Twenty years in the air. Now measuring the ground.

Originally from Switzerland, David is a commercial helicopter pilot with more than twenty years and thousands of hours of flying behind him. Two decades of looking at the world from above is the reason the operation runs the way it does: flights planned before they are flown, weather briefed honestly, and limits treated as limits.

He holds a Transport Canada Advanced Operations pilot certificate and Flight Reviewer certification, and flies on jobs across the Island.

Steve is a geomatics specialist with fifteen years in remote sensing, across field operations, data acquisition and project leadership. Eight of those years were spent as an aerial surveyor working through South, Central and North America, collecting LiDAR and ortho imagery in some genuinely difficult environments.

Most recently he was Operations Manager at a BC remote sensing research institution, overseeing airborne projects, sensor integration and data workflows. He is the reason a deliverable from us arrives in the coordinate system you asked for, classified properly, with an accuracy figure that means something.

Born and raised in Victoria, Jonathan flies and operates camera on inspection, documentation and media work. He is detail-driven to the point of being slightly irritating about it, which is exactly what you want in someone responsible for whether a defect ends up in frame.

He holds a Transport Canada Advanced Operations pilot certificate. Outside flying he works as a personal trainer and wellness coach.

Born and raised in Victoria, Kristy brings the financial and planning side. A professional accounting designation and a low tolerance for loose ends means the scheduling, the paperwork and the invoicing behave themselves — which matters more to a client than it sounds, because it is why quotes arrive when we said they would.

Outside the office she is a fitness instructor, and she shares the flying habit with David.

Moka is a very large Bernese Mountain Dog belonging to David and Kristy. He contributes to the team by way of licks, barks and unshakeable enthusiasm, and holds no certification of any kind.

He is usually in the truck. He will come along for a ride, particularly if there is a treat in it for a hard day's work.

Most drone firms are one of two things. A pilot who bought a sensor and learned processing from tutorials, or a survey technician who bought an aircraft and learned to fly it well enough. Both produce a gap, and the gap is where bad data comes from.

Here the flying is run by a twenty-year commercial helicopter pilot and the data is run by a geomatics specialist who spent eight years collecting airborne LiDAR professionally. That combination is uncommon at this scale on the Island, and it is the single strongest reason to send us a technical job.