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Build Flight Skills
Build Flight Skills
Beginners: Everyone starts life as a drone pilot as a beginner. Getting legal is important. This session will get you legal. Setting up your drone/controller correctly makes your drone easier to fly and safer. This session will set you up for success.
Each time you fly, there are critical settings that will mostly prevent harm and mitigate its impact if things go wrong. This session will save you anxiety and improve your confidence as a pilot.
Duration: 1 hour
Build Flight Skills
Build Flight Skills
Build Flight Skills
Beginners: Once you're set up for success, it's time to practice the drone maneuvers you'll use every day. Learn how to control the flight of your drone. Learn to point its camera at your subject. Learn to fly 1, 2, 3, and 4-axis cinamtographic flight maneuvers that will build your skills and your demo reel. Learn advanced techniques like waypoint flight and follow-me. It's one thing to read about or YouTube these skills, but it's better to build skills quickly & confidently with coaching.
Duration: 2-3 hours
Fly Like A Pro
Build Flight Skills
Fly Like A Pro
Beginners - Advanced Pilots: No matter your skill level, we'll fly in fun places where you can truly master your drone and maximize your video and still photography skills. We'll travel short distances to great shooting locations and shoot great subjects in the wild. These locations are carefully curated to minimize flight hazards, and practice real world skills, like flying in controlled airspace with FAA LAANC approval. This is where coaching makes all the difference in the world.
Duration: Location Dependent ~ 3- 8 hours
Coaching for Success
Charles Porter
Charles Porter
Charles Porter
Chuck is a private (single engine land) pilot and an FAA 14 CFR Part 107 commercial drone pilot. He is an internationally recognized award-winning photographer.
As a commercial photographer, he specializes in travel, landscape, adventure travel, architecture, and astro-photography.
He is a workshop instructor at the Photographic Center No
Chuck is a private (single engine land) pilot and an FAA 14 CFR Part 107 commercial drone pilot. He is an internationally recognized award-winning photographer.
As a commercial photographer, he specializes in travel, landscape, adventure travel, architecture, and astro-photography.
He is a workshop instructor at the Photographic Center Northwest teaching Drone Photography Workshops.
He is an experienced coach to aspiring drone pilots.
He's taught & lectured at the graduate and undergraduate level at University of Washington, Gonzaga University (Spokane and Florence, Italy), and at Seattle University.
He's been published in BMW Owners News magazine, Alaska Airlines in-flight magazine, books, and client websites. An engaging guide for your adventure.
Mark Erskine
Charles Porter
Charles Porter
Mark is private (single engine land) pilot and an FAA 14 CFR Part 107 commercial drone pilot. He is an Emmy award-winning writer, producer and videographer.
His career spans broadcast TV, corporate media and communications among the Fortune 100. He's an engaging guide.
He is a workshop instructor at the Photographic Center Northwest teachi
Mark is private (single engine land) pilot and an FAA 14 CFR Part 107 commercial drone pilot. He is an Emmy award-winning writer, producer and videographer.
His career spans broadcast TV, corporate media and communications among the Fortune 100. He's an engaging guide.
He is a workshop instructor at the Photographic Center Northwest teaching Drone Photography Workshops.
He is an experienced coach to aspiring drone pilots.
He has guest lectured at University of Washington, and Boston University. He's cinima trained by Vilmos Zsigmond at the famed Maine Media Workshops.
He recently returned from a year-long adventure sailing and droning the Caribbean and is an avid motorcyclist and commercial drone pilot.