Drone Entrepreneurship and Ingenuity w/ Mike Yoder of Drone Deer Recovery, Nuway Ag, Drone On | Episode 14

Um, do you want to talk about, uh, the FAA where, where we're at right now? And, The back and forth and how it got to where it is.

If you can give us like a quick run through of where you're at and how to move forward to it.

Yeah.

So the FAA, as of right now, I signed the paperwork.

They're suspending my remote pilot's license for six months.

That is after negotiating with them.

it started two years ago when I am the guy that creates all the YouTube content.

And when you talk to attorneys and when you talk to the FA and you ask him, you know, how, how can I carry a deer out of the woods? And they look at you and they're like, well, we don't know.

And it's like, wait, aren't you the people that, make these rules or laws or whatever.

And they just didn't know.

So there were some attorneys that we were going back and forth with, is there a special exemption you can get? And then if it is an exemption, is it a 91 exemption? Is it a 135? Is it a 133? You know, is it just a...

a broad blanket of experimental.

Nobody knows.

Nobody knows.

There's now people starting to get heavy lift exemptions to do experimental stuff, but not as an actual business that I'm aware of outside of like, Amazon, Walmart, the little five-pound boxes, not something that you can go strap a big T-100 to and lift a 200-pound AC unit to the back 40 or something like that.

So nothing like that has really existed broadly.

And I knew that.

I knew that there's this gray area, right? I was trying to figure out how can I operate it under a 137 agricultural use case? If you're familiar with that, you know, it says that you can run agricultural use.

But then after I figured this all out, the FAA has a very specific definition of what can fit in there.

And if it isn't, spraying poisons from the air, fertilizing or propagating, something like that, then you can't fit into that 137.

So if you want to pick up a generator or you want to pick up a tire, then they don't know where it fits.

They just know it doesn't fit there.

They know it could fit in 135, but they also don't understand how it could be 135 because that is chartered.

But if you're not carrying or if you're carrying your own thing, well, then is that charter or is that 91? So there's this big back and forth.

Well, what is it? What is it not? And it's like, okay, you know what? I'm going to be that guy.