Interview: Brad Janssen of Digital Aerial Solutions

Published on May 11, 2013 by Aidan Loehr in Interviews

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While passing through Tampa last summer while ferrying an aircraft to Africa, I caught up with Brad Janssen. Brad’s the Flight Operations Manager for Digital Aerial Solutions, a company that provides high resolution digital aerial imagery, LiDAR technology, visual information, and geospatial products.

Digital Aerial Solutions Cessna 441 Conquest II

While Brad has a wide-ranging aviation background, including being an aircraft dispatcher for two different airlines and flying for some others, his real expertise is aerial surveys. I thought I knew something about aerial survey flying given my experience flying marine mammal surveys, but our conversation made me realize the industry is a big one, and the work opportunities are more diverse than I thought.

If you’re looking to get into a type of precision flying that few people know much about, you’ll enjoy this interview … our first just for Oddball Pilot members!