204 Hobby to Career Ft. rctestflight
Flite Test: Aviation - RC Planes - Multirotors
Flite Test
4.9 • 600 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today on the Flite Test Podcast, James is joined by YouTuber and long-term RC hacker and tinkerer Daniel Riley. Daniel is best known for his YouTube channel rctestflight. In the last year, he's turned his passions into a career with his work for FreeFly Systems and his LED company Stratus LEDs.
Watch Daniel's videos on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/rctestflight
Check out The Flite Test Book of R/C Airplanes available in the US, UK and Europe today!
FT Store - https://www.flitetest.com/book
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the flight test podcast. I'm your host James Wormsley and today we have a podcast topic that will be of interest to, hopefully all of you and very relevant to, I'm sure, a good many of you. We're talking about turning your passions into work, how the RC hobby can benefit you career-wise and how to get places using it. |
| 0:22.6 | Now, of course, the RC hobby is a tool that you can use just for relaxation |
| 0:27.8 | and for having loads of fun with your friends, but I thought it would be quite interesting |
| 0:33.3 | to sort of explore this topic of maybe going you know, going into sort of drone work and photography |
| 0:40.3 | and stuff like this that a lot of people have done from originally being just hobbyists |
| 0:47.3 | and people like you and me who just enjoy RC airplanes and multi-roters and all of these |
| 0:53.3 | kind of things. So yeah, that's why I thought it would be fun to explore this topic today. |
| 0:58.5 | Before we get into this podcast, though, we've got a quick announcement here at FlightTest HQ. |
| 1:04.0 | Many of you will have already seen this already through FlightTest.com |
| 1:07.9 | and announcements on the Flight Test Facebook page. |
| 1:12.1 | But just so everyone is aware, we are, we've just released our first book. Um, so this is, it's called the, the flight |
| 1:19.3 | test book of RC airplanes. Um, and we're all very excited about it here. Uh, so yeah, |
| 1:25.3 | and I especially, because I actually wrote it. But yeah so this is |
| 1:31.0 | quite exciting because we've started to publish printed books to go along with |
| 1:36.1 | our speed build kits and RC gear on the store. And this is so that you you guys in |
| 1:41.0 | the community have a physical tangible means of learning about the hobby in a different |
| 1:46.0 | way to how you might have learnt about it before. So through watching videos and reading articles. |
| 1:53.2 | So yeah, this book is angled at beginners in particular, but we wanted to establish a sort of |
| 2:00.3 | solid foundational layer as hopefully the first |
| 2:04.0 | book in a series of publications. But it can really be appreciated by anyone, even if you're a |
| 2:10.7 | pro pilot. You know, from beginner to pro pilot, you'll still get value and be able to own a piece of flight test |
| 2:18.1 | on your personal bookshelf or coffee table. |
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