Guides, news, and insights about drone services, aerial photography, and Terasor.
How a few minutes of circling one building becomes a 3D scene you can spin and zoom in a browser, what the footage needs, and how to upload it.
In the UK the aircraft is usually the cheap part. What the CAA requires, what training and authorisation cost from published prices, how long it takes, and the one figure nobody publishes.
The Metropolitan Police runs nine drones over London. Swedish paramedics delivered 55 defibrillators and one patient survived. What emergency services have published about their own drone programmes, what they measured, and what is still disputed.
DJI Fly can push its video feed to any RTMP server you point it at, and the setting has moved since most guides were written. This is the current menu path, the resolution and bitrate options, and the controller differences that decide what you can send.
Something drips, somebody climbs a ladder, and you are asked to agree a scope of work on the strength of what they tell you. There is another way to reach that decision, and it leaves you holding the evidence rather than the story.
Several industry sites describe the FAA Part 108 BVLOS rule as finalised. The FAA own page still calls it proposed and the Federal Register carries no final rule. Meanwhile the UK dates that are genuinely in force get a fraction of the attention. Checked against the regulators on 24 August 2026.
Most of what is written about drone pricing is estimated rather than measured. We read what 223 named companies publish on their own websites, across nine currencies and 33 places, and recorded 415 figures under a stated rule. The findings that are not prices turned out to be the interesting ones.
You land, pull the card, and find three files where you expected one. The SRT is a second by second record of where and how you flew, and the only one you cannot recreate after the flight. The LRF is a copy your phone uses. Which to keep, which to bin, and the setting to check before you fly.
Most guides tell you the rules. This one tells you what to do on the morning of a job: which restrictions apply to you rather than to somebody else, why a forecast is not the same as whether your aircraft can fly, and the five minute check that catches nearly everything.
Short answer: drone work follows the calendar more than most new pilots expect. Property and events cluster in spring and summer, inspection and survey work spreads across the shoulder seasons, and winter goes quiet for photography but opens up for thermal and indoor work.
Short answer: the pilots who make freelancing work treat the first 90 days as three jobs done in order. Days 1 to 30 are about getting legal and insured so you can take money safely.
Tornyol is building a 40 gram autonomous drone that finds mosquitoes by their wingbeats and rams them in mid air. We look at how it works, where the technology really is today, and whether it beats an old sock.