Most people find flying a drone is fun, exciting and stress-relieving.  What you don't know is that your drone can make you a fortune.

The FAA recognizes drones model aircraft as long as they are flying below 400 feet, are always within the line of pilot's sight, don't fly too close to airports or manned aircraft, don't fly too close to spectators and are used for recreation, said Damon Young of Florida UAV, which is a company that sells and custom builds unmanned aviation vehicles. 

He also added that the rule about keeping your unmanned aviation aircraft within your line of sight not only conforms to FAA regulations but also has a practical advantage.

For the meantime, let us forget considerations on both software and hardware, regulations from FAA, professionally and extreme safely flying.  Discover how U.S.-based pilots are making a fortune with their drones in different ways so you can do likewise.

You will be able to sell aerial footage to high-end properties.  As we all know, drone photography is very much in demand for real estate taking images of the property being sold at different angles.  Drone photography is not limited to realtors. 

You can make use of your drone taking photos of resorts, golf courses, ranches, amusement parks or camping sites.  Once you understand the kinds of images and footages that you and your drone can make for a customer, you'll gain more confidence in your sales prowess.

You can offer memorable aerial wedding photography and videography.  If you are planning to do so and capture awesome and amazing photos and videos, you have to familiarize and work closely with the venue and never fly directly overhead the guests.

You have to inspect first what kind of things you are going to capture with your drone.  In this way, you will have an estimate of what the price would be for your talent's rental together with your drone. 

Develop more of your skills and commit yourself to the industry.  You don't have to be a professional drone pilot to make bucks in the drone industry.  If you have the passion to fly the drones, you can apply for a job at a drone company.

You can become an FPV racer.  FPV stands for first-person-view and this is going to be the sport of the future.  It's completely a different skill that is needed compared to aerial photographer or videographer.  If you start practicing and developing your skills you might be producing a great fortune in the coming days.