Most drone companies are one pilot and a marketing site. Productions find out which is which on the day.
A shoot that crosses the causeway crosses a permitting jurisdiction: Miami Beach runs its own process separate from Miami-Dade, with its own rules for aerial work. A drone company that treats South Florida as one permit area will get a unit stopped.
CineDrones has been a working aerial department since 2013, with the depth to put multiple units on a show and the insurance and permitting infrastructure a studio production office needs before it can hire you at all. We handle it end to end: airspace authorization, permits, the shoot itself, and delivery in whatever format post is expecting.
Miami-Dade coordinates county film permitting, and the City of Miami Beach runs its own separate process with its own rules for aerial work. A shoot that crosses the causeway crosses a permitting jurisdiction.
Miami International anchors Class B across the metro, with Fort Lauderdale and Opa-locka adding their own airspace to the north. The beach corridor everyone wants sits under the busiest of it. Add hurricane-season temporary restrictions and a marine layer that moves fast, and the planning window here is genuinely shorter than producers expect.
We shoot South Beach, the causeways, Brickell, and the water — and we travel. CineDrones works nationwide, so if your production is basing in Miami and shooting somewhere else entirely, that is a normal week for us.
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