WHY AEROVIS
The standards behind the company.
THE FOUNDING
Twenty years in military aviation taught me something about standards that most industries seem to have forgotten. There is nothing celebratory about having them. There is nothing to gain by having them. They are the minimum of how one should behave. The only outcome for not having them is catastrophe.
I started AeroVis after spending two decades operating to that minimum, and then finding myself in a situation where the standards around me were lower than the ones I had spent my career earning. That was the moment I had a choice: compromise, or build. I chose to build. AeroVis was capitalized with my own capital and no clients on the books, because the drone industry needs operators who treat the minimum as the minimum.
THE FLOOR
A Part 107 license is a 60-question online exam. The minimum age is 16. There is no flight requirement, no demonstrated proficiency, no prior aviation experience needed. Most people pass it in two weekends of study. That is the floor. It is essentially getting your driver's license. It does not make you a professional race car driver, and it does not make someone a professional drone operator. There are over a million Part 107 holders in the United States today. That tells you how low the floor is, not how qualified the industry is.
The exam covers regulations, airspace, weather, and operating rules, but only at the level you would expect from a multiple-choice test. Recognizing a definition is not the same as operating in the conditions it describes. And the exam does not even attempt to cover the things that actually determine whether a mission gets done well: how to plan and execute the workflow for the job, how to choose the right drone for the mission, how to use the software that turns raw imagery into a usable deliverable, and how to integrate with a client's process so they actually get what they need. None of that is on the exam. All of it is the difference between someone who can legally fly a drone and someone you should actually trust to fly one over your project.
THE PRACTICE
The way AeroVis operates is not complicated. We logically apply standards to processes. We are not emotional about collecting data or about operating in the field. We are pragmatic. Are the conditions good, yes or no. Is the mission within our standards, yes or no. There is no romance to any of it. The rules keep us safe and the rules keep us calculated. That is what twenty years of aviation teaches you. Flying is not the moment of inspiration. Flying is the moment everything you prepared for is tested.
If this is the kind of operator you want flying your project, the next step is simple.
HEAR IT DIRECTLY FROM KEVIN
"There's nothing stronger than people being connected over an idea, over a vision."
AeroVis is built on that belief … A team that is here because they want to be, united by a shared standard and a commitment to doing this work the right way.