Welcome to Historic Forrest. And today I'm going to talk to you about how I got my FAA
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems License or what I just call my drone license with the FAA,
and I did this with only free training and this is how I did it.
I went to the Federal Register. The Federal Register has the laws that govern drone piloting.
And I printed out the actual part 107 law, and read it. This is the first step
that I recommend for everyone, because now you will know, what the laws actually say.
Then I went to the FAA website and I printed out the "Remote Pilot Small Unmanned Aircraft
Systems Airman Certification Standards" and read through that. That was very helpful, and gave me a
good outline of what I needed to know. Then I went back to the FAA website and I printed out all the
different circulars, and other instructions they have up there, that relate to being a drone pilot.
Once again it's very important to understand what the rules are. Then I went to free training
on YouTube, and yes, YouTube is a great place to learn how to do things. And I found a good set of
videos that were put out by the Drone Coach. He had a whole study guide with several videos, and
I'll put a link in the description for his course. They were completely free on YouTube,
and they were probably the best courses I found up there, that were for free. I also watched videos
by the Pilot Institute. They have a lot of really good videos. I'll put a link for them.
And I also found a small YouTube channel by Heather Monthie. I hope I pronounced that right.
She doesn't make part 107 her main focus of her web site or her YouTube channel,
but she had some really good videos that explained airspace, and I'll put a link to her
YouTube channel too. Now the reason you want to get your license
is that if you don't get your license you could set yourself up for a big fine,
if they find video on your YouTube channel and you don't have a license for your drone.
Now the score I got on my FAA test, that I took after only studying for three weeks,
was a 93 percent. That's 93 without paying a dime for training. It only cost me the $170 or so
for the test, that are you're required to pay. So I'm going to end this video with
some examples of some drone footage that I got using my drone. So I hope you these videos.