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Is it easy to get wide area authorizations? Who should you reach out and how to plan your pricing for projects that require wide area authorizations? On Today's podcast, we discuss all about obtaining wide area authorizations and the steps involved for getting these approvals. Today's question is from Ryan, who would like to know the best ways for seeking authorizations for an area that Ryan is looking to fly in. Standard FAA maps shows the area requiring heavy approvals and authorizations to be in place and Ryan would like to know what would be the best way to address this. Thanks for the question, Ryan. In response to today's question, we start off discussing the traditional approval approach for flying in heavily regulated airspace and that has been done through LAANC. We discuss some of the limitations of LAANC and share ways to obtain wide area authorizations. we discuss in detail about our experience getting these approvals in the past and the ways that we used to seek authorizations. We share tips and tricks to getting and making contacts for these authorizations and the challenges involved. We also discuss other aspects of getting and flying under these authorizations and specifically on pricing as authorizations are know to be time consuming and requiring persistent efforts to build relations and obtain approvals. We discuss the amount of fee to be charged and if they need to be a flat fee or % based. Tune in to this resourceful and detail filled podcast if you are looking to obtain a wide area authorization. Get Your Biggest and Most Common Drone Certificate Questions Answered by Downloading this FREE Part 107 PDF Make sure to get yourself the all-new Drone U landing pad! Get your questions answered: https://thedroneu.com/. If you enjoy the show, the #1 thing you can do to help us out is to subscribe to it on iTunes. Can we ask you to do that for us real quick? While you’re there, leave us a 5-star review, if you’re inclined to do so. Thanks! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ask-drone-u/id967352832. Become a Drone U Member. Access to over 30 courses, great resources, and our incredible community. Follow Us Site – https://thedroneu.com/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/droneu Instagram – https://instagram.com/thedroneu/ Twitter – https://twitter.com/thedroneu YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/droneu Timestamps: [00:58] What are the ways to fly in controlled airspace and the use of LAANC [02:42] Using Apps that don't sell your data [04:44] Today's question on how to go about obtaining authorisation around military bases and wide area authorisations. [07:33] How we worked with officials responsible for UAS operations around military base [10:56] Tips while seeking wide area authorizations [13:40] How can pilots plan their quote when navigating wide area authorisations and should you build it in your project [18:26] Should pilots charge a flat fee or a percent of their job for working on getting wide area authorizations for their clients?