Aerial Footage of Your Site, Legally Flown
Storimatic Studio produces drone video for construction, industrial and commercial businesses in Calgary. Progress documentation, project showcases and aerial coverage as part of a larger film, flown under an advanced licence and planned around your site's safety rules.
Calgary Sites From the Air
The View That Stops the Scroll
Aerial openings are the cheapest way to hold someone past the first second, which is why most of these start in the air.
Three Things Only an Aerial Shows
Show the thing that photos cannot
A site plan is abstract and a ground-level photo is a fence. From 90 metres a viewer finally understands how big the build is and where it sits.
Document a build that keeps changing
The same flight path, flown monthly, produces a record of the project that a client, a lender or a marketing team can all use.
Footage that cannot be faked
Anyone can license a stock aerial. Nobody can license one of your site, with your cranes, on the day you poured.
Half the Quotes You Get Cannot Legally Fly Your Site
Canada licenses drone pilots in two categories, and the difference decides whether a flight over your site is legal at all. It is worth asking before you compare prices, because a cheaper quote from someone who cannot fly there is not a cheaper quote.
Most operators hold a basic RPAS certificate. It permits flight in uncontrolled airspace only, away from bystanders, and not near an airport.
Required to fly in controlled airspace, near people, and close to an aerodrome. Storimatic holds an advanced RPAS licence certified by Transport Canada.
A large part of the city sits inside controlled airspace around YYC. A basic-certificate operator cannot legally fly much of it, with or without your permission.
Six Reasons Calgary Businesses Put a Drone Up
Construction progress
Monthly flights on a fixed path, so the build reads as one continuous record rather than a folder of unrelated clips.
Project and development showcase
The finished site in its context: access, surroundings, scale, and what the neighbourhood actually looks like.
Yards, plants and facilities
Equipment yards, batch plants and industrial facilities shot so a prospect grasps the operation in ten seconds.
Real estate and land
Acreage, lots and commercial property, including boundaries and approach that a ground photo cannot convey.
Inspection support
Roofs, structures and hard-to-reach elevations photographed without scaffolding or a lift.
Events from above
Groundbreakings, openings and site milestones, cut into the wider event coverage.
Airspace First, Camera Second
Airspace before anything else
The first question is not what it should look like, it is whether we can legally fly it. We check the airspace over your site, and where authorization is needed we file it before the date goes in the calendar.
You getConfirmation the flight is legal, before you commit to a dateA flight plan your safety officer can sign
Site hazards, overhead lines, the crew working below, an emergency landing area. The plan is written down and shared with your general contractor rather than improvised on arrival.
You getA written flight plan, proof of licence and insurance on fileFly it, then fly it the same way again
Cinematic passes for the film, plus a repeatable path if the project is being documented over time. The second visit flies the first visit's route, which is what makes progress footage line up.
You getThe graded aerial footage plus the logged flight pathWhat Changes at 90 Metres
| What you need | From the ground | From a drone |
|---|---|---|
| Showing the scale of a site | A ground photo, or a site plan | One pass at 90 metres |
| Documenting monthly progress | Photos from wherever someone stood | The same flight path, every visit |
| Reaching a roof or high elevation | Scaffolding or a boom lift | A ten minute flight |
| Cost of a single aerial | A helicopter charter | A drone and a licensed pilot |
| Flying inside Calgary's controlled airspace | Not permitted on a basic certificate | Permitted under an advanced licence |
| Paperwork a general contractor asks for | Usually none available | Licence, insurance and a flight log |
Anyone can license a stock aerial. Nobody can license one of your site, on the day you poured.
Drone Video, Answered
01Are you licensed to fly commercially in Canada?+
Yes. Founder Jared Ho holds an advanced RPAS licence certified by Transport Canada. Advanced is the category required to fly in controlled airspace, near bystanders and close to an aerodrome, which covers most commercial work inside Calgary.
02Can you fly over my site if it is near the airport?+
Usually, but not automatically. Airspace near YYC requires authorization before the flight, and that is arranged ahead of the shoot rather than on the day. Tell us the address on the call and we will tell you what is involved before you book anything.
03What paperwork can you give our general contractor?+
Proof of licence, proof of liability insurance and a written flight plan for the site, plus a flight log afterwards. Safety officers ask for these and it is quicker if they arrive before the first visit rather than after the question.
04Can you fly indoors or inside a structure?+
Indoor flight sits outside the airspace rules, so it comes down to the space itself: clearance, obstacles and who is working below. We will look at the space and tell you honestly whether it is worth flying or whether a gimbal on the ground gets a better shot.
05What happens if the weather is wrong on the day?+
We do not fly in conditions that make the footage poor or the flight unsafe, which in Calgary usually means wind. Weather calls are made the morning of, and a postponed flight is rescheduled at no additional cost.
06Can drone footage be part of a larger video?+
That is how most of it is used. Aerial work is usually one layer of a construction, corporate or event film rather than a standalone deliverable, and it is planned into the shoot day rather than added later.
07Do you work outside Calgary?+
Yes. Storimatic Studio shoots across Alberta including Airdrie, Cochrane, Okotoks, Chestermere, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Canmore, Banff and Edmonton. Travel outside Calgary is quoted up front, and airspace is checked for each location.
Send Us the Address. We'll Check the Airspace.
Before anything else is discussed we will tell you whether your site can be flown, what authorization it needs and how long that takes. No charge and no obligation, because it is the question that decides everything after it.