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John Dickow: [00:00:00] Can you just tell me what the trust exam is?

Garey Scott: It allows you to enjoy flying your drones a bit more because you know the do's and don'ts, uh, and it gives that knowledge.

John Dickow: Hi, and welcome back to another episode of your Drone Questions answered. Today we're answering the question, how do I register my drone for recreational use after taking the trust? Today I have with me Gary Scott. He's c e o and Pilot of Scott Airborne Imagery. Thanks for joining me today, Gary. I'm glad to be here now.

Gary, can you first tell me a little bit about your background with drones, especially in relation to recreational flying?

Garey Scott: I've been in drones about four years. Uh, do a lot of flying, uh, start out recreational, did a lot of pictures, just, uh, loved taking pictures. It's kind of like my little. Zen place, I guess you want to say, you know, somewhere I can go.

Nobody's bothering me. I can take pictures and see the [00:01:00] beautiful places. Uh, I've been flying for about four years now, uh, business-wise, two years, uh, before then, and then still even today. I do fly recreational when I'm not working. Uh, a lot of beautiful places around Pennsylvania. I like to fly. Uh, and as long as I'm not flying for a business, I'm flying recreational, and that's just me having.

John Dickow: Awesome. Well, you're the right person to answer this question. Can you just tell me what the trust exam is?

Garey Scott: A lot of. Hobbyists are out there not knowing what to do. And I'm, I'm the same, I'm the same way. When I first started, I didn't know anything about what a drone's supposed to, how high you were supposed to fly, how far you can fly.

So what that's done is, is it's taken part of that 1 0 7, the business side of the house and just kind of broke it down to digestible pieces for the hobby, recreational pilot. It allows you to enjoy flying your drones a bit more because you know the dos and don'ts, uh, and it gives that knowledge.

John Dickow: Yeah. It seems like it's a very important element to getting [00:02:00] into drones.

Yes, it is. Let's say I went ahead and I took my, my trust exam, I did pretty well, maybe not a hundred percent. So how am I, what am I gonna do now to get my drone registered so I can fly

Garey Scott: recreationally? Well, okay, first of all, the drone, the test is, it's not a pass fails informational test. So from when you, once you take that trust test, Trust exam.

Excuse me. Then we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna basically register your drone. A lot of people think they don't have to register it, but, uh, if your drone is more than 200, 4 50 grams or 0.55 ounces or pounds and less than 55 pounds, it has to be registered even if you're recreational or for business purposes.

And that way we would do that is we would go ahead and log on to the, the, uh, ffa uh, drone. And it's all up there. It's free to go ahead and go online and you log in there. And then once you log in and get your account, you go into what they call it, says We add a device. And once you add that click on there, [00:03:00] that'll break it down into you getting your basic name information, uh, serial number of your drone, puts all that information in there.

Uh, and then once. To finalize all that, you hit the next page and it'll drop down to your personal information because they wanna be able to atti attach that registration number, kind of like your license plate or your driver's license number on, on your, for you right there. So it just attaches that number to your drone.

Uh, then you'll click that there is a $5 fee for register registering your drone, but just no problem, uh, once you do. They'll actually go ahead and send you a number that you have to display on your drone. Just make sure you put it in a place that it can be seen, uh, and not covered up. So when you're flying, it's there.

John Dickow: That does sound relatively simple. And you can do it from

Garey Scott: home. Yes, sir. And you can do it from your cell phone too as well.

John Dickow: Why is this, you know, important? What are, you know, some consequences if you didn't register?

Garey Scott: I hate that old little cliche is [00:04:00] F FAA said we have to, so we have to, we have to apply, we have to follow those FFA guidelines.

F FAA guidelines. One, it identifies the drone to who, who's flying it or who's authorized to fly it. We have to be careful. We're allowing somebody to borrow a drone because they may wanna fly our drone and they crash. You're still gonna be held liable because the drones register. Register under your name.

So again, it keeps. Safe. It allows us, say if you are drone or you're flying, your drone falls out of the sky, cuz it does happen. Somebody can identify that drone. If you haven't been able to find it, somebody can find that drone. Call up local Air Airport or F FAA and they can give that number and that can identify who it is.

Then get in back in contact you and get your drone back to you. It's

John Dickow: kind of like having like a sticker on your license plate or something.

Garey Scott: Yep. That's your drone license plate. Yeah.

John Dickow: And if you get pulled over, you might get dinged for it.

Garey Scott: Yes.

John Dickow: This was excellent. Is [00:05:00] there anything else you kind of wanna

Garey Scott: add?

Just have fun and fly because there's nothing like seeing things from love. Awesome,

John Dickow: awesome. Well thank you Gary. I really appreciate the time you, you put aside here for this conversation. Yes sir. Anytime. Thanks Gary and thanks for watching.