Podcasts by Commercial Drones FM

#099 - Skydio 2 from 2020-04-06T23:34:15

Skydio CEO, Adam Bry, joins the podcast to discuss the company's newest product, Skydio 2—the world's smartest drone. Bry explains the big differences between R1 ...

#098 - DroneInsurance.com with Dr. Ernest Earon from 2020-02-22T20:12:32

Dr. Ernest Earon is EVP of Artificial Intelligence at REIN, AKA DroneInsurance.com.

#097 - Impossible Aerospace from 2020-01-06T03:00:18

Impossible Aerospace is a US startup that manufactures an all-electric, high-endurance multirotor drone called US-1. The drone platform is marketed mainly towards first responders—law enforcemen...

#096 - PrecisionHawk with CEO, Michael Chasen from 2019-11-14T04:03:28

Ian Smith is joined by Michael Chasen, CEO of PrecisionHawk. The two discuss the latest from PrecisionHawk and the drone industry as a whole.

#095 - Heavy Lift Drones with Parallel Flight Technologies from 2019-10-24T05:07:11

Joshua Resnick is CEO of Parallel Flight Technologies. Parallel Flight Technologies make hybrid powertrain, heavy-lift drones for commercial applications. Joshua is an ex-Tesla engineer who work...

#094 - Multispectral Drone Cameras For Agriculture with MicaSense from 2019-09-15T17:59

Drew Baustian, Business Development Manager at MicaSense, joins Ian to explain the finer points of multispectral drone cameras and imagery for precision agriculture....

#093 - How LAFD Uses Drones from 2019-08-15T04:32:27

LAFD is one of the largest fire departments in the world. Derrick Ward, a firefighter with 30 years of experience, is spearheading the use of drones as Lead UAS P...

#092 - Fly Your Drone Over People (Legally) with ParaZero from 2019-07-26T00:06:55

Hear from Avi Lozowick, VP Policy & Strategy at ParaZero, on how to conduct drone operations over people, legally, with ParaZero's drone parachute systems.

#091 - Airbus Urban Air Mobility from 2019-07-04T05:26:25

Travis Mason is VP and Head of Certification & Regulation, Urban Air Mobility at Airbus. Travis most recently was MC at AUVSI's XPONENTIAL Conference 2019—the largest global gathering of unmanne...

#090 - AirMap with David Hose, CEO from 2019-06-09T22:29:06

AirMap is a California-based startup that has raised $43.6M to help companies coordinate and scale drone operations in ever-changing airspace conditions. David Hose is AirMap's current CEO.

#089 - Indoor Drone Inspections with Patrick Thevoz from 2019-05-22T16:08:33

Indoor drone inspections have become an enormous ROI booster for energy companies who own and operate industrial assets. Patrick Thevoz is CEO of Flyability, a Swiss company who specializes in b...

#088 - Commercial UAV Expo from 2019-05-09T19:01:31

You’re about to hear an in-the-field, or rather, “around-the-pool” compilation of quick-take interviews with people with different backgrounds from 15 drone companies at Listen

#087 - DroneDeploy's Drone Mapping Software with Jono Millin from 2019-03-28T23:33:53

Jono Millin is co-founder and Chief Customer Officer (CCO) at DroneDeploy, a software company that specializes in building solutions for mapping business assets with drones. Jono goes in-depth i...

#086 - Flying Cars&eVTOL Aircraft from 2019-02-20T20:00

Can you imagine yourself buzzing around the urban landscape in a flying car in 2025? Bell—and companies such as Uber and Airbus—really want you to be. Whether you call it a flying taxi, a flying...

#085 - Drone Insurance with Brandon Packman of SkyWatch.AI from 2019-02-01T01:56:10

All about on-demand, risk-based drone insurance, featuring Brandon Packman, Head of Business Development at SkyWatch.AI. SkyWatch.AI is an innovative startup offering customers a new twist on dr...

