The hard part was never the flying.
What nearly cost me was on the ground. I put the whole thing into one list: sixteen checks across five phases. It's free, and I'll send it to you.
Sixteen checks. Five phases.
Tap a phase. This is the shape of the list and the reason each line is on it.
Every line on it, a job put there.
Some of them cost me money. I learned the controller one the expensive way, and I learned the corner one on a landing I'd rather not describe.
If you're coming to this from photo and video work, the flying is the part you already have. It's everything around it that changes.
Want the printable list?
Sixteen checks, five phases, one page. I send it myself, and the first email doesn't sell you anything.
Send me the checklistYou'll get a quick email to confirm. Click it and the list is yours. No spam, and you can leave whenever you want.
Three ways I can help.
All of them live, one on one. You're talking to me the whole time.
That's me. I run every one of these myself.
Your own checklist, for your aircraft.
- We build your list together, around the aircraft you actually fly. Not a copy of mine.
- A plan for your next working day: what to read before you leave, where to start, how to handle the wind you'll get.
- If you fly something I don't, we fill the brand section from your manufacturer's manual. I won't invent it.
- A follow-up two weeks later, once you've used it on a real job.
Founder pricing while I run the first ones. Write to me and I'll tell you where it stands.
[PENDIENTE: precio y link de Calendly de la sesión de seguridad]
Putting a number on the job.
One underpriced building costs more than this session.
- We build the way you'll quote from here on, around your aircraft, your city and your costs. Your method, not a copy of mine.
- Your cost-per-day sheet, ready to fill in.
- A quote template you can reuse.
- What to say when they tell you it's expensive, and how to stop dropping your price by reflex.
- You send me your next quote before it goes out, and we go through it together.
Paid when you book. I take one a month, so there's one opening at a time.
Next opening: [PENDIENTE: mes]
If you don't leave with a method you can use on your next quote, I'll refund you.
[PENDIENTE: política de cancelación, por ejemplo reprogramar con 48 h de aviso]
Finding the thing only your operation has.
- I go through your account and your work before we talk, so the hour doesn't go on context.
- We find the thing in your operation that nobody else can film, because it came out of your own work.
- What to shoot, what to say, and what to stop posting.
- The recording afterwards, plus email follow-up on whatever we don't finish.
If you finish the hour without one concrete thing to change, you get a second call at no charge.
What operators say after the call.
What I don't sell.
Worth saying out loud, so nobody books expecting the wrong thing.
I'm Gus.
I fly enterprise drones in Ontario, Canada. Most of the season I'm on facade work, on an M400. The rest of the time I'm filming, because I like it.
I started posting to keep notes in public. People write to me from all over the world now, and the same questions kept coming back often enough that I sat down and wrote the answers properly.
When something doesn't behave the way the manual says, I don't argue with it. I go and measure it. That's slower, and it's why the numbers I work from are mine.
I answer my own messages. If you write, you're talking to me.