<![CDATA[The Sight Picture Podcast]]>The Sight Picture Podcast is a podcast about aviation and the people who make it work, from the flight deck to the ground station.

Host Kevin Padilla is the founder of AeroVis Drone Solutions, a veteran owned aerial services company, and a career aviator with a background in military aviation, helicopter air medical operations, flight instruction, and unmanned systems. The conversations here run the way aviators actually talk to each other. Honest about the work, specific about the details, and free of the polish that usually gets applied when a camera is on.

Guests come from across the industry. Line pilots, mechanics and maintainers, dispatchers, air medical crews, instructors, safety and quality managers, drone operators, and people building the hardware. Episodes cover flying careers and how they get built, decision making and human factors, safety management systems, airspace and regulation, training pipelines, and what it takes to move between the manned and unmanned sides of the business.

Unmanned aviation is a large part of the show, because that is where the industry is expanding fastest. Subjects include photogrammetry and mapping, infrastructure and energy inspection, agriculture, public safety response, event and executive protection, hardware development and 3D printing, and counter UAS detection and support to protection teams. The show also covers how unmanned systems are reshaping modern conflict, with guests who have operated in contested environments and can speak to what this technology looks like when the stakes are real.

This is built for pilots at every stage, aviation professionals outside the cockpit, commercial drone operators and program managers, transitioning service members deciding what comes next, and anyone who buys aviation services and needs to know what a disciplined operation looks like.

The title comes from the operating concept. Beyond visual line of sight is where aviation stops being casual and starts demanding real planning, real procedure, and real accountability. That is the altitude this show flies at.

An AeroVis Drone Solutions Production. More at flyaerovis.com.

]]>www.flyaerovis.comRiverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:50:56 GMTSun, 06 Sep 2026 23:42:06 GMT60Kevin Padilla<p>The Sight Picture Podcast is a podcast about aviation and the people who make it work, from the flight deck to the ground station.</p><p>Host Kevin Padilla is the founder of AeroVis Drone Solutions, a veteran owned aerial services company, and a career aviator with a background in military aviation, helicopter air medical operations, flight instruction, and unmanned systems. The conversations here run the way aviators actually talk to each other. Honest about the work, specific about the details, and free of the polish that usually gets applied when a camera is on.</p><p>Guests come from across the industry. Line pilots, mechanics and maintainers, dispatchers, air medical crews, instructors, safety and quality managers, drone operators, and people building the hardware. Episodes cover flying careers and how they get built, decision making and human factors, safety management systems, airspace and regulation, training pipelines, and what it takes to move between the manned and unmanned sides of the business.</p><p>Unmanned aviation is a large part of the show, because that is where the industry is expanding fastest. Subjects include photogrammetry and mapping, infrastructure and energy inspection, agriculture, public safety response, event and executive protection, hardware development and 3D printing, and counter UAS detection and support to protection teams. The show also covers how unmanned systems are reshaping modern conflict, with guests who have operated in contested environments and can speak to what this technology looks like when the stakes are real.</p><p>This is built for pilots at every stage, aviation professionals outside the cockpit, commercial drone operators and program managers, transitioning service members deciding what comes next, and anyone who buys aviation services and needs to know what a disciplined operation looks like.</p><p>The title comes from the operating concept. Beyond visual line of sight is where aviation stops being casual and starts demanding real planning, real procedure, and real accountability. That is the altitude this show flies at.</p><p>An AeroVis Drone Solutions Production. More at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://flyaerovis.com" target="_blank">flyaerovis.com</a>.</p>episodicKevin Padillakpadilla@flyaerovis.comyes<![CDATA[Why Drone Operators Lose Jobs | SkyyTask Founder Geno Costello.]]>Geno Costello was selling houses when he picked up a drone. Not to become a drone operator, but because the listings he was working could not be understood from the ground. What he learned inside his own industry became SkyyTask, a platform that connects businesses who need aerial work with the pilots who can do it.

We sat down with Geno to talk about what he saw from above that changed how he sold property, why he built infrastructure instead of scaling his own operation, and what breaks when you try to build a marketplace in an industry this young. Then the part every operator should hear: what a losing bid looks like to the person who sees thousands of them.