#084 - Drones At Skyward, A Verizon Company with Mariah Scott from 2019-01-12T00:47:03

Why did Verizon, a $30+ billion telecommunications company, acquire Skyward, a 4-year-old drone startup out of Portland? Mariah Scott, President of Skyward, joins Ian to discuss exactly that—the...

#083 - CNN Air with Greg Agvent from 2018-12-18T15:53:51

Ian is joined by Greg Agvent, the Senior Director of CNN's Aerial Imagery and Reporting Unit—known as CNN Air. When evaluating drones for business, it's easy to think of all the things they can ...

#082 - Kespry Drones&Software with CEO George Mathew from 2018-11-15T07:37:01

Join Kespry's CEO, George Mathew, and host, Ian Smith, for a deep dive into Kespry's enterprise drone hardware and software offerings and outlook on where the industrial use of drones is heading...

#081 - 2018 Drone Market Trends And Analysis with Colin Snow from 2018-10-25T15:48:42

Colin Snow, AKA "The Drone Analyst", joins the podcast for the 3rd year in a row to talk about his company, Skylogic Research's, annual report on the drone industry for 2018. Colin and Ian dive ...

#080 - senseFly's Newest Drones - eBee X and ANAFI Work from 2018-09-20T04:50:44

In September 2018, Parrot Group's senseFly released some exciting new professional drones - the eBee X and the ANAFI Work - along with several new camera options. Jean-Thomas Célette, Chief Stra...

#079 - Expedition: Too Hot For Snot from 2018-08-29T19:00

Experience the story behind the expedition to capture the world's first thermal, radiometric images of humpback whales' blowholes with drones. This is Expedition: Too Hot For Snot.

Host I...

#078 - Kittyhawk, Round 2: $5M Funding For Drone Operations from 2018-08-17T20:08:27

Josh Ziering (JZ) and Josh Pruitt of San Francisco software startup, Kittyhawk, join Ian for a roundtable discussion. The trio chat about recent drone industry news like Section 336, the company...

#077 - A Drone Industry Perspective from Drone Radio Show from 2018-08-02T04:39

Ian Smith, host of Commercial Drones FM podcast, joins Randy Goers' Drone Radio Show as a guest to talk about what has happened in the commercial drone industry over the past 2-years from 2016 t...

#076 - Drone Services with DroneBase CEO, Dan Burton from 2018-07-19T21:54:37

DroneBase is one of the world's largest, professional drone service provider networks. Think of it as "Uber for drone pilots". If you need a drone operator to come accomplish a mission for you, ...

#075 - Drone Industry Review: Q2 2018 from 2018-07-06T22:29:06

The drone industry report for Q2 2018, brought to you by Commercial Drones FM. Get briefed on the most important and newsworthy happenings from the previous quarter in the drone industry—all in ...

#074 - Drone Inspection Software with Ken Falk from 2018-06-21T05:18:04

Drone-based inspections are rocketing in popularity. Businesses are employing drones en masse to help analyze the health of their assets. As onboard sensors and hardware improve, the software th...

#073 - All About Drones from The Drawing Board from 2018-06-07T03:56:42

Hear host Ian Smith answer questions about drones on a podcast instead of always being the one asking them. This week's episode of CDFM is a syndication of Udacity's, The Drawing Board podcast, ...

#072 - Why Ford Is Building Drones with Adi Singh from 2018-05-24T04:02:15

Why is Ford, a legacy automobile company, building drones? Adi Singh, Principal Scientist for UAV Systems at Ford's Silicon Valley office, explains all the ways that Ford is researching and plan...

#071 - Security Drones with Jack Wu, CEO of Nightingale Security from 2018-05-10T17:15:59

Nightingale Security is a robotic aerial security company - not a traditional drone company. But they do make robotic aerial security platforms (drones) and fleet management software that their ...

