Recent content by Stuart Covey

Hey all! So I'm looking for insurance recommendations. For the amount of flying I do, Verifly doesn't cut it (although it's great as a backup for higher coverage). I have been with Aerial Pak by Hill and Usher for the last year, but they are changing the insurance writer for the proposal. So I...

I completely agree, as commercial pilots working in a professional world, you should be following the rules and not trying to find ways around them. You’ll get more respect as a drone pilot, and your clients will see it as well. If you want a successful business you need to be professional...

I have flown indoors on multiple occasions with my current I2 and previous I1. It’s a whole lot easier with the newer drones that have tripod mode. I would still recommend practicing flying in atti mode without gps and getting comfortable with that before taking on an indoor job. Most buildings...

Batteries are notoriously replicated by little companies all over the place. It’s very hard to tell whether they’re real or not from the outside, especially from just an online listing. Like BigA107 said, if it fails, it falls. So I highly recommend playing it’s safe and only buying from DJI or...

I have a Facebook page, but don’t actively work on it. I will post from time to time, but I haven’t got a single lead from it in the one a half years I’ve been in business. Personally a well built website will bring in much more business than FB. Now Instagram I can speak a little more highly...

DronePilotGroundSchool.com is what I used. Mind you I was studying before the rules had actually went into effect, so the choices where limited. But that being said I loved Drone Pilot Ground School. It walked through everything in way that I could actually understand, and not just “know the...

Hey all, I’m Stuart Covey from Rogers, Arkansas. I got my Part 107 two days after the rules went into effect, and I have been flying ever since with my business Vantage Point Video (http://vantagepoint.video). I actually started building and flying RC airplanes back in 2010 and then got into...