So after just a short while and just 3 hours of flying time, but after following loads of advice both here and from some great YouTubers who do this for a living, I've "landed" a first gig. It's a roofing company who happened to be doing work nearby and out of pure luck, they were already looking to add drone footage to their social media and their website to help promote their business.
I showed them some videos that I had already shot (including my own roof inspection one) and they liked it!
Commercial work is a lot easier here in Canada, since the rules came into effect in 2019 you do not need a Special Flight Operations Certificate to do commercial drone work. I was already looking into insurance and had written the Advanced pilot exam, by the end of the summer I hope to do the flight review to get the Advanced certificate -- this will allow me to fly the larger of my two drones, the Air 2S, in controlled airspace (which covers most of the city I live in!). This gig will be shot on the smaller sub 250g drone, which has fewer flight restrictions.
I showed them some videos that I had already shot (including my own roof inspection one) and they liked it!
Commercial work is a lot easier here in Canada, since the rules came into effect in 2019 you do not need a Special Flight Operations Certificate to do commercial drone work. I was already looking into insurance and had written the Advanced pilot exam, by the end of the summer I hope to do the flight review to get the Advanced certificate -- this will allow me to fly the larger of my two drones, the Air 2S, in controlled airspace (which covers most of the city I live in!). This gig will be shot on the smaller sub 250g drone, which has fewer flight restrictions.