#070 - Fully Autonomous Drones with Adam Bry, CEO of Skydio from 2018-04-26T01:11:25

Skydio is a very special drone company with a thought-provoking inaugural product. R1, the company's first drone, costs $2,499, is fully autonomous, and it's marketed mainly to hobbyists.

#069 - Drone Industry Review: Q1 2018 from 2018-04-12T04:06:56

The drone industry report for Q1 2018, brought to you by Commercial Drones FM. Get briefed on the most important and newsworthy happenings from the previous quarter in the drone industry—all in ...

#068 - DJI's New Payload SDK with DJI, FLIR, and SLANTRANGE from 2018-03-28T19:00

Today, March 28th, 2018, DJI have announced the availability and launch of their Payload SDK.

This is important news for the drone industry since it now means that different sensors, rega...

#067 - The "Just Drone" Problem with Michael Cohen from 2018-03-15T04:46:42

Michael Cohen is CEO of Industrial Skyworks, a Toronto-based drone inspection software and services company.

Michael teaches Ian about the "just drone" problem, where if you provide indus...

#066 - Drones In A Box with Percepto's Dor Abuhasira from 2018-03-01T07:45:25

What is a drone in a box and why is it important?

A drone-in-a-box is essentially a drone that lives inside of a box (stay with me here) and the box is deployed in a specific area, out in...

#065 - Drone Solution Selling with Topcon's Dave Henderson from 2018-02-15T04:44:23

Commercial Drones FM podcast brings you Dave Henderson, Director of Sales, Geospatial Solutions, for Topcon Positioning systems. This episode covers drone solution selling and an overview of Top...

#064 - AUVSI's Role In The Drone Industry with Brian Wynne from 2018-02-01T04:49:53

Brian Wynne is President and CEO of AUVSI (Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International), an international nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the unmanned syst...

#063 - Drone Industry Review: Q4 2017 from 2018-01-18T15:59:03

The drone industry report for Q4 2017, brought to you by Commercial Drones FM. Get briefed on the most important and newsworthy happenings from the previous quarter in the drone industry. Covere...

#062 - FAA UAS Integration with Major General Hoot Gibson from 2018-01-04T05:10:51

Major General Marke "Hoot" Gibson was Senior Advisor, UAS Integration at the FAA during a critical, two-year period of explosive growth for the drone industry. Very recently, Hoot has moved on f...

#061 - An Exclusive Conversation With DJI On Drone Data Security from 2017-12-21T05:08:32

DJI is, by far, the world's largest drone company. Recently, there have been a slew of controversial reports and conversations about the Chinese drone giant in the media, across social channels,...

#060 - 2017 Drone Market Trends And Analysis with Colin Snow from 2017-12-07T04:17:05

2017 was a banner year for the drone industry. While the drone market as a whole grew, plenty of assumptions were proven false. Colin Snow, The Drone Analyst, is CEO of Skylogic Research, who re...

#059 - Drone Inspections for Enterprise with James Harrison from 2017-11-25T17:03:56

Sky-Futures, founded in 2009, is one of the oldest drone service businesses that exist. The company specializes in providing drone-based inspection services to global industrial enterprises.

#058 - Intel's Drone Ecosystem with Anil Nanduri from 2017-11-08T21:21:07

Intel is a global, multi-billion dollar public company and they have their hands in all areas of technology. As a legacy Silicon Valley juggernaut, they've found that innovation is key to surviv...

#057 - Airbus Aerial with Jesse Kallman from 2017-10-27T00:55:33

Airbus is a global aerospace company who have a wide variety of divisions and assets. Besides their airliners, Airbus also has access to a huge cache of up-to-date, high-resolution satellite ima...

#056 - Drone Industry Review: Q3 2017 from 2017-10-12T04:48:20

Drone Industry Review is a special, quarterly podcast series brought to you by Commercial Drones FM. It briefs listeners on the most important and newsworthy happenings from the previous quarter...

