Recent content by Rob Hodges

My advice is to not quit your day job right away. Test the market and make sure you can make a living at it before fully committing. All these YouTube influencer videos make it look easy and leave you with the impression that you will make thousands a week. Most pilots don't make that...

Use your internal height and distance from you limits. I would certainly consider that a geofence. I would be surprised if they actually meant to use the "Flysafe system"

The problem is what to do with the data after you take it. I have the V2 and nobody apparently wants to deal with anything that isn't DJI.

I would say it strictly depends on the size of the job, based on how much you can stand to lose. For a half hour job, I don't ask for anything. Most people will pay you if they use your pictures. In almost 6 years and 560 jobs, I have only been stiffed once. If I'm doing a $1K or more...

Maybe referring to them as "Landscape Panoramas" will work.

The original bill only specified DJI drones in the text. I wouldn't be surprised if it was added to though, as it, or if it moves through the chain. I wish Mr. Warnas luck and hope he has success, but I'm hoping for a software fix to the issue. I have too much money invested in Chinese...

Don't forget that bill, currently in Congress to make DJI drones illegal. I'm not buying anything DJI right now. I would like to have the new Avata 2, but am already risking about 6K in DJI equipment if that bill goes through. We need to all contact our congressmen and tell them not to...

With PrecisionHawk's reported chapter 7 bankruptcy, does anyone know what will happen to Droners.io? That should shake things up quite a bit, but unfortunately may push a lot of clients to the lowest possible paying job bundler.

About a half hour ago, a 19 Phantom battery job popped up for $100...and I thought the last one was bad.

I just checked. The Evo II 640T is listed as in "BETA" on their website. No way would I pay $1000 for "Beta" software.

The only jobs around here in Zeitview for over $100 require 8-14 Phantom batteries, an hour of driving 1 way and several miles of walking, usually on old rotten railroad tracks while looking up. I had a couple of decent commercial real estate jobs last year, but one was pretty far away and...

I think it's actually getting worse. A few years ago, when I was starting, I was getting $120 Dronebase jobs that took 1 Phantom battery, or at most 1.5 and not more than 10 miles from home. Now, a $70 mapping job comes up and people jump on it in a couple of minutes. They recently wanted...

I often work with a higher end real estate photography agency. The owner has been hit by this numerous times and avoids it by requiring payment up front. I require up-front payment, at least partially, if I don't know where the request is coming from. I also check the client out and make...

Enthusiastic, but nothing more than I can get from their brochure. Skydio didn't just get out of the consumer market. They reduced functionality for those of us who used it for business by closing their software. I can no longer use Dronedeploy with it, which is what I used with it for...

I only have experience with Zeitview, but I would say no. Zeitview competes with a lot of other companies for work. Most of their jobs are listed in the 70-100 range, at least in this area, but they boost the price when no one takes it, which is when I sometimes take them. Most of my...