PilotLedger
Three tools handle the parts of the job that eat your evenings: winning the work, staying on schedule, and keeping the fleet legal.
Branded proposals with service scopes, deliverables, per-acre pricing, and legal disclaimers. Clients accept and e-sign straight from the email link.
Jobs, flights, invoice due dates, follow-ups, cert expirations, and maintenance, color-coded on one calendar. Drag to reschedule, click to create.
Every aircraft, battery cycle, maintenance record, and piece of equipment. Expiration alerts keep you legal, health bars tell you when batteries are done.
Desktop processing. Cloud delivery.
Process photogrammetry on your own hardware with the SkyView desktop app, then upload finished maps straight to PilotLedger. Host, view, and share orthomosaics and point clouds with your clients from the same platform that runs your business.
Plan the mission. Fly it. Log it.
Mission planning built for survey-grade work: terrain-aware flight paths, overlap and GSD targets set from the deliverable you promised, and airspace checked before you leave the shop. Flights push straight into your job sheet and logbook, so the record writes itself.
Grid, corridor, and orbit missions draped over real elevation so ground sample distance holds across the whole site.
Pick the deliverable and Flight Deck sets altitude, overlap, and GCP or RTK requirements to hit the standard you quoted.
Chain small missions into a single flight. When one finishes, the aircraft moves straight to the next instead of returning home to relaunch, so a battery covers several sites or subject areas in one go.
LAANC, TFRs, and controlled airspace checked against the plan, with weather windows and a go/no-go call for the site.
Assign aircraft, payload, batteries, and pilot per mission. Flight logs and job sheets update the moment you land.
The Fundamentals of Drone Photogrammetry, Mapping, and Survey
The definitive guide to commercial drone work: mission planning, photogrammetry workflows, LiDAR mapping, thermal inspection, RTK and PPK positioning, and the accuracy standards clients pay for. Subscribe to any paid plan for three months or more and a paperback copy ships to you free.
Stop juggling spreadsheets, generic invoicing apps, and broker platforms that take a cut. Twenty-four tools, one login, built specifically for commercial drone pilots.
Most drone pilots run their business with a quote template and a spreadsheet. PilotLedger replaces both, and everything in between, so no client ever falls through the cracks.
You didn't get your Part 107 to stare at spreadsheets. PilotLedger does the financial heavy lifting, tracking every dollar in and out, every job, every expense, so at year end you hand your accountant a clean P&L and get back to flying.
No accounting degree required. Step-by-step guidance is built into every section, and Mav, the integrated AI assistant, answers your business questions in plain language.
By pilots, for clients. Skip the middleman.
The public directory connects property owners and project managers directly with qualified commercial drone pilots. No referral fees, no commissions, no broker in between.
Run the business today. Add SkyView mapping when you need photogrammetry, hosted delivery, and storage. Every plan starts with a free 14-day trial, no credit card required, cancel anytime.
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