How to Start Drone Business in Australia?

Registration for drones, or remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), flying for business or as part of your job is now required. Some drones don’t need to be registered now. 

This applies if: you don’t intend to fly your drone

• you’re only flying for sport or recreation, including model aircraft flown at CASA-approved model airfields.

Registration is: free 

Quick, easy, and online

• Valid for 12 months
• Required from 28 January 2021.

If you fly a drone, or remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), for business or use one as part of your job, you must register it before you fly.

This applies to all drones that you fly to provide any type of service – no matter how much it weighs. This may include activities such as:

1. selling photos or videos are taken from a drone
2. Inspecting industrial equipment, construction sites or infrastructure
3. Monitoring, surveillance or security services
4. Research and development
5. Any drone activities on behalf of your employer or business.

You must be 16 or older to register a drone.

(Source:  CASA )

10 ways to start a Profitable business with Drone

1. Selling Aerial Photography & Videography

Selling aerial photos and videos to people is one of the most popular ways to make money with drones. Drone photography can be a lucrative industry, and it is becoming increasingly popular. If you want to do this job, you’ll need a drone with a gimbal and a high-quality camera capable of taking crystal clear high-quality videos and photos from the air.

Where would you sell your work’s results? Suitable locations include beach resorts, golf courses, theme parks, and city squares. Even better, you can promote your photos and videos on the internet. To gain customers and reputation in the beginning, you should start small and expose your work to people.

2. Real Estate Advertising

Yes, a drone is an excellent tool for successful marketing. If you’re a self-employed filmmaker with a lot of drone experience, you can make money advertising real estate, resorts, and hotels, among other things.

Drone-captured aerial videos can help private estates sell faster and for a higher price.As a result, real estate agents often employ UAV video companies to advertise properties for their clients. If you’re interested in learning more about drones for real estate, read our article about the best drones for real estate.

3. Offer help during Disasters like flood or fire

Drones can also be of great assistance in search and rescue operations in disaster-stricken areas. Traditional search methods, such as helicopters and dogs, have been unsuccessful in some cases, and rescuers are frequently unable to locate the missing people.

Drones, on the other hand, can easily detect missing people or whatever you’re looking for from the air. As a result, drone operators are frequently used in disaster relief to provide video services. For this job, freelance UAV pilots are well compensated. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to not only make money with your drone, but also to help people. A job is always more rewarding when you know you’re assisting others!

4. Wildlife Research

Drone wildlife tracking helps you to cover greater areas and track wildlife more quickly and efficiently. They give you a GPS location as well as visual details to help you inspect wildlife. They have a low noise footprint, so the animals aren’t scared.

Drones are becoming increasingly common for conservation purposes because they enable gamekeepers to keep an eye out for poachers, keep track of the animals, monitor the population size, and protect the landscape. In reality, wildlife surveys conducted by UAVs are often much more successful than those conducted by conservationists on the ground.

The advancement of the technique is now being accelerated by the creation of an AI-enhanced drone that can detect footprints and generate knowledge about the animals. This use case is being expanded by using it to monitor humans in order to assist park rangers in preventing animal smuggling and illegal rhino horn and elephant tusk trafficking.

5. Drone Deliveries

Many businesses (such as Amazon, AliExpress, and others) already use UAVs for this purpose, including drone deliveries in their services. Drones are also used by medical facilities, national institutions, and charitable organisations around the world to distribute supplies to hard-to-reach locations. Some sites are inaccessible by ground vehicles, so completed deliveries are used in those cases.

6. PRIVATE INVESTIGATION

Drone pilots are now being hired by several major corporations around the world to conduct air surveillance in certain regions. In reality, hiring one person who owns a drone and can perform quality surveillance is more cost-effective than paying for continuous camera surveillance.

Aside from surveillance, drones have practical applications in aerial monitoring and private investigation. These jobs are made easier and less dangerous by small unmanned aerial vehicles. Drones, in comparison to other surveillance devices, are less noticeable and can reach almost any location. While cameras are sometimes limited because they must be placed in a single location, drones can insure that every area of a facility is monitored.

7. Wedding AERIAL PHOTOS AND FOOTAGE

Wedding photography and videography is a common and, more importantly, lucrative industry. 

Since the competition in this area is fierce, you must have one-of-a-kind wedding videos and images shot from an amazing vantage point. People want amazing wedding pictures that will remind them of their special day for the rest of their lives. Why not make use of your drone for this?

You will stand out from other wedding videographers/photographers as a drone company, and you can even “steal” their clients. 

All you have to do is purchase a sophisticated small drone and a high-resolution camera to go with it, and practise every day. 

If you’re new to the industry, you can start as a second videographer or photographer and work on a few weddings for free. Start your company from there, and make sure to get referrals from all of your happy customers!

8. OFFER SERVICES IN AERIAL SURVEYING

Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), similar to drones, can take photos from above and thus record terrestrial locations that are difficult or impossible to reach and measure from the ground. 

Drones today have excellent flight capabilities and can be controlled remotely, making them ideal for aerial surveying in difficult terrain. As a result, they have largely replaced helicopters and other aircraft in surveying.

Aerial surveys have a wide range of applications, including topography, digital mapping, archaeology, feature recognition, various GIS applications, and so on. 

Actually, many professional organisations around the world have a need for aerial surveys, and this is an excellent opportunity to establish a private company and provide aerial surveying services.

9. Advertising for Hotels and resorts

Aerial video footage of hotels and resorts is also captured using small drones equipped with high-resolution cameras. It’s a great way to flaunt and promote a particular hotel, say, one that’s in a prime location on a property. This would make the specific resort hotel more appealing to tourists and potential customers.

10. Drone Videos on Youtube

Another way to make money with aerial footage is to start your own YouTube channel and post videos taken by your drone. Publish your drone footage on your YouTube channel and become a part of the website’s partnership program to begin earning money online. 

This way, you can gain a large number of subscribers who will follow your entire body of work.

There are, of course, other ways to profit from your drone’s camera. You can, for example, increase traffic to a specific website or online store that features your photography, sell in-video advertising placement, promote your products through advertisements, and much more. 

There are numerous ways to profit in this manner; it all depends on how creative you want to be and how much effort you want to put into perfecting your craft.

Wrapping up

As you can see, there are numerous ways to profit after purchasing a drone; all you need to do is put your mind to work. There are numerous ways to market your drone services, with the common denominator being effective promotion and excellent customer service! 

So, regardless of how you choose to use your drone for profit, do your research and insure that your drone skills are excellent before beginning your business.