#055 - Tethered Drones with AeroMana from 2017-09-28T06:27:58

AeroMana is a startup that provides tethered drone solutions. A drone that is tethered means that it is attached by wire to the ground, presumably to an external power source, giving the drone p...

#054 - Aerial Drone Cinematography with Brian Streem from 2017-09-14T06:00:55

This episode of Commercial Drones FM focuses on aerial cinematography and the business behind it. Brian Streem is CEO of Aerobo, a nationwide drone service provider who claim to have shot more l...

#053 - Drones In Construction with Todd Wynne from 2017-08-31T03:21:46

Drones are incredibly useful in the construction industry. Giving construction companies the power to get high-resolution, aerial views of their job sites every single day and the ability to inc...

#052 - Cisco's Drone Program with Biren Gandhi from 2017-08-17T03:39:14

This is how a business with nearly $50 billion in revenue views drone technology. Cisco is a publicly-traded network equipment company, but its reach extends much farther beyond just servers and...

#051 - How To Get One Million Dollars For Your Drone Startup Idea from 2017-08-03T06:34:06

A skydiver, a Ph.D., and an incubator director walk into a drone podcast... This is the story of Genius NY, an unmanned systems startup incubator based in Syracuse, New York, and two startups th...

#050 - Oil And Gas Inspection Drones with Cyberhawk's Chris Fleming from 2017-07-20T05:39:52

Cyberhawk, a Scotland-based drone inspection company, has logged over 18,000 flights and accomplished 25 world firsts with drones since their founding in 2008. The nine-year-old company has done...

#049 - Drone Industry Review: Q2 2017 from 2017-07-06T06:20:32

Drone Industry Review is a special, quarterly podcast series brought to you by Commercial Drones FM. It briefs listeners on the most important and newsworthy happenings from the previous quarter...

#048 - What's The Value Of The Drone Industry? with PwC and XYZ Kingfisher APS from 2017-06-22T06:06:09

Ian takes you to Europe where he investigates the inner workings of how a drone industry market report is created. To do that, he heads to Warsaw, Poland to speak with Adam Wiśniewski, Director ...

#047 - Virginia Is For Unmanned Systems Lovers with Karen Jackson from 2017-06-08T05:35:13

Karen Jackson is Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is the first female to hold that position.

Ian asks Karen to explain why Virginia is trying to lead the way ...

#046 - Drones In Energy&Utilities with Mitch Droz from 2017-05-25T04:39:29

Puget Sound Energy (PSE) is Washington's largest private utility. They provide electricity, natural gas, and generation to their territory. Among other assets, PSE manages over 2,000 miles of li...

#045 - 3D Robotics with Daniel McKinnon from 2017-05-18T04:14:55

In April 2017, 3D Robotics raised a $53 million Series D round, bringing total funding to over $178 million. Daniel McKinnon is VP of Product at 3D Robotics and holds a Ph.D. in chemical enginee...

#044 - Drone Swarms For Sustainable Forestry with DroneSeed from 2017-05-04T03:52:22

DroneSeed works with timber companies and non-profits to plant tree seeds, spray them with herbicides, and monitor their growth—all with drones. They're based in Seattle, Washington and are the ...

#043 - Drone Operational Standards Are Your Friend with Harrison Wolf from 2017-04-20T04:08:47

As evidenced by the mature corporate and general aviation industries, the drone industry has an opportunity to flourish with pilots who advocate proper standards. One prerequisite to getting a b...

#042 - Drone Industry Review: Q1 2017 from 2017-04-13T05:14:47

Drone Industry Review is a special podcast series brought to you by Commercial Drones FM. It briefs listeners on the most important and newsworthy happenings from the previous quarter in the dro...

#041 - Bringing Advanced Computer Vision To Industrial Drones with Alex Harmsen from 2017-03-30T05:59:56

Iris Automation is a Y Combinator startup who recently raised $1.5 million in seed funding to bring sense and avoid technology to drones used for industry. Buzz words like computer vision, deep ...

