Hire a UK drone pilot, on demand

Traditional drone hire means posting a brief on directories, chasing 3–5 quotes, vetting CAA credentials and insurance yourself, and hoping the pilot you pick actually shows up. Drone Assisted replaces that with a single managed brief:

• Submit once — location, service, urgency, documents. Takes about 3 minutes.
• We match — the closest verified pilot with the right capability is dispatched. You see their credentials before they fly.
• We manage — briefing, dispatch, quality control, and delivery are all handled by our team. You have one point of contact end to end.
• You approve — imagery and reports land in your portal, typically within 48 hours of flight. Nothing is shared externally without your permission.

You never handle pilot vetting, insurance-checking, or job-management overhead. If a pilot cancels, we redispatch. If quality falls short of the brief, we reshoot at our cost.

Our verified pilots cover every mainstream commercial specialism:

• Roof surveys and inspections — residential, commercial, industrial. Insurance-grade evidence with no scaffolding.
• Thermal surveys — heat loss, water ingress, solar PV faults, electrical inspections.
• Site and land surveys — orthomosaics, 3D models, volumetric measurement, topographic mapping.
• Solar PV inspections — module-level thermal fault detection across arrays of any size.
• Real-estate and marketing aerials — property, hotel, land and commercial marketing imagery.
• Construction progress monitoring — recurring site captures with side-by-side comparison.
• Emergency response — rapid post-event situational awareness for insurers and loss adjusters.
• FPV fly-through — cinematic interior and exterior fly-throughs for property, venues and marketing.

If your job needs a specialist skill or piece of equipment we haven't listed, submit the brief anyway and we'll tell you within one working day whether we can cover it.

Prices are driven by three things: how long the flight takes, how specialist the equipment is, and how much post-processing the deliverables need.

• Single-property jobs (roof, inspection, media): £150–£600
• Commercial inspections (buildings, towers, industrial): £400–£1,200
• Thermal, LiDAR, mapping: £500–£2,500+ depending on site size
• Day rates (generalist media / inspection): £400–£800
• Specialist day rates (thermal, LiDAR, industrial): £1,000–£2,500

Per-job quotes are usually cheaper than day rates for single-site work. Founding-member businesses lock in 10% off every flight for the life of their account. Read the full UK drone pilot pricing guide for a breakdown by specialism and region.