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hey everyone it's Mike here from
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filtergrade and today we're going to be
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continuing our drone video series by
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talking about how to get your trust
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certification from the FAA this is a
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free test you can complete to show that
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you understand how to safely and legally
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fly your drone in the United States it's
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for recreational Flyers only there's
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separate things for people who are going
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to commercially fly a drone whether it's
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to capture video or do other commercial
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Aviation type work with drones for that
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we'll talk about that in future videos
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as it relates to like capturing video
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content right now though we have a drone
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that's under .5 lb I believe or it's
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something around that weight I'm going
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to check the exact number and we'll put
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it in the video but I think it's 250 g
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in Gams and when you have a drone under
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this amount you don't need to
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technically register it unless you're
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doing commercial work if it's just for
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recreational work you know filming font
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videos test flights things of that
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nature then you can just register it as
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recreational and so we're going to talk
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about that in this video today trust
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stands for the recreational uas safety
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test it's a free online test that all
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recreational drone flyers in the United
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States need to pass to comply with the
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FAA regulations when you're first
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starting out you can you know test out
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your drone whatever but it's good to get
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this as soon as you can because once you
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have it if you ever do have any issues
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when you're flying your drone depending
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on where you are or if you run into
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police or other types of personnel you
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can show them your certificate to prove
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that you're safely and legally flying a
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drone in the United States the issue is
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it might not be airspace that's approved
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so we're going to also talk about some
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places where you can find out how to
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safely fly your drone in a place where
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it's designated and it won't be banned
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or getting in the way of things like
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airports major cities or other things
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that could get you inlegal and other
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types of trouble why do you need this
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test you might be thinking oh I don't
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need this I only fly my drone every so
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often and that could be true if you're
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staying somewhere extremely real and
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maybe you're just flying on your
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property all the time I don't
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necessarily think you need this however
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it's always a good idea to learn safety
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regulations and other regulations around
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your drone flying a drone isn't
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something like simple like just like
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holding a camera in your hand you know
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it's going in the air it could get in
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the way of helicopters other things in
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the air planes whatever you know and
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because of that and the other security
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implications it's a good idea to really
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take precautions and really understand
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what you're getting into and so I would
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recommend anyone to take this test as
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early as you can once you start flying a
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drone it only takes about 20 to 30
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minutes it's completely free and you'll
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understand a little bit better about
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what the US and local regions think
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about how you should fly your drone and
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it how to get your trust certification
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so what you're going to want to do is
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navigate to the Federal Aviation
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Administration website or the FAA and
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research a bit about this when you're on
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there you can understand what trust is
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and why they made it it's specifically
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for recreational drone flyers and it's a
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pretty simple 30-minute test you can
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take online or in person in a few
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locations if you want to show that
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you're certified and also to legally fly
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your drone in the United States
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basically what you want to do is go down
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here on the list where it says list of
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FAA approved test administrators scroll
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down and look for UAV coach then you'll
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page and when you get there you're going
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to be able to see a little bit more
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about what they're offering they offer
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the trust test on their website it's
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very easy you just click get started and
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once you do that you fill out your name
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and information as you can see right
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here it says first pre please provide
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your name and email for the certificate
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make sure when you put your name you put
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your full legal name because this is
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going to be the certificate that you're
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you know showing to people such as your
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you know a police officer or some other
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security Personnel next you click submit
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and then once you click that you'll be
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loaded onto the next page which
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basically takes you through the entire
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test as you can see on my screen I've
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already done it so it's showing 100%
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done but when you get to the first page
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it'll say welcome in course overview and
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this is where you get started it's going
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to tell you a little bit about the
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background and then you just go through
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all the sections and take all the tests
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they're very simple like five 5 to 10
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question multiple choice tests and it's
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just to show that you understand what
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you were reading in the lessons and that
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you know how to safely file your drone
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once you get to the end you'll see the
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completion confirmation basically this
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just says that you actually did it and
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it then shows your finished
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certificate once you have that you're
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going to want to download the file save
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it to your computer save it to your
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phone save it everywhere that you can
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because you never know when you're going
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to need it and you might not have your
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physical copy I also recommend printing
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a physical copy because it's good to
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show that in person when you're flying
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your drone in case anything comes
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up once you complete your recreational
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uas safety test this is what you'll get
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as your certificate print up a copy and
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then whenever you fly your drone I
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recommend keeping this on you just in
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up all right so that's it that's how you
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get your drone certification for the
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recreational drone flying in the United
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States of America I hope you like that
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video be sure to like comment and
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subscribe below thanks so much
