Consider This Before Hiring Licensed Drone Operators

Drones quickly gained popularity and more photographers and cinematographers started using them in past few years since it was introduced to the market.  Because of its availability to general public a lot of people out there are also available with wide variety of skills. So if you are looking for licensed drone operators with camera skills, it’s not going to be easy because it’s not something like taking a group picture at school or at any family function with a smart phone. It is important to choose wisely in order to avoid an expensive mistake. So there are few things you should consider making clear before hiring one and the points I am going to discuss here are very simple, so without any further delay let’s start with it.

Asking If They Have Required Licenses

Every country has their own laws, rules and regulations regarding flying a drone. In few countries you can fly drones without any licenses but in every country you have this privilege so before hiring a licensed drone operator always ask this simple question if they have all required permissions and licenses to operate drone and make videos. I would recommend you to not just ask but always see it physically to make sure of it. Still there are licenses required like; CASA governs Remote Piloted Aircraft (RPA) under the CASA Regulations laws. These licenses only can only be obtained after proper training. So do not hesitate before asking if they have required licenses.

Asking For Insurance

While performing your project if any mishap happens and accidently some damage happens to public it should be covered under specific insurance done for drone. Drone operator must have insurance to cover these kind of accidents if they do not have same then it can be big trouble for you also. In case if they do not have insurance the victim can also sue you with drone operator for their damages.

Job Safety Analysis (JSA) And Operators Manual

Job safety analysis consists of a written review involving solution to eradicate possible risk to operators and general public. On the other hand operator’s manual consists of written manual guide book regarding how to operator a drone and other drone systems. CASA made it mandatory for all licensed drone operators to have operators manual.

Equipments, Backup Plan And File Format

In the end you must ask which equipments they are going to use for your project. You can Google about the equipments according to your requirements if you need to. There are verity of drones available used for performing different tasks in various ways. Some can carry heavy cameras with heavy lenses and some cannot, so it should be according to your requirements.

After discussing equipment you should confirm if they have a backup plan or not in case any thing wrong happens with drone or any other equipment. Sometimes due to mechanical malfunctions equipments stop working in between so you should get suffered by that. You are paying for a service and you should get your work done in time.

Finally always discuss it prior if editing and processing of required format of final product will be done by them or not. Discuss firmly if you just need a raw images and videos or processed product.

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