PilotLedger
Three tools handle the parts of the job that eat your evenings: winning the work, staying on schedule, and keeping the fleet legal.
Branded proposals with service scopes, deliverables, per-acre pricing, and legal disclaimers. Clients accept and e-sign straight from the email link.
Jobs, flights, invoice due dates, follow-ups, cert expirations, and maintenance, color-coded on one calendar. Drag to reschedule, click to create.
Every aircraft, battery cycle, maintenance record, and piece of equipment. Expiration alerts keep you legal, health bars tell you when batteries are done.
Desktop processing. Cloud delivery.
Turn drone data into maps, measurements, inspections, and client deliverables. Process photogrammetry on your own hardware, analyze terrain and imagery, and prepare CAD linework and reports in SkyView. Publish finished maps and point clouds straight to PilotLedger for private client viewing and sharing.
Create orthomosaics, point clouds, and textured 3D meshes from drone imagery on your own hardware.
Build DEMs, DSMs, DTMs, TIN surfaces, and contours. Measure stockpile volumes and cut/fill, with DXF and LandXML surface exports.
View, align, merge, clean, and manually classify point clouds. Measure distances, areas, and profiles.
Extract building and canopy features, trace and edit 2D or 3D linework, and export DXF deliverables for CAD.
Compare site visits and track progress. Review completed 360° panoramas, photos, and video paths from the map.
Explore radiometric temperature data, flag and review solar findings, and create inspection reports from supported imagery.
Analyze NDVI, NDRE, GNDVI, and LCI layers, view color-infrared imagery, and assess canopy and vegetation with reports.
Publish maps and point clouds to private PilotLedger projects, share client access, and export branded reports and GIS/CAD files.
Thermal and multispectral workflows require compatible source imagery and appropriate calibration.
Plan the mission. Fly it. Log it.
Mission planning built for survey-grade work: terrain-aware flight paths, overlap and GSD targets set from the deliverable you promised, and airspace checked before you leave the shop. Flights push straight into your job sheet and logbook, so the record writes itself.
Grid, corridor, and orbit missions draped over real elevation so ground sample distance holds across the whole site.
Pick the deliverable and Flight Deck sets altitude, overlap, and GCP or RTK requirements to hit the standard you quoted.
Chain small missions into a single flight. When one finishes, the aircraft moves straight to the next instead of returning home to relaunch, so a battery covers several sites or subject areas in one go.
LAANC, TFRs, and controlled airspace checked against the plan, with weather windows and a go/no-go call for the site.
Assign aircraft, payload, batteries, and pilot per mission. Flight logs and job sheets update the moment you land.
PilotLedger and SkyView are designed and developed in Springdale, Arkansas, by American commercial drone pilots. Our field experience shapes the tools we build.
The Fundamentals of Drone Photogrammetry, Mapping, and Survey
The definitive guide to commercial drone work: mission planning, photogrammetry workflows, LiDAR mapping, thermal inspection, RTK and PPK positioning, and the accuracy standards clients pay for. Subscribe to any paid plan for three months or more and a paperback copy ships to you free.
Stop juggling spreadsheets, generic invoicing apps, and broker platforms that take a cut. Twenty-four tools, one login, built specifically for commercial drone pilots.
Most drone pilots run their business with a quote template and a spreadsheet. PilotLedger replaces both, and everything in between, so no client ever falls through the cracks.
You didn't get your Part 107 to stare at spreadsheets. PilotLedger does the financial heavy lifting, tracking every dollar in and out, every job, every expense, so at year end you hand your accountant a clean P&L and get back to flying.
No accounting degree required. Step-by-step guidance is built into every section, and Mav, the integrated AI assistant, answers your business questions in plain language.
By pilots, for clients. Skip the middleman.
The public directory connects property owners and project managers directly with qualified commercial drone pilots. No referral fees, no commissions, no broker in between.
Your business. Your imagery. One workspace.
SkyView Desktop launches October 12, 2026. Approximately 50 pilots will field-test SkyView in a private beta before launch. Start a 14-day business trial with no credit card. Pre-launch Desktop access requires beta approval and an assigned SkyView license.
Recommended for individual pilots
$99/month
Or $990/year · two months free
Your whole operation
$159/month
Or $1,590/year · two months free
Your whole operation
Let’s talk
For larger operations with custom requirements.
SkyView adds $30/month for an individual pilot or $40/month for a team compared with business-only plans.
Create a profile when you are ready. You decide whether to publish it.
Quotes, clients, scheduling, fleet management, and invoicing for your operation.
Business tools
$69/month
Or $690/year · two months free
Business tools
$119/month
Or $1,190/year · two months free
Business tools
Let’s talk
For larger operations with custom requirements.
Your quotes, invoices, client lists, and financial records belong entirely to you. We never access, view, sell, or share your business data. Not for advertising, not for training AI. Encrypted, protected, and 100% under your control.
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