#040 - Drones Falling Out Of The Sky with Forbes' Ryan Mac from 2017-03-22T22:19:49

This is the story behind GoPro's harrowing entry into the global drone market. Just 6 days after GoPro released Karma, their first flagship drone, units began to inexplicably fall out of the sky...

#039 - Thirteen Years in Drones and Beyond with Gretchen West from 2017-03-09T07:41:06

Ian reunites with past drone industry colleague, Gretchen West, who is Senior Advisor for Innovation & Technology at Hogan Lovells and Co-Executive Director of the Commercial Drone Alliance. Gre...

#038 - Overview of the DJI Matrice 200 Drone Platform from 2017-02-28T05:05:01

On February 26th, 2017, DJI announced the new Matrice 200 platform at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Matrice 200 comes in three variants; the M200, M210, and M210 RTK. This new drone pl...

#037 - Drones At Scale with Airware's Buddy Michini from 2017-02-23T07:19:07

Airware is a commercial drone company which was founded in 2011, a couple of years before the drone industry truly began to explode in popularity. They're somewhat notorious for having raised mo...

#036 - Improving Cell Tower Inspection By Using Drones with AT&T's Art Pregler from 2017-02-16T06:40:12

AT&T has 65,000 cell sites around the U.S. which require constant maintenance. Some of these cell sites can be towers that are hundreds of feet high and others can be massive stadiums with hundr...

#035 - A Drone Can Literally Kill You—But Also Save Your Life with PrecisionHawk's Thomas Haun from 2017-02-09T05:27:31

Thomas Haun is Executive Vice President of PrecisionHawk, a drone company in North Carolina with $29 million in total venture funding. Besides developing their own software, making a fixed-wing ...

#034 - Who Truly Owns the Airspace and Why Can't I Shoot Down Drones? with Drone Law Today's Steve Hogan from 2017-02-02T05:47:11

Steve Hogan is an attorney in Florida whose firm specializes in drone law. He's also the host and creator of the Drone Law Today podcast. Ian and Steve sync up over the airwaves to grapple with ...

#033 - Is The Drone Industry In a Decline? Lily's Downfall, Parrot's Layoffs,&The Latest Drone Industry News with Recode's April Glaser from 2017-01-25T23:39:01

Lily Robotics has spectacularly failed and is being sued by the City of San Francisco. CES 2017 is said to have had fewer drone companies than previous years. Parrot laid off a third of its dron...

#032 - Drones For: Good, Search and Rescue, and Enterprise with DJI's Romeo Durscher from 2017-01-19T05:34:34

Romeo Durscher is Director of Education at DJI, the world's largest, most successful drone manufacturer. His job is one of the most fascinating in the world. Romeo acts as global ambassador for ...

#031 - The U.S. Department of the Interior: 500 Million Acres&1,200 Aircraft (Drones Included) with Mark Bathrick from 2017-01-11T23:33:08

With over 500 million acres of land under their management, the Department of the Interior (DOI) is the largest single landowner in the United States. The DOI maintains this land for U.S. citize...

#030 - LiDAR Drones: What Is LiDAR and Why Do I Need It? with Harris Wang from 2017-01-06T01:27:40

LiDAR is an impressive and interesting sensor technology which already powers parts of the driverless car industry. LiDAR sensors can somewhat be thought of as a clever mixture of photogrammetry...

#029 - How To Conduct High Precision Drone Surveys: What To Use and Tips On Improving with Mark Blacklin from 2016-12-28T16:46:43

Topographic data is some of the most sought after information that can be generated by drones. To ultimately derive this data, terrain contours, point clouds, and digital surface models are crea...

#028 - How NOAA Spends A $5 Million Drone Budget with Robbie Hood from 2016-12-22T16:46:37

The United States' NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has many responsibilities but they can essentially be thought of as the federal government's "Environmental Intelligence...

