"Drones are useful for all works" |Trade

The drones have come to stay, there is no doubt.Beyond their recreational uses, these devices offer a long list of profits that facilitate work to companies of virtually any sector.Its many advantages make in Asturias more and more those who decide to learn to direct them and also those who bet on dedicating themselves professionally to exploit their multiple options.

This is the case of Donasurias, a company that was born in 2014, when this guild was still taking its first steps."We saw that every time I was going to go and decided to throw ourselves," explains one of his partners, David Rodríguez."We were from the first operating companies in Asturias with pilots regulated by the State Air Security Agency," he adds.Since then, and seven years have passed, they have done the most varied jobs that have led them to fly over all kinds of landscapes."We monitor audiovisual works and services for producers throughout Spain," he says."We have worked for programs such as 'The Point of Look' and for the news of Telecinco and TVE, among others, and we also work for great film directors," he lists.

That is thanks to the fact that drones offer for movies, series and documentaries, some options that, otherwise, would virtually be impossible.«We can make recordings for audiovisuals that were previously unthinkable.Now, we could be following the face of a person and end a great general image of an entire city.All of that done in a sequence plane, ”he says.

It is a service that is also booming because companies and individuals "increasingly demand it more".It is logical, taking into account that drones "allow you to lower many costs.For example, before in the works a helicopter had to be hired to track road and we do the same for much less money and, above all, less time, ”he says.

Something that Abel Quirós, Alphadrones, another firm defender of the many advantages of these unnimorated flying objects coincides.«Hiring a helicopter could cost you 3.000 euros and a drone, 200 ».And they not only serve for the works, they also allow the modernization.

So not everything is cinema and construction."Within the audiovisual we do, there are numerous applications, also agriculture," he exemplifies."Right now, many uses are being given and they are reaching all fields, for example, they serve to collect wastewater samples," he continues.A long list of uses enhanced by their size and stability: «They reach places where the human could not arrive and are very safe.They can even get into pipes ».

To all those applications they already have, Abel believes that many others could be added."An idea that I saw long ago is that they could serve to move a defibrillator to the place where it is needed," he says.If this was achieved, these little devices could even save lives.And, in addition to that great utility, perhaps, they end up replacing the motorcycles and distribution vans: "There are already many messaging companies working hat how to adapt them to make their shipments".

Perhaps, within not much time, let's see them in our cities regularly.This is at least think of Donasurias: «They will be increasing...They will also serve for facial recognition and we will see them flying in swarms, ”he adds.

For Dani Álvarez, by Play Drone, "the possibilities are endless".So much, that he has numerous services carried out with a lot.Even if it is striking, that's how many bride and groom who decide to hire this service to escape from traditional photo albums.Tomorrow, there will be a few marriages that can remember their wedding also in bird's view.

Of course: so that the drones have a future is needed a stable regulatory frame that does not give banks as has happened so far.«The changes of the regulations are constant and very fast.Every two years you have to adapt to the novelties, ”explains Manuel Antonio Díaz, by Falcon Air Academy.He knows well what he's talking about because, in his classrooms, many drone drivers have formed, since 2014 who began to teach this course.

The new standard has brought a fundamental change that has made Spain governed by the same orders as the rest of Europe.«The new regulation is at European level, so that a pilot who is formed here is being formed in all the countries of our continent.Until last year, we governed by national rules, ”explains Díaz.

Now, it forces all those who fly to have to be registered.That is, if the device weighs more than 250 grams or carries a chamber and if its owner is over fourteen, it must register in the State Air Security Agency.In addition, you are required that you have done a course, "whether for professional or recreational use".It is not so if the drone weighs less than 250 grams and is a toy without a camera.

For Donasurias, "it is necessary to always regulate, but not only on paper" and believe that it is already able to "inform the State Security Forces the current regulations so that they know how to proceed when they see someone flying a drone.They must apply the corresponding sanctions if they are doing it illegally », they explain."Anyone can go to the shopping center on duty, buy one and start using it without any permit or license, throwing prices and flying where, normally, professionals see them and wish to do so".

With the desire for a stable future, these companies know that their profits are more than demonstrated and that, in addition, they will increase.At the moment, it only remains for society to start seeing them as a novelty and accepting that they will gain more importance over time.

Who knows if they will travel the cities of a not so distant future with the same normality with which they now do motorcycles, cars and cast vans.It only remains to wait.Time will issue a sentence.