 du…
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 hig…
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TDT 110 - Remote Identification for Drones
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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... And yes, this drone podcast is an offshoot of my Dron…
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TDT 109 - Medical Package Delivery with Darshan Divakaran
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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. And yes, thi…
