
ABOUT THAMES VALLEY DRONES
Sussex-based Thames Valley Drones was established in 2015 specifically to offer dedicated & professional drone-based aerial photography, filming and surveys to the following sectors: residential, developer, estate agency, commercial, structural, architectural, industrial, public, civil engineering, agricultural, land agents, historic, archaeological, land & property.
With offices in Horsham, we operate routinely across the following geographic areas: Berkshire,Thames Valley, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire. We also offer bespoke services for specific projects nationally.
This is all our company does, along with the relevant supporting digital & creative services, of course. These include video editing / production / stills photography / design for digital or print. We don't operate in any other areas so our focus is entirely on the aerial photography, film & surveys we deliver for our clients.
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Professional training & accreditation
Working from our Sussex base, all Thames Valley Drones, our pilots are fully trained under the recent GVC-PDRA-01 rather than the general sub 250g classification (for Small Unmanned Aircraft (BNUC-S™) for Visual Line of Sight Operations (VLOS)); commissioned by the UK CAA, which covers fixed, rotary and multi-rotor systems.
In addition all our pilots have attained the Sub 20 kg, CAA Operational Authorisation which is renewed annually. This allows us to fly enterprise-class drones for the survey end of our client base. & operate to the highest standards.
This autohrisation also includes a rating for night flights (in accordance with our CAA approved Operations Manual) enabling us to offer clients photography & filming at night ie where night is classified as 30 mins after and 30 mins before sunset / sunrise.
We also carry third party liability insurance < £10m - depending on the size of the project we are working on.
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For our construction clients we also have pilots with a CSCS Health & Safety & Environment for Operatives accreditation which means that construction clients fine it easier to put our pilots through the construction firm's own Health & Safety programme therefore allowing our pilots to work on live construction / CSCS controlled sites.