Operator profileChief Remote Pilot
Twenty-six years of getting to hard places and coming back with an accurate account.
Elevated Imagery is one operator. The person who quotes the job is the person who attends the site, flies the aircraft, writes the report and signs it. There is no subcontractor between you and the record.
The report is the product.
Aerial photography is commoditised. Anyone can buy an aircraft and fly a roof. What is not commoditised is the discipline underneath the camera: a record that holds up when somebody disputes it.
That discipline is a trade, and it is the one I was trained in. Reconnaissance is structured observation under time pressure, in country that does not cooperate, returning with a report a commander can act on. Observe rather than assume; record precisely; write it so it survives scrutiny afterwards.
The same sentence describes a roof condition report, a storm damage file and a pre-season baseline.
Current and held
- CASA ReOC 9231, Aerial Work, to 30 June 2029
- Nominated Chief Remote Pilot
- Remote Pilot Licence
- Aeronautical Radio Operator Certificate
- Public liability insurance
- RPAS operations manual, JSA and SWMS library
The Chief Remote Pilot appointment is the part worth understanding. It is the accountable position on the certificate: the person CASA holds responsible for how the operation is run. It is why this business holds its own operating certificate rather than flying under someone else’s.
The stack.
- Service
Australian Defence Force
An ADF background. The habits stayed: observe rather than assume, record precisely, and report so someone else can act on it.
- Aviation
Security in the aviation space
Internal security work in aviation, in areas of conflict, delivering high-level communications and information when it was needed.
- Private sector
Defence contractor, intelligence work
A move into the private sector as a defence contractor, doing intelligence work: turning raw information and imagery into a written account someone else can rely on. That is the same deliverable as a contested claim.
- Education
Two degrees
Bachelor of Social Science, Security and Counter Terrorism, 2021. Bachelor of Business, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2019.
- Since 2021
Elevated Imagery
Built from zero in 2021. No investors, no franchise, no call centre. It started on the jobs where a missed detail costs real money: substations and live electrical assets, bridges, power lines and buildings. Then it went where the stakes are higher still, into search and rescue.
Today all of that points at one thing: the record that still stands when somebody disputes it. Licensed by CASA (ReOC 9231), run to an operations manual, standing procedures and airspace authorisations, with a risk assessment before every flight. No regulatory findings. No reportable occurrences.
And it is one person, start to finish. The person who answers your call scopes the job, flies the site, processes every frame, writes the report and sends the invoice. Nothing gets lost in a handover, because there isn’t one. The name on the report is the name that was on site.
Based where the work is.
Mission Beach, Far North Queensland, between Innisfail and Cardwell. Coverage runs Cairns to Gladstone by road.
That location is a commercial fact, not a lifestyle one. When a system crosses the coast, the firms that need documentation are in Sydney and Brisbane and their people are on aeroplanes. I am already here, and I do not bill mobilisation from a capital city.
The short version. An ADF background. Security work in aviation, in areas of conflict. Intelligence work as a defence contractor. Two degrees. A CASA operating certificate with my name on it as Chief Remote Pilot. One person, on your site, who writes it down properly.
One person, on your site, who writes it down properly.
Address, property type, what you need documented and who is paying. That is enough for a fixed price in one reply.