The Learning Center
Free, practical guides on drones, aerial media, and marketing — written by me, Jandy, a working FAA-certified drone pilot and media producer in Grand Ridge, Florida. No paywall, no email gate, no course to buy at the end. Just the answers I give people anyway, written down properly.
Why this exists
I get the same questions over and over. Business owners ask what drone footage actually costs, whether that guy on Facebook is legal to fly, and why one pilot quotes triple what another does. Aspiring pilots ask how I got certified, how hard the test is, and whether they need a fancy course to pass it.
I used to answer these one at a time — in emails, in parking lots, standing on job sites. The Learning Center is those answers in one place, with the regulations checked against the FAA's own sources instead of secondhand forum posts.
One thing this is not: a blog. There's no feed and no posting schedule — and nothing churned out just to hit a quota. Everything here is organized by topic, kept current, and only exists because somebody asked. If a guide stops being accurate, I fix it or pull it. And since FAA fees and procedures do change, every guide carries a last-verified date and a link to the official FAA source — these are educational guides, not legal advice.
Start here: The Drone Pilot Guide
The first learning path is The Drone Pilot Guide — everything involved in becoming an FAA Part 107 certified commercial drone pilot, starting from zero. Who needs the certificate, what the knowledge test covers, what it costs, and what happens after you pass.
If you only read one thing, make it the flagship: How to Become an FAA Part 107 Drone Pilot. It walks you through the whole process in order — FAA Tracking Number, scheduling the exam, the test itself, the application, your printable temporary certificate, and the permanent card showing up in your mailbox. I went through all of it myself, so the guide includes the parts the official pages skim past.
And if you're on the other side of the transaction — hiring a pilot rather than becoming one — I wrote a separate post over on the blog about hiring a drone pilot in the Florida Panhandle: how to verify a certificate, check insurance, and spot the red flags.
More topics are in the works: FPV filming, real estate photography, vacation rental marketing, and local SEO for small businesses. I write these between client shoots, so I won't promise dates — but that's the plan, and anything I publish here stays free.
Or skip the homework and hire a drone pilot
Some of this you'll read and think: I'd rather just pay someone. Fair — that's literally my job. I fly aerial photography and FPV work across Tallahassee and the North Florida Panhandle — I'm an FAA Part 107 certified drone pilot, insured, and happy to be the shortcut.
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