Why you should hire a professional drone pilot. Part 3 of 3: Value

With drones becoming more affordable and more people seeing the value they add, it just makes since why you should incorporate drone products into your business . Besides the legality of using a drone for business, can be read here, the value a licensed drone pilot adds is more than you may think.

A licensed pilot has already gone through the trouble of getting the Part 107 license. The Part 107 license is issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the exam the consists of 90 questions that range form, how far does your drone have to be from a cloud, to what airspace is around an airport and how to request authorizing to fly in controlled airspace. Along with studying for weeks or months, paying the $160 to take the exam, a certified pilot has to get recertified every 24 months as well as take what ever new training the FAA may come out with between the 24 month recertification period.

A licensed drone operator may take 1 hour to film a commercial real estate property and then spend 8-14 hours editing the marketing video for the property (depending on the extent of the editing required) . Most realtors or any other professionals don’t have that kind of time to spend on creating marketing material. Allowing a professional drone pilot to capture the aerial images that your business needs, will not only produce superior imaging but will likely save you the headache of becoming licensed and learning the editing software it takes to make breathtaking material.