Imaging, from above.

Most new Southwest Florida communities fly within two to three weeks of first contact, weather permitting. We do rush work when the calendar and the forecast cooperate. If your community is on a recurring monthly or quarterly schedule, those slots book further out, but that cadence also tends to be the cleaner way to budget and plan around treatment windows.

Part 107 is the FAA certification that allows a pilot to fly drones commercially in U.S. airspace. It requires passing an aeronautical knowledge exam and recurrent training. Hiring a non-certified pilot for paid work over your community is technically a federal violation, and your community association insurance may decline a related claim if something goes wrong. We are current on Part 107 and carry a $1M commercial liability policy. Before any flight, we issue a Certificate of Insurance listing your HOA and management company as additional insured, so your risk team has a paper trail.

In most cases, the commissioning party (board, property manager, or your lake-management vendor acting on behalf of the HOA) is authorization enough for flights over common areas. If your governing declarations require a specific homeowner notice or a board resolution before aerial work, we are happy to wait for those to be in place, and we can provide a short project brief to attach to the notice if that makes your job easier.

For a littoral survey, you get high-resolution stills of every pond perimeter, a board-ready PDF summary (the kind you can attach to a meeting packet), and a shared folder of the full capture that your lake-management vendor or county inspector can download if they need it. Mapping projects deliver georeferenced orthomosaics in whatever format your engineer or landscape architect uses. Photo and video work comes back as graded final files plus source footage, so nothing is locked to us if you want to repurpose it later.

Yes, and we strongly recommend it. We have nothing to sell that competes with your existing treatment contract. What we do provide is a neutral visual record your vendor can use to show the board that treatment is working, and that the HOA can use to verify the vendor is doing what they billed for. We often fly the week before treatment and again the week after, so everyone is working from the same set of before-and-after images.

We simply reschedule, at no charge. Florida weather is the main reason most aerial projects slip, and we build flex days into every scope of work. Sustained high winds, heavy rain, and low visibility are unsafe to fly in and also produce low-quality imagery, so the same window that keeps the drone safe also keeps your deliverables clean.

Only the common areas, ponds, and amenities the HOA commissions. We do not linger over private yards or pools, and any incidental frames that capture a private home at recognizable resolution are cropped or blurred before the deliverable ships. If a homeowner ever has a specific concern, we are happy to share what we flew and what we delivered. Transparency tends to defuse this quickly.