Most growers have never had a drone operator on the property and don't know what they're agreeing to. Here's the whole thing, with nothing left vague.
Crop, hectares, chemical, location and a rough window. Two minutes through the booking form, or a phone call if you'd rather.
A fixed written quote and a date. We check airspace, obstacles and neighbouring sensitive areas before we commit to anything.
We map the block, load your chemical to label rate, fly the mission and monitor wind and drift the whole way through.
A job record: area covered, rate applied, product, batch, weather at the time and the flight map. Ready for audit.
A typical broadacre job, hour by hour.
We look at wind, temperature and inversion risk for your window and ring you if it isn't going to work. Better a call the night before than a wasted morning for both of us.
Trailer parked on firm, level ground near the block — a laneway, headland or shed apron. Generator started, batteries on charge, RTK base station set.
Powerlines, dams, tree lines, neighbouring crops, stock, and anywhere you don't want us. Ten minutes here prevents every problem worth preventing.
Boundary loaded, flight lines and buffers set. Chemical mixed to label rate, batch numbers recorded, PPE on. Wind logged before the first pass.
Autonomous flight lines with us on the controller throughout. Refills and battery swaps every few passes — roughly a 90-second turnaround. Wind rechecked continuously.
If the wind gets up, we stop. Part-sprayed and finished tomorrow beats a drift claim on the neighbour's cotton. You get a call either way.
Area covered, rate applied, product and batch, weather at application, and the flight map showing exactly where we went.
You don't need to be there all day. Plenty of growers point us at the paddock and get on with their own work.
A stood-down job is rescheduled at the earliest workable window, and you aren't charged for a job we didn't do.
Drone work isn't one season. Worth a look at where your own program has gaps.
Plenty of operators will quote anything put in front of them. We'd rather tell you now and keep you as a client for the jobs we're genuinely better at.
Tell us the crop, the hectares and the window. Written quote back the same day.