Professional Aerial Photography

May 1, 2014|G-Aviation

Professional Aerial Photography

As flitetest have discussed before in the US your not allowed to earn money using UAV/Multirotors for aerial video & aerial photography. In the UK we don't have have this problem, but the Civil Aviation Authority have put rules in the way to be able to do it legally

To do it in the uk you need to have an RPQ which is a remote pilots qualifiation and is a 3 day course you have to take which is £1500 once you have that you have to apply for premision to fly from the CAA and then they still might not let you fly.

So taking all that into account I decided to start my own company called G Aviation and do aerial photography professionally, I’ve have no photography experience what so ever accept for what photo’s taken on my Iphone. I’ve been flying RC models for the last 10 years, only multirotors in the last year.

So what I did was get on young business scheme and got a business loan for £7,300 which most I have spent. If your considering doing this I would recommend no less than £5,000 to do aerial photography professionally and to get the right kit!

1. The Multirotor

I went for the DJI F550 Hexcopter with:

NAZA M V2

Mini iOSD

Zenmuse Gimbal

GoPro Hero 3 + black

Imerssion RC FPV set up with 7" monitor

Futaba TJ8

with a 5200mAh battery I can get up to 15 - 20 minuets flight time

I had it built and test flown by a compnay called buildyourowndrone.com

I also built my own FPV ground station with a TV monitor to work with the new DJI light bridge which I have pre ordered but not recieved yet.

I also got a Macbook pro with Final cut Pro & apature installed (I would highly reccomend this as its great for editing and is so easy) to do the picture and video editing and here are some photo's I've taken and edited so far.