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The Pilots of the Caribbean podcast is a weekly show about drones and the people that use them for fun, research or business in the Caribbean.
In each episode, we'll cover a wide range of topics, including:
How to use drones for business, fun, and research.
New business opportunities in the drone industry.
Regulatory changes affecting drone pilots.
Exciting ways to take your interest in drones to the next level.
We'll also feature interviews with drone pilots from around the Caribbean, who will share their stories and insights on how they're using drones to make a difference, make money, or just have fun.
Whether you're a drone pilot, a business owner, or just someone who's interested in learning more about drones, Pilots of the Caribbean is the perfect podcast for you. So tune in every week for your dose of drone news, interviews, and insights.
Subscribe today and never miss an episode!
In each episode, we'll cover a wide range of topics, including:
How to use drones for business, fun, and research.
New business opportunities in the drone industry.
Regulatory changes affecting drone pilots.
Exciting ways to take your interest in drones to the next level.
We'll also feature interviews with drone pilots from around the Caribbean, who will share their stories and insights on how they're using drones to make a difference, make money, or just have fun.
Whether you're a drone pilot, a business owner, or just someone who's interested in learning more about drones, Pilots of the Caribbean is the perfect podcast for you. So tune in every week for your dose of drone news, interviews, and insights.
Subscribe today and never miss an episode!
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Genevieve DeCambra spent over a decade building Suncor Energy's enterprise drone program from a two-person side project into one of the largest in North America, running more than 4,000 missions a year and generating over 150 documented use cases. Now the founder of Nest Robotics and a board member of Canada's Aerial Evolution Association, she joins Alan Gabriel to break down what it actually takes to get leadership buy-in for drone technology, how a University of Toronto study traced $400,00...
Andrew Ashur never touched a robot before his junior year at Davidson College, where he watched a window-washing crew get thrown around by wind and decided there had to be a better way. Nine years, a $12 soldering iron, and $34 million in funding later, Andrew is the founder and CEO of Lucid Bots, and his team's Sherpa drone puts people on the ground instead of lifts, ladders, and scaffolding. Alan Gabriel talks with Andrew about teaching himself drone engineering from a Christmas gift book, ...
Stuart Smith spent decades touring arenas as a guitarist for the band Sweet before COVID collapsed his music income and pushed him into drones. Today he runs The Droning Company, a subscription platform connecting thousands of US drone pilots with paying work, without taking a cut of their earnings. Stuart breaks down how his no-commission model works, why niche gigs like ash scattering and gender-reveal flights can pay $500 a session, and which industries are hiring drone pilots at the highe...
This month's Caribbean drone news: Barbados stands up a new multi-role drone unit spanning defence, disaster response, and agriculture. Antigua and Barbuda's Cabinet weighs a national BVLOS security network amid rising gun crime. And out of Washington, a Section 232 tariff proclamation and an FCC proposal to redefine "military-grade" drones could both reshape what Caribbean operators pay for thermal, LiDAR, and heavy-lift equipment. Alan Gabriel breaks down what each story means for operators...
Derrick Annan built a drone survey business in Ghana, then used one certification to expand into four more African countries. As Co-Founder and CEO of Axis Drone Surveys, Derrick grew the company from a single survey job into operations across Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Tanzania, riding on West Africa's ECOWAS framework for cross-border recognition. Alan and Derrick get into why Ghana's regulators moved fast once Zipline built the world's largest drone delivery network there, ...
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