DroneBase hires private, certified drone pilots to take speculative real estate photos. They ask for pilots to be insured - but don't ask for proof. They also request pilots to fly in restricted airspace- or at least don't check to see if a job is inside the airspace before soliciting a pilot.
DroneBase #dronebase pays $19 (after their cut-I know- I've been doing it) to certified drone pilots for a job. Deduct insurance that the pilot pays out of pocket, and the pilot ends up with about $9 in their pocket. Not worth flying for them.
Sorry, but at DB's low rate, a pilot cannot plan on making a business with DB as their main source. Now DB is gathering all the big real estate corps and low balling the rates - driving this specialty and certification into McDonald's volume territory. Good for DroneBase-making bank until the next volume drone contractor comes along.
In my previous article, I mentioned Dronebase for starting out - but that's it. They lowball. Hire a drone pilot directly, locally and make sure they are licensed by the FAA and ask for proof of insurance.
Here are the articles that prompted my current story....
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6280091944878174208
“How We’re Revolutionizing the Real Estate Space” by DroneBase https://medium.com/@dronebase/how-were-revolutionizing-the-real-estate-space-17301a4686c7
