Hi, I'm Facundo.
Working filmmaker out of Buenos Aires. Flying drones for paying jobs since 2018 — for around 150 weddings, real estate across Buenos Aires, and the Governor of Argentina's largest province. Notes on making it pay.
I've been flying drones since 2018, when I bought my first Phantom 3 with money I couldn't really afford to lose. That detail matters — because it shaped how I learned to fly.
While others my age were doing freestyle moves on day three, I was on the simulator, reading manuals, planning every flight like a pilot. Slow, conservative, scared of every wall. It took me longer to fly well. But I also crashed less, and I learned something most pilots skip: the drone doesn't fly itself.
That instinct served me later. Between 2020 and 2023, I worked as the official filmmaker for the Governor of Buenos Aires Province — Argentina's largest province, home to about 17 million people. I covered public infrastructure across the territory: bridges, canal dredging, construction sites, official events. Government-owned drones (the fleet standard at the time was the DJI Mavic Air 2S), real conditions, no second takes. I crashed one — into a 30-meter tree in Ensenada, in front of the Governor and a small crowd. That story is on the blog.
Outside of that, I've worked as a wedding and event filmmaker for years — around 150 weddings and counting — plus aerial work on real estate, private neighborhoods, and high-end residential. Two very different worlds — institutional and commercial — both demanding, both teaching me things YouTube tutorials don't cover.
Today I fly a DJI Avata 2 and a BetaFPV Pavo 2. I switched to FPV because, after years of cinematic flying, I realized something: the distance between a traditional drone and an FPV drone is the same as the distance between a drone and a regular camera. It's a different craft. Worth learning, but not a shortcut.
What this site is about
Drones as a filmmaking tool — not as a hobby in themselves. Honest reviews of gear I actually use. The frameworks I built over years of flying (the Pilot Stress Bar, the 20-Flight Amortization Rule, why safety features only work 80% of the time). Crash stories, because every working pilot has them. And the practical stuff — regulation, settings, gear — without the YouTube hype.
If you're picking up your first drone, transitioning to FPV, or trying to film something that actually looks good, this site is for you.
— Facundo Álvarez