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Well, hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history.
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In fact, it's about today today. It is October the eighth,
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now today my co host. Yeah, he's pretty much just
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a study. He graduated from the Naval Academy in Napolis.
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Then he became a Marine Corps officer, served four combat
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tours over in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. Then he
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brought all that experience back home, and now he's doing
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some really cool thing in the private sector. David, why
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don't you go ahead introduce yourself.
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Hey, it's great to be here. I always love talking
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about history, and you know, so you mentioned a little
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of my history with my time in the Marine Corps.
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After I left the Marine Corps, I did a bunch
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of stuff in corporate America and then kind of stumbled
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into drones when they were starting to become a little
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more than toys back and yeah, probably like twenty fourteen,
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twenty fifteen, and so with the encouragement of my wife
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at the time, I started a drone service company, which
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is Vigilanti Drones and Consulting, and then you know, we
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provide services like mapping and photography and do some search
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and rescue operations. With that company, and then a few
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years later I became a part owner of Altitude University,
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which is an online education platform that teaches people everything
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they need to know to become a commercial drone pilot
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and pass the FA's Part one of seven exam. And
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then more recently, with some of my business partners, we
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created a company called High Stakes University, which takes all
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of that that we learned in the other two companies
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and applies it to helping law enforcement and security personnel
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maximize the use of drone technology in their operations. So
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along the way, I started also writing for the industry.
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So I've been very fortunate to have several hundred articles
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published within the drone space, and that's kind of where
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I am. So I'm all things drones these days now.
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Just in the last ten years or so that you've
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been doing, how much has the technology drones just increased?
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Oh, it's exploded. You know, it really went from when
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I first started playing around the drones in the you know,
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early like twenty ten timeframe. You know, they were little
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toys that dating myself, a little bit you could pick
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up at radio shack, you know. But now they're you know,
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they can do so many things across many different industries,
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and you know, the technology is just amazing. I mean
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everything from finding lost people to inspecting you know, pipelines
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and electric grids, to you know, doing all kinds of
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amazing things in cinematography. It's just a very versatile technology
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that is just continuing to become more and more. You know,
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the adaptation of it is just you know, extremely extremely
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beneficial to society and a lot of entities are starting
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to pick up on that. So, yeah, it is just exploded.
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Well, they're just so I mean that's they're just so convenient.
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I mean it from search and rescue, even inspecting your gutters,
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I mean after a hailstorm or something, inspecting your riv
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and the farmers out there doing their fence lines, and
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I mean they're just like the wonder tool basically this
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the century.
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Yeah, and it's it's when you make the comparison. You know,
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like any tool, it's not the ideal solution for every
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single application, but there are so many things that drones
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can do that just the cost difference and the efficiency
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is just night and day. You know, when you look
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at something like aerial photography or cinematography, you know, it
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used to be that you had to pay, you know,
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five thousand dollars to have a helicopter go out there
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and fly. Now you pay some you know commercial drone
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pilot one hundred and fifty bucks an hour to fly
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their drone. They you know, can capture you know, pretty
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much the same type of footage that you need. And
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it's just you know, really really the economy scale, all
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the different aspects that it could be applied to. It's
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just amazing.
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It's pretty neat. Just north of Denver, just three days ago,
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north of Denver, the suburb up there, they were getting
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their their drone system set up and everything like this,
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and they were demonstrating kind of it's probably teaching him
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and all that kind of stuff. Now while they were
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actually installing their grown system, they were able to stop,
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go ahead and get an armed robber and with their
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throwing and tracking the Wow. So it was like while
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they were setting it up, they actually already got rewards
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for it.
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Wow. That is really really cool. Yeah, it's it's it's
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amazing that the lives that have been saved by it
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and the money saved and you know everything that it's
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helped out with that. So yeah, I think it's going
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to continue to be you know, a really really important
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technology that becomes more and more useful to you know,
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societies across the world.
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Do you ever just go fly for the fun of it?
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You know, very rarely, just because I fly so much
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for work, so it's it's kind of lost some of
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the fun aspect of it in that sense. But I
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do enjoy every time I get to go out there
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and fly.
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So the week Warriors, do you have like a starter
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drone that you think that you could recommend that maybe
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this will like basically teach you the fundamentals.
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Yeah. Dji is like the main company for you know,
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consumer drones. They have probably seventy percent of the market globally,
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and I would say they just came out with a
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mini five pro drone that's you know, probably I don't
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know exactly what it is, but it's it's probably under
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one thousand dollars and that's a great drone to you know,
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just kind of mess around with. You can get some
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of their older mini drones that are you know, four
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hundred bucks or around that range, and that's a great
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level to start at if you're looking at, you know,
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be able to have a decent drone with a decent
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amount of flight time, that's got a pretty good camera
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on it. I'd recommend starting there.
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Well, that's cool, it sounds fun. Hey, do you know
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what we're going to celebrate today?
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I think so. I think it's a National day for
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fluffer nutters.
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That's right. Yeah, I don't think it's a year in California.
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I'm in Collin, Adda. I don't think it's something that
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we're big on. It is National fluffer notre Day. Yeah,
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I think you had to grow up at Geese to
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enjoy fluffernetter. Do you know what it is?
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You know, I really don't. I haven't done much with
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fluffer nutters in my career.
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Well, it was created in Somerville, Massachusetts in nineteen seventeen. Basically,
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it's whipped marshmallows. So instead of putting jelly on your
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peanut butter and jelly, yeah, they put peanut butter and
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fluffer nutter. It's so too good. But I know, I
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guess we get a chance to try some fluff for
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nttter today. You know, it might become a fluffernetter for nettic.
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Who knows, maybe that's your thing. But we can also
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celerate Parrogi's if you.
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Like those, I love those. I'm half Polish, so I'm
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all about those me too.
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All right, let's going on in entertainment on October eighth,
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that's back in the nineteen seventy nine number one album
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was in Through the Outdoor by Led Zeppelin. Robert John
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had the number one song with Sad Eyes scenes DG. Shepherd.
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He had the number one country song with Last Cheeters
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Waltz two two.
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Someone's el.
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The ball games all over ash No, She's lost.
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As the player, please the list, t she Wo. What
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kind of music you into?
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I like everything you know. I'm I'm a fan of
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pretty much all Lately, I've been listening to a lot
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of metal and rock, but I'm a fan of everything.
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How about you?
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I'm pretty much I'm not too happy about the Super
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Bowl halftime show. Thought, are you have bad Bunny? Or
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what is it bad Bunny?
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I'm a little behind on some of the newer stuff,
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but yeah, I'm I'm a fan of almost everything.
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Yeah, I'm pretty mean too. I mean yeah, I've go
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eighties airband to country music. It's fine. The number one
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book was The number one book was A Dead Zone
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by Stephen King top movie was ten Dadley Mahr. He
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is having a midlife crisis and then he becomes totally
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infatuated with Bo Derek, but she's down on her honeymoon
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in Mexico. Okay, now we're going to talk about how
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you how you teach him with your university is on that.
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But what's the importance of actually having a drone license?
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Well, you know, there's there's a lot of rules when
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you're flying around in the airspace. So obviously there's a
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lot of crewd aircraft flying around at all times, you know,
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especially when you're in more populated areas with airports and stuff.
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So you know, when you're taking that drone up there,
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it may seem like it's you know, a little tiny
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toy to some people or whatnot, but that becomes danger
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to other, you know, people flying around in the airspace.
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So the importance of getting a license is being able
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to understand all the rules and regulations and things that
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you have to consider when you're you know, putting that
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drone up in the sky. So in the same way
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that we require people to get a driver's license so
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they can understand the rules of the road and be
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safe for other you know, motorists in themselves. That's why
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you need a license, you know, so that when you
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start taking off from the ground, you're not going to
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hit somebody else in the air or do something that
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will you know, harm yourself. So the FAA has you know,
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designed that test to really show that you have a
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you know, basic understanding of how to operate safely within
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the national airspace.
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And you can get in a lot of trouble too.
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You can get in a lot of trouble. Yeah, there
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are there are several people who have paid massive fines
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for violating the rule rules. And you know then there's
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also the danger of hitting other aircraft. So you know
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a number of years ago there was a drone that
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hit into a black Hawk helicopter. Thankfully nobody was injured
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in that particular accident, but yeah, it is it is
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very easy for a drone to you know, hit into
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an aircraft that's flying around. So for that reason, you know,
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you definitely need to know what you're doing. It's it's
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something to take serious, just like you would getting behind
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the wheel of a car.
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Okay, And they can always learn that going which where
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would you say to go? Should they go to high
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stakes or Altitude.
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Yeah, Altitude is the best place to start for somebody
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who's looking at becoming a commercial drone pilot. So Alttude
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University has a online course that's self paced. You know,
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you buy the license for it, it's a lifetime license,
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and you just take your time going through our videos
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and you know there's quizites and flashcards and graded exams
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and everything that really show you if you're ready to
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take the tests. And we have had probably close to
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twenty thousand students go through the course at this point,
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and our success rate for passing the FA's exam on
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the first try is a little over ninety nine percent.
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So it's really only like, you know, a very very
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small portion of people that maybe get like the test,
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stay jitters or something that don't pass. But the material
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is solid, and you know, our students pretty quickly can
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go through it. You know, we've had some that spend
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a whole weekend finishing the course and then most people,
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if you do about an hour day, you can finish
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it in two to three weeks and be ready to
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take that exam.
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That sounds like a good deal. And then plus I
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remember the first time I was given a drone for Christmas,
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you know, like one of those and you grab it
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and I think you just like a video game. I'm
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just going to take it out and fly it. Then
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I'm looking at what is it prawl or crawl and
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all this kind of stuff. I don't know.
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Maybe of these.
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Things are yeah.
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And you know what's interesting is is many other countries
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require you to actually fly a drone as part of
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a test. The FA doesn't, So you could technically pass
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the FA's exam to be a licensed a commercial drone
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pilot having never flown a drone. So it's a little
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weird that, you know, they don't do that. I think
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it would probably be a good idea if they did.
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But thankfully there's lots of platforms, Like you know, for
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Altitude University, we have a really good YouTube channel that
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I think we're at probably close to thirty two thousand
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subscribers for the channel at this point, and we have
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a lot of content on it that'll show you how
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to learn to fly a drone, so that you're able