Being able to fly a drone and take to the skies is a fantastic opportunity and also a huge responsibility. You can definitely fly a drone around and capture some fantastic footage and images for a hobby, but if you want to take it to the next level, you have to get a pilots license. If you want to be able to monetize your footage and images, or if you want to be able to go beyond recreational limits, you have to get officially certified by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration). Other potential jobs include land surveying, real estate, and tower inspecting. A whole new realm of job opportunities await for those who get their part 107 sUAS license.

When we started our trek across the USA, I should have anticipated that we would see things that our phone wouldn’t be able to accurately capture. Naively, I thought the technology I carried in my pocket would be enough to convey the memories and the emotions the places we visited evoked. It wasn’t until reaching the mountains of the midwest that I started to find that to be untrue. It was all too much, from the grandiose peaks of Colorado, to the red rock cliffs of Utah, down through the deserts and canyons of Nevada and Arizona. We found our phones storage filling up quick and discovered that it never quite captured the beauty of these sights. But it was on the ferry route to Alaska, that things came to a point where I realized we had to upgrade, or we would spend time regretting our mistake…