E155 - Guests: Jon Parker, Founder & CEO of Flyby Technology

I'd love to hear from you; feel free to send me a Text MessageBefore you do anything else, please hit the subscribe / follow button in your podcast platform to ensure you get immediate notification of future episodes, and to help boost this show within the algorithms.This episode is also available as a video podcast on my YouTube channel here:https://youtu.be/yUdBYnYPPQsJon Parker has had an incredible career, progressing through military flying, then airline flying, to now being the founder and CEO of his own company, Flyby Technology.  Massively experienced in the aviation world, Jon has a wealth of fascinating stories.  He served on the Royal Air Force front line, flying both the Buccaneer and the Tornado,  prior to moving over to the instructional world on the Hawk.  From there he made the jump to single seat and completed two tours of embarked aircraft carrier operations flying the Royal Navy's Sea Harrier.  Electing to leave the RAF when his children were born, Jon then went into civil aviation, rising to be a senior training captain with Tui Airlines, but suffering a very signficant medical issue during that journey that definitely threatened the end of his flying career.Recognising that he needed to have an alternative income stream, Jon then founded Flyby Technology, with an initial focus on drone pilot training.  He has subsequently diversified that business into drone production and the company is now at the cutting edge of future warfare with the work they are doing on highly capable large, armed drones, of the type that are certainly going to form part of future military capability for the UK's Armed Forces.We cover all these areas of Jon's career in some depth and this was a really interesting and fun conversation.  I hope you enjoy it as well - please do let me know what you think.You can find Jon here:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-parker-fraes-241384103/Websites: https://www.flybytechnology.com/https://www.flybydronetraining.co.uk/The video highlighted in the YouTube version of the podcast can be seen here:https://vimeo.com/833271662An overview video of Flyby Technology can be seen here:https://vimeo.com/1057183715Support the showThank you for listening!  If you value the content I produce, please consider supporting the show financially by becoming a member at https://www.patreon.com/leading4life/ or clicking the "Support the Show" link above.You will have the choice of becoming a Supporter, a Champion or a Patron of the show and any contribution you feel able to make will be hugely appreciated.You can find more about me here:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judsonbob/X: https://x.com/JudsonBobWebsite: https://leading4life.co.uk/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Leading4Life