]]>183cb2cd-4b60-4af8-8e6b-67cd2ec0764fFri, 18 Sep 2026 22:02:38 GMT<p>Geno Costello was selling houses when he picked up a drone. Not to become a drone operator, but because the listings he was working could not be understood from the ground. What he learned inside his own industry became SkyyTask, a platform that connects businesses who need aerial work with the pilots who can do it.</p><p></p><p>We sat down with Geno to talk about what he saw from above that changed how he sold property, why he built infrastructure instead of scaling his own operation, and what breaks when you try to build a marketplace in an industry this young. Then the part every operator should hear: what a losing bid looks like to the person who sees thousands of them.</p>no02:04:302Why Drone Operators Lose Jobs | SkyyTask Founder Geno Costello.full<![CDATA[From Su-24 Navigator to FPV Drone Pilot: Inside Ukraine’s Drone War | Sight Picture Podcast]]>Yehor wanted to be a pilot from the time he was old enough to know the word. He earned his way into the Ukrainian air force academy and finished it, then flew the Su-24 and the An-26. That is the whole dream, start to finish, and he was living it.

Then the war came and he walked away from the cockpit to go stand with his brothers on the front line.

He volunteered. His wife was expecting their child and she did not want him to go. He went anyway, and she stayed with him through all of it. They are still together today.

On the front he started flying drones, and the men around him could not make sense of it. A real pilot, an academy graduate with fixed wing time, sitting in the dirt with a controller in his hands. To them a pilot was someone who lived at an airfield and flew things with people inside. To Yehor it was the same job with a different aircraft, and the mission in front of him was the one that mattered.

In this conversation Yehor walks through the path from the academy to the front, what transfers from crewed flight to a small unmanned aircraft under fire, and what does not transfer at all. We talk about how quickly the drone side of the war moves, what the men in the field figured out on their own without a manual, and how you keep your standards when nothing about the environment is standard.

We also talk about the cost. The decision he made at home, the version of himself that came back to it, and what it takes to hold a marriage together while doing this work.

Yehor is the kind of aviator this show exists for. He built the career the hard way, and when it counted he put it down and picked up the mission that was in front of him.

An AeroVis Drone Solutions Production. More at flyaerovis.com.

Send me his last name and callsign if you want them in, and confirm the paragraph about his wife is cleared with him before it publishes.

]]>964843c4-55ae-4d1a-bcac-b216b8fc0d8fMon, 07 Sep 2026 00:18:09 GMT<p>Yehor wanted to be a pilot from the time he was old enough to know the word. He earned his way into the Ukrainian air force academy and finished it, then flew the Su-24 and the An-26. That is the whole dream, start to finish, and he was living it.</p><p></p><p>Then the war came and he walked away from the cockpit to go stand with his brothers on the front line.</p><p></p><p>He volunteered. His wife was expecting their child and she did not want him to go. He went anyway, and she stayed with him through all of it. They are still together today.</p><p></p><p>On the front he started flying drones, and the men around him could not make sense of it. A real pilot, an academy graduate with fixed wing time, sitting in the dirt with a controller in his hands. To them a pilot was someone who lived at an airfield and flew things with people inside. To Yehor it was the same job with a different aircraft, and the mission in front of him was the one that mattered.</p><p></p><p>In this conversation Yehor walks through the path from the academy to the front, what transfers from crewed flight to a small unmanned aircraft under fire, and what does not transfer at all. We talk about how quickly the drone side of the war moves, what the men in the field figured out on their own without a manual, and how you keep your standards when nothing about the environment is standard.</p><p></p><p>We also talk about the cost. The decision he made at home, the version of himself that came back to it, and what it takes to hold a marriage together while doing this work.</p><p></p><p>Yehor is the kind of aviator this show exists for. He built the career the hard way, and when it counted he put it down and picked up the mission that was in front of him.</p><p></p><p>An AeroVis Drone Solutions Production. More at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://flyaerovis.com" target="_blank">flyaerovis.com</a>.</p><p>Send me his last name and callsign if you want them in, and confirm the paragraph about his wife is cleared with him before it publishes.</p>yes01:17:171From Su-24 Navigator to FPV Drone Pilot: Inside Ukraine’s Drone War | Sight Picture Podcastfull