Most Part 107 study platforms are built by education companies. They hire a subject matter consultant, write lessons, run ads, and optimize for a 60-question multiple-choice exam. VLOSready started differently — it started because the guy who built it was tired of switching between eight apps to prepare for a single flight.
The operator
VLOSready is built by Diego Valdivieso. Diego is Part 107 certified and runs Clear Cut Studios, a drone production company doing real estate photography, commercial video, and aerial work for agencies and direct clients. He's not a full-time educator, he's not a test-prep entrepreneur — he's a pilot who ships jobs and gets paid to fly.
The problem
Here's what preparing for a routine real-estate shoot looked like before VLOSready:
- One app to check airspace at the address.
- Another to pull the METAR and decode visibility and ceiling.
- A third for TAF forecasts.
- A fourth for TFRs.
- A fifth for NOTAMs.
- A spreadsheet for the logbook.
- Word documents for the client preflight brief.
- Another spreadsheet for invoicing and battery cycles.
Eight apps. For one job. If the ceiling dropped, you'd check three of them again. If the client asked for a preflight report, you'd copy-paste across four. It wasn't broken, exactly — but it was slow, error-prone, and nothing talked to anything else.
The build
VLOSready started as a weekend project to put the study material Diego wished he'd had when he was prepping for his UAG — weighted by topic, with AI narration so he could review in the truck between shoots. That became the study platform. Then the Pro tools followed, one by one: airspace map because he was tired of checking three apps to plan a flight. Flight logbook because Excel didn't export PDFs. Preflight brief because clients kept asking for “something that proves you're legal.” Invoice generator because Stripe invoices didn't look professional enough.
Every tool in VLOSready exists because Diego needed it for a job. Nothing is there because a product manager thought it would improve retention. The test is simple: if it doesn't earn its keep on a commercial flight, it doesn't ship.
What this means for you
When you read a VLOSready lesson or use one of the Pro tools, you're reading and using the same thing Diego uses. The AI narration is there because he listens to it. The preflight brief template is there because his clients ask for it. The currency tracker email reminder is there because he nearly let his own 24-month window slip. The logbook exports GPX because a client asked for flight paths. This is software built by operators, not pitched to them.
Not a test-prep company
We don't sell crash courses with motivational emails. We don't upsell you to a “mentorship tier.” We don't run webinars. The study platform is there to get you through the exam with real comprehension — and then the Pro tools are there to help you actually operate as a Part 107 pilot afterwards. Most of our customers start on the study side and come back for Pro once they're flying for money.
Built by a drone operator, for drone operators.
That's the entire philosophy. Everything else is details.
Where to find us
If you want to reach Diego directly — feedback, feature requests, or just a question about a specific lesson — email support@vlosready.com. It goes to a human. Usually him.
See what an operator built.