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Professional drone guides — page 5

EU regulations, real prices, mission preparation: concrete answers before commissioning a drone service.

• Drones and Prisons: No-Fly Ban, Penalties and Regulation of a Correctional FacilityFlying a drone over a French prison is banned outright, with no exemption available to civilian operators: a site-specific no-fly zone, two separate offences, jamming equipment being rolled out. What the law says in 2026.
• Commercial Lease Inventory Report: Using a Drone to Document Roof and Facade Before a DisputeMandatory since France's 2014 Pinel law, the entry and exit inventory report for a commercial lease often hinges on a roof or facade nobody has really inspected. Method, framework and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Rooftop Fall-Arrest Anchor Lines: Using a Drone to Support the Annual Safety CheckRooftop lines of life and fall-arrest anchor points: annual verification is a legal requirement under French labour law and NF EN 795. What a drone can detect, its limits, and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Fuel Station Canopy Drone Inspection: Structure, ICPE Compliance and PricingA filling station canopy shelters the fuel islands and covers their containment area — yet no French rule requires a periodic visual check of the structure itself. What a drone survey documents, the ICPE framework (rubrique 1435), and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Vegetation Clearance Along High-Voltage Power Lines: What a Drone LiDAR Survey DocumentsA tree growing too close to a high-voltage line puts the landowner's liability on the line, with the grid operator holding a right to cut it back. What a drone LiDAR survey measures along a corridor, and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Managing vegetation on a ground-mounted solar farm by drone: monitoring, mowing, priceOvergrown grass, module shading, mowing or grazing to schedule: how drone monitoring maps vegetation on a ground-mounted solar farm and prioritises intervention zones. Method and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Storm and hail damage: mass drone surveys for insurance after a natural disasterAfter a storm or hailstorm damages hundreds of roofs at once, how insurers run a commune-wide drone survey campaign. Method, the French natural-disaster claims framework, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Drone and planning violations: what a municipality is allowed to do (and not)Undeclared pool, unauthorised extension: can a municipality send a drone to record a planning violation? What French law, case law and the CNIL say in 2026.
• Drone survey of a road accident scene for automotive experts: method, legal framework, priceDrone photogrammetry after a road accident: site survey, trajectory reconstruction, coordination with law enforcement, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• African swine fever: thermal drones to spot wild boar and audit pig farm biosecuritySearching for wild boar carcasses, aerial audits of anti-contact fencing on outdoor pig farms: two thermal drone uses against African swine fever, regulatory framework, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Annual multi-site drone contract: pooling missions instead of one quote per siteThermography, roofing, solar panels: how an annual drone framework contract pools recurring missions across multiple sites, budget and clauses to define.
• Multispectral or RGB camera on an agricultural drone: differences, uses, priceRGB or multispectral: which sensor for which agricultural mission? What each camera really detects, uses where RGB is enough, where multispectral is necessary, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Pheromone mating disruption by drone: orchards and vineyards, method and priceDeploying dispensers or spraying pheromones by drone against codling moth or the vine moth: mating-disruption principle, two methods, regulatory framework, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Wood utility pole drone inspection: rot, lean, woodpecker damage, priceHow a drone detects external rot, lean and woodpecker damage on a wooden utility pole, what it cannot replace, and 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Wind and weather: a professional drone's flight limits, when a mission is postponedAt what wind speed does a professional drone stop flying? Technical thresholds, wind's effect on data accuracy, other weather factors, how reschedules are handled, 2026 prices (excl. VAT).
• Depreciating a professional drone: tax write-off period, recoverable VAT, buying or leasingHow long to depreciate a professional drone, which VAT is recoverable, and whether to buy or lease it: the accounting and tax treatment explained for a business.
• Advertising drones with banners in France: regulation and priceFlying an advertising banner under a drone changes its regulatory category: what tips it into the specific category, the MAP/DGAC process, rigid vs towed mounting, and the budget to expect in France in 2026.
• Drone photogrammetry or terrestrial laser scanning (TLS): how to choose, priceDrone or terrestrial laser scanner for a 3D survey: accuracy, coverage, what the research shows, and compared budgets in France in 2026.
• Contact drones for industrial non-destructive testing (NDT): ultrasonic and eddy-current sensors, where the technology standsA standard drone cannot perform contact non-destructive testing. Does a new generation of contact drones (ultrasonic, eddy-current) change that? State of the art, use cases and prices in France in 2026.
• Drone photogrammetry deliverables: orthophoto, DSM/DTM, point cloud, 3D meshOrthophoto, DTM, DSM, point cloud, 3D mesh: the deliverables of a drone photogrammetry mission, their file formats, their uses, and what actually determines their accuracy.
• Flying a professional drone mission in another EU country: what's recognised, what isn't, process and priceOperator number, C0-C6 classes, STS scenarios: recognised across the whole EU. Flight zones and non-STS authorisations: specific to each state. What changes for a drone mission outside France, process and 2026 prices.