Features
Thermal inspections when the signal is strongest.
Roof leaks, missing insulation, and electrical heat anomalies show up clearest in the pre-dawn hours after the building has cooled. Night-ops slots are when we catch what a noon flight smears.
At a glance
Roof leaks, missing insulation, and electrical heat anomalies show up clearest in the pre-dawn hours after the building has cooled. Night-ops slots are when we catch what a noon flight smears.
Why pre-dawn for thermal
Thermal contrast
In the pre-dawn hours, your roof has spent six to ten hours radiating heat back to the sky. A patch that's still warm at 5am is warm because something underneath it is still warm: wet insulation, an active leak, an electrical hotspot. The surrounding cold roof makes the warm patch jump off the screen. A noon flight smears that contrast with solar heat on the surface.
Stable air
Pre-dawn air is cold and still. The drone holds position better, the thermal frame has less atmospheric noise, and GPS lock is rock solid. Inspection flights at noon fly through thermal updrafts off the roof; pre-dawn flights don't.
Nobody in frame
No one is working on the house, no kids walking through the shot, no contractors on the neighbor's roof. The flight gets done in one window without re-runs and the report doesn't have to redact anyone.
What it requires
Customer-not-onsite consent
Because we fly before sunrise, you don't need to be at the property. We send you the flight window the day before, you confirm we have access (driveway, gate code, dog status), and we let you sleep through it. The deliverable lands in your portal by the time you wake up.
Anti-collision lights
Every airframe runs FAA-compliant anti-collision lights for night ops. The lights are visible at three statute miles per Part 107 §107.29. You can watch us from the window if you'd rather; the launch checklist refuses to release the aircraft without confirming the lights are on.
Part 107 night authorization
Our pilot certificate carries the post-2021 night-operations authorization. Every night flight gets logged against that credential and the airspace gets checked the night before; if a TFR went up after we agreed on a window, we reschedule.
What's in your deliverable
A pre-dawn radiometric thermal pass and the 100MP wide-RGB pass for cross-reference, the standard AI-read report with thermal findings cross-projected onto the visible roof, and — if you'd like the cinema reel — the signature five-shot sequence captured at first light, an extra fifteen minutes after the inspection itself.
The twilight LUT applies automatically when the slot is night-ops; everything else in the deliverable is the same as a daytime flight. Signed PDF, hashed assets, audit row, four-hour turnaround.