Experienced Aerial Photo Pilot/Photographers
04-26-2018, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by milldog60
In a world where you as the owner of House yes. But as a business owner a drone couldn’t keep up with the amount of pictures of farms and houses an airplane can take. On a good day a plane can take anywhere from 200-400 quality farms.
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04-26-2018, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by tonsterboy5
This is true but with multiple drones it would still be cheaper. Just think if there were 5 drones and drones pilots making 200 a day the cost would be less than 10 hours of time in an airline with pilot. Not to mention for every picture taken someone needs to go door knocking to sell the picture.
How are you planning to get 5 drone pilots to work for $200/day? They make more doing work in specialized fields. Even if you could find someone to do it for that cheap how many houses would he/she be able to shoot in a day? Where farms are half a mile to mile between there’s just no way to be productive. There’s a reason of all the aerial photography companies shooting farms none are using drones. Maybe you might find a way to do it productively? Having done it I can tell you the distance flown in a day and the amount of pictures I was able to capture in that same day, a drone would not be able to keep up. Just imagine how much batteries you would need?
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04-26-2018, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by milldog60
How are you planning to get 5 drone pilots to work for $200/day? They make more doing work in specialized fields. Even if you could find someone to do it for that cheap how many houses would he/she be able to shoot in a day? Where farms are half a mile to mile between there’s just no way to be productive. There’s a reason of all the aerial photography companies shooting farms none are using drones. Maybe you might find a way to do it productively? Having done it I can tell you the distance flown in a day and the amount of pictures I was able to capture in that same day, a drone would not be able to keep up. Just imagine how much batteries you would need?
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Drone pilots are not as expensive as you think, there are some that cost a lot but like anything there are thousands of commercial drone pilots with only enough work for some of them. There is no doubt that you can take more pictures in one day with a plane, but you can’t sell them all in one day.
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