Maximilian Boosfeld

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the Chinese drone ban in the US is a shakeup and really not fun for many, but in the end it’s an opportunity.

Let’s look at phones in the early 2000s to unpack this:

Remember when we all had flip phones, and then blackberries and then somehow the touchscreens started, and they looked different but we all jumped to them?

We were all learning this tech on the fly because it enhanced our lives. We were even hacking different solutions and willing to leap platforms to get more capabilities.

With drones, I see this is a bit different. Folks are quite fixated on multirotors due to familiarity. Switching to something that looks or flies different might seem like a huge learning curve and leap.

The crazy thing is: the better, newer drone solutions require LESS hacking and learning and troubleshooting. In the case of Wingtra, we are focused relentlessly on bringing you a survey drone platform that’s easy to integrate into your current workflows, intuitive to share with new pilots, safe for anyone on your team to fly, reliable across your most demanding projects and scalable into the future.

Back to the phones, you know how this went: eventually, we all switched to something radically different than those flip phones and knobby keyboards. We all carry a pocket-sized screen that can help us communicate and connect, quite well.

Right now I’m asking you: are you really opening up to the advances that drone survey technology has made in the past few years? Are you sure that similar-looking drone will support you through:

-Regulations updates
-Federal projects
-Both large and small, repeat surveys
-Survey team expansion
-Business scaling
-Demands that change based on what’s possible with survey drones
-A competitive marketplace

Because the change is happening, and I want you to be as future-proof as possible through it.