Ruben Alcott
Chief pilot
Where we stand
Numbers you can hold against your own records.
Pulled from flight logs and settled harvest data across six seasons of contracts. If a figure cannot be traced to a grower's books, it is not on this page.
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Acres under flight
Booked across grain, tree fruit, rice and grazing ground.
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Input volume saved
Typical drop in spray load once passes follow a rate map.
0 days
Head start on trouble
Median gap between our first flag and visible symptoms.
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Slots delivered
Missions flown inside the booked window, weather holds aside.
41%
Less product going out per treated acre once the boom answers to a map rather than a timer.
Application, by the map
A blanket pass bills you for acres that were never sick.
Cover a field wall to wall and your worst corner and your cleanest strip get exactly the same treatment. On most ground that means a third of the tank lands on plants that were fine to begin with.
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Rate answers to the map
Flow climbs inside a flagged zone and drops to nothing over headlands, drains and buffer strips, without anyone touching a control.
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Nothing rolls across the soil
No tracks, no pinch rows, no compaction. In a wet spring that is often the only way a field gets treated on time at all.
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Spray stays on your side of the fence
Rotor wash pushes droplets down into the canopy, and each pass records wind speed, heading and nozzle state as it goes.
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A record worth handing over
Acre-by-acre proof of product, place and time — ready for your agronomist, your grain buyer or an organic certifier.
How a contract runs
One order of operations, followed on every farm.
Nothing gets applied to a field we have not imaged first. Skip that step and you are back to paying for chemistry on acres that were already healthy.
01
Paperwork and perimeter
Send us boundaries and this year's plan. We clear airspace, log obstructions, note the neighbours who need warning, and file the operating notice.
- Boundaries imported from any GIS
- Waivers and notices handled by us
- Buffer distances fixed in writing
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The reference flight
One full imaging pass builds the layer every later flight is compared against. Without it, week six is guesswork dressed up as data.
- 340 acres per battery cycle
- Imagery back inside six hours
- Zones ordered by severity
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The rate map
An agronomist converts the imagery into a rate file, sends it over with the reasoning written out, and nothing is loaded until you reply.
- Shapefile or ISOXML delivered
- Product and volume costed
- Approve it, or mark it up
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Apply, then confirm
The aircraft flies the map, and a follow-up pass a week later shows whether the crop actually responded. Then the cycle repeats.
- As-applied log for every acre
- Response check at 7 to 10 days
- Full season summary at harvest
Fieldline platform
Anyone can fly the aircraft. Reading it back is the job.
Every mission arrives in Fieldline as a short list of what moved since the last flight, ranked worst first — not four gigabytes of imagery for you to squint at after supper.
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Ranked by money, not by colour
Each flagged zone carries an estimated bushel loss attached, so the order of work chooses itself.
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Files your terminal already reads
Shapefile, GeoTIFF and ISOXML as standard, with direct handoff into John Deere, Trimble and Raven controllers.
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Access split field by field
Let a landlord see one quarter, or an adjuster see one storm, without opening the books on the whole operation.
NDVI 0.21
SEVERITY
0.88
Fungal pressure climbing
2.1 HA · SOUTH-EAST · TREAT IN 48 H
Nitrogen running short
6.4 HA · STRIPS 7–9 · WATCH
Stand count holding
34,100 PLANTS/AC · +2% ON PLAN
Water going down evenly
THERMAL DELTA 0.4 °C · NORMAL
Canopy vigour · last 9 flights
+12.4%
The crew
Pilots and agronomists, on the same payroll.
Every rate map is signed off by someone who has walked the crop, and every aircraft is flown by someone who holds the rating on it.
Hannah Osei
Lead agronomist
Denis Marek
Application supervisor
Sofia Lindqvist
Imagery & data
Growers on the record
Collected after the grain was sold, not after the pitch.
We ask for a review once the season is closed out and the numbers are settled. Nothing below has been edited.
What sold me was the follow-up flight. They come back a week later and show you whether the pass did anything. I had never had a service offer to be graded on its own work before.
Marcus Hale
Corn & soy · 2,800 ac
Our blocks sit on a grade nobody wants to take a sprayer onto. The crew finished the whole thing in an afternoon, and the top of the canopy came out better covered than we ever managed by hand.
Priya Raman
Orchard · 640 ac
The chemical we did not buy covered the contract before August. The surprise was the water map, which explained a patch we had been treating as disease for four straight years.
Dale Okonkwo
Rice & wheat · 5,100 ac
They flew the quