Flying Drones Hobby Turning As Career Opportunity

Flying Drones Hobby Turning As Career Opportunity- Details

With the increased popularity & scope of drones worldwide, flying drones hobby is now turning into a career opportunity in India.

In Karnataka’s, the Western Ghats on the farming fields of Vasant Bhat who is using drones for monitoring and analysing crop health on his family fields. He is also using drones to spray fungicides and herbicides when required.

Bengaluru based Vasant Bhat (age 33 years) is also the founder of a startup Trithi Robotics and is now hiring drone pilots.

Vasant Bhat in a recent press release informed that drones reduce the quantity of chemicals used to spray on fields just because it sprays only on the area where required.

Vasant Bhat also informed that he uses a drone to spray chemicals to cover 12-13 acres of land in a single day, which doesn’t require any extra human laboring efforts to work.

According to the report, there are approx 40,000 UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in India, and the bulk of them are privately owned. Drones are often used for everything from shooting ads and photographing weddings to tracking poachers, mapping railway tracks, surveying solar plants and for military and police surveillance.

According to the report, it is believed that a drone pilot can get a salary of Rs 30,000 to Rs 40,000 per month even an experienced freelancer can make approx Rs 5 lakh per month.

In India, there are no rules or guidelines been formed for drones, it is still illegal to fly drones without the approval of local authorities and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). There are no government-approved courses for licenses. In 2017, DGCA had proposed draft guidelines for UAVs.