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The company began in 2017 with one pilot, one aircraft and a roofing contractor who was tired of erecting scaffolding just to find out whether the building needed scaffolding. We now run six aircraft and four pilots, and roughly 70% of the work is inspection rather than photography.

What we fly for

  • Roof & façade inspection — Close-range stills at 45 megapixels, flown in an overlapping grid so nothing is missed. A two-storey commercial roof takes about 40 minutes on site and produces around 300 images, with a marked-up defect summary.
  • Thermal surveys — Radiometric imaging for heat loss, flat-roof moisture and photovoltaic arrays, flown at dusk when the temperature differential is widest. Reports include the calibration data, because an attractive orange picture on its own proves nothing.
  • Mapping & photogrammetry — Orthomosaics, contour models and volumetric stockpile measurement, tied to ground control points for survey-grade accuracy. Outputs in the common CAD and mapping formats — tell us what your surveyor uses and we will match it.
  • Construction progress — A fixed flight path repeated monthly from the same waypoints, so images line up frame to frame across the whole build. Clients use them for valuations, for disputes, and for the occasional very satisfying time-lapse.

Every job starts with a site assessment and ends with a weather call, usually the evening before. We do not fly in sustained winds above 24 knots, in visible rain, or when the cloud base puts the aircraft out of sight — and we would rather move a booking twice than hand you 4K footage of grey murk!

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Hero lines

  • A better vantage point
  • Surveys from ninety metres up
  • Certified pilots, sensible weather calls

Licensed remote pilots, £5m public liability cover and the habit of telling you when the wind means we should come back tomorrow.

Roof inspections, progress photography and survey-grade mapping — delivered as files your engineers can actually open.

We fly across eleven counties, hold authorisation for congested areas, and file every permission before we quote you a date.

Team bios

Callum Rhodes — Chief pilot

Callum logged nine years as a surveyor before he ever picked up a controller, which is why his inspection reports read like engineering documents rather than photo captions. He has 2,300 recorded flight hours and an unshakeable belief that the wind forecast is optimistic by four knots.

Anneke Visser — Thermography lead

Anneke came from building services and holds a professional thermography qualification. She is the reason we fly heat surveys after sunset rather than at lunchtime, and she will happily explain emissivity to anyone who asks — and to several people who did not.

Rui Ferreira — Operations & permissions

Rui handles airspace, landowner consent and all the paperwork nobody enjoys. He talks to the control towers so that our pilots never have to improvise, and he keeps a wall map with every restricted zone in the region marked out in three colours.

Quotes

“They found a cracked flashing on a roof we had already surveyed twice from a cherry picker. The whole flight took half an hour and cost less than the hire did.”

Gareth Mulvaney, Facilities Manager, distribution centre

“Their pilot called at seven in the evening to move the shoot because of a front coming in. The client thought we were being fussy; the next morning it rained sideways for six hours.”

Sinéad Barlow, Project Architect

“We asked for “something for the website” and got a monthly progress set that later settled a £40,000 valuation dispute. Best accidental decision we made all year!”

Piotr Zalewski, Site Manager

FAQ answers

Do you need permission to fly over my site?

Usually yes, and it depends on the airspace, the people nearby and the height of surrounding buildings. We hold authorisation to operate close to structures and in congested areas, but landowner consent for take-off and landing is something we will ask you to confirm in writing.

What happens if the weather turns?

We reschedule at no charge, up to twice. Our limits are 24 knots sustained wind, visible precipitation and a cloud base under 150 metres. Flying at the edge of those numbers produces soft images and unhappy insurers, so we simply do not do it.

How quickly do we get the files?

Unprocessed stills the same day, by download link. Inspection reports take three working days, orthomosaics four to five, and edited video around a week. Urgent turnaround is possible for a 35% surcharge — we have delivered storm claims by nine the next morning more than once.

Are you insured for commercial work?

£5 million public liability as standard, with the certificate sent before we arrive rather than after you ask. Higher cover can be arranged for airside, rail or utility work, usually within two days and at cost. Every aircraft is logged, maintained and serviced on schedule.

Closing lines

Send us a postcode, a rough idea of what you need to see, and a photograph of the site from the ground if you have one. We can tell you within a day whether it is flyable, what it will cost, and roughly when the airspace will let us in.

Most surveys are booked seven to ten days ahead. If it is urgent, call rather than email — one of the pilots will usually pick up between 7am and 7pm, weekends included.

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