#027 - Raising $20 Million and Creating the World's Largest Drone Data Platform with Mike Winn from 2016-12-15T06:30:47

DroneDeploy is a drone data company who recently raised $20 million to power the further development of their software. Tens of thousands of users from more than 135 countries have collectively ...

#026 - How A Global Enterprise Adopts Drones with Bechtel's Nate Fuller from 2016-12-08T05:01:20

Bechtel is a massive, global company that tackles multi-billion dollar mega-projects. They plan on integrating drones into their operations for use in their infrastructure, mining, oil and gas, ...

#025 - Analyzing the Growing Drone Industry with Colin Snow from 2016-12-01T20:24:27

With so much noise surrounding the drone industry, whose opinion are you supposed to trust? Colin Snow AKA "The Drone Analyst" joins Ian to explain why his team's thoughtful, pragmatic approach ...

#024 - How to Monetize Your Drone in 30 Minutes with Derek Waleko from 2016-11-23T20:42:05

It can be difficult to buy a new drone when the technology is advancing so rapidly. DJI just made two huge product announcements within 6 weeks of each other, which prompted some to cancel one p...

#023 - Drones in Agriculture: How They're Really Being Used with Norm Lamothe from 2016-11-17T05:17:23

There are many misconceptions on how to effectively use drones in agriculture. Norm Lamothe is a farmer, seasoned commercial drone operator, and co-founder at Deveron UAS—a publicly traded, Cana...

#022 - Drone Intelligence, Insight, and Peace of Mind with Joshua Ziering from 2016-11-11T02:10:35

As a classically trained model aircraft pilot, Joshua Ziering didn't easily imagine a future beyond flying chalupa-shaped blimps inside NHL stadiums. So he did what came naturally and built the ...

#021 - De-droning Your Skies with Sebastian Blum from 2016-11-04T01:37:12

There are many ways that drones benefit society—but unfortunately, with the rise of drones comes the rise of malicious activity. Dedrone is a company which offers an automatic, anti-drone soluti...

#020 - Drone Compliance is Serious For Business with Eric Kubicka from 2016-10-27T01:24:47

Think you're a serious drone operator? Then you better take compliance seriously too. Eric Kubicka is a founding partner of DroneLogbook, software for flight tracking, logging, and drone complia...

#019 - Breaking Down the Crash of 3D Robotics with Forbes' Ryan Mac from 2016-10-20T02:00:18

For Forbes, Ryan Mac has written some of the drone industry's seminal articles—covering DJI's Frank Wang, Parrot's Henri Seydoux, and now, Chris Anderson in "The Crash Of 3D Robotics, North Amer...

#018 - Drones in Mining with Emmanuel de Maistre from 2016-10-12T03:35:22

Redbird, a French drone software company, was recently purchased by Airware, an American drone software company. A few weeks before the sale was made public, Ian and Emmanuel, Redbird's then-CEO...

#017 - Inside Drone News with Austin Smith from 2016-10-06T04:55:45

Ian is joined by Austin Smith, GM of Inside.com, a startup which focuses on tech newsletters. Inside.com produces the Inside Drones newsletter, a thoughtfully curated, twice-weekly digest of the...

#016 - The DJI Mavic Pro: A Viable Commercial Drone Platform from 2016-09-27T23:31:28

DJI has announced their Mavic Pro drone, the smallest and most powerful drone they've ever created. The new Mavic Pro drone platform has specs and pricing that best the popular Phantom 4 and new...

#015 - GoPro vs. DJI: Who's Goliath? from 2016-09-21T06:50:45

Publicly traded GoPro have officially revealed the hotly anticipated Karma drone. Incidentally, this first effort into the industry directly competes with the largely dominant DJI, a private com...

