Chris Haskins was already an experienced drone pilot from Idaho, having snagged first place at a race in Salt Lake City last October, when the DRL contacted him. Horbaczewski and his team had seen online videos of his races with Conrad Miller, a fellow drone pilot who also flew in the league’s Miami race. “They reached out to me, and once they started telling me about the venue, the level of how epic it was going to be — heck yes, I’m trying to get to any race I can,” says Haskins, who recently became a full-time R&D engineer at a Boise-based drone company called Thrust-UAV.