#014 - A Bitcoin-based Drone Delivery Network and the Hover Drone App with Dan Held from 2016-09-16T05:10:34

There's a favorable exchange rate when transitioning from bitcoin to drones, according to Dan Held, the co-founder of Hover—a mobile app for drone pilots that enhances situational awareness. Ian...

#013 - Making Maps with Drones: An Overview from 2016-09-07T21:38:16

Drone mapping can be a game changer for your business. Learn about why you should be making maps with drones and how to do it successfully. What kind of drone and software do I need? What does i...

#012 - Fixed-Wing, BVLOS Drones for Industry with Benjamin Benharrosh from 2016-08-31T03:23:05

Co-founder Benjamin Benharrosh, lets us in on the evolution of Delair-Tech—the first company in the world to achieve BVLOS certification for their fixed-wing drones. Since starting in 2011, the ...

#011 - Drone Remote Sensing for Crop Insurance with Cassidy Rankine from 2016-08-24T02:09:40

Drones are becoming popular among farmers for analyzing crop health. Cassidy Rankine, PhD and co-founder of Skymatics, proposes another scenario: using drones for crop insurance. Ian and Cassidy...

#010 - Constructing a National Drone Operator Network with Andrew Dennison from 2016-08-19T05:12:10

Andrew Dennison, COO of LIFT Technologies, recounts his journey into the drone industry. Ian and Andrew cover topics from real-world construction and insurance case studies, the drone deliverabl...

#009 - Solving the Automated Drone Workflow Challenge with Lucas Van Oostrum from 2016-08-11T04:44

Lucas Van Oostrum is co-founder of Delft Aerial Robotics as well as Aerialtronics. The Flying Dutchman joins Ian and tells entrepreneurial tales of starting up a high-end drone manufacturing com...

#008 - Drones for Whale Snot, Education, and... Women? with Sally French, The Drone Girl from 2016-08-02T02:53:52

Sally French (aka The Drone Girl) sits down with Ian to discuss important issues in the drone industry. From teaching how to use drones in schools, whale snot, drone industry projections, and th...

#007 - Dissecting Drone Industry News with Ben Popper of The Verge from 2016-07-28T05:25:05

For The Verge, Ben Popper has reviewed every one of the most important drones of the past few years. Ian and Ben dissect the latest news from the drone industry including 3DR's layoffs, DJI's do...

#006 - FAA Part 107 Test Prep and Study Guide for Drone Pilots from 2016-07-24T18:22:10

Test prep and study guide for the FAA's Part 107 knowledge test for commercial drone pilots. Ian reviews the entire 35 questions—and answers—that he was administered during the online test (for ...

#005 - Making Drone Software with Nicholas Pilkington from 2016-07-20T06:07:05

Ian is joined by DroneDeploy's CTO, Nicholas Pilkington, who guides listeners down the rabbit hole of aerial ones and zeroes; revealing secrets from the extremely important—yet unfortunately mys...

#004 - Solar Powered Drones&Esri GIS with Devon Humphrey from 2016-07-14T05:04:32

Ian chats with Devon Humphrey, CEO of Flightline Geographics out of Austin, at the 2016 Esri User Conference in San Diego to cover the announcement of the new AeroHawk solar powered drone and di...

#003 - How To Get a FAA 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card from 2016-07-10T17:18:50

Attention commercial drone pilots: learn from Ian how to get access to a little-known FAA program which essentially grants you a "Get Out of Jail Free" card that can be used to help you get out ...

#002 - Drone Venture Capital with Kevin Spain from 2016-07-06T06:10:56

Ian sits down with Kevin Spain of Emergence Capital where they chat about venture capital trends in the drone space, the future of the commercial drone industry, and tips on what venture capital...

#001 - The First Episode from 2016-06-21T04:38:54

This is the first episode of CommercialDrones.FM - Learn about the host, Ian Smith, his experience with drones, helicopters, aviation, and the plans for the show moving forward. The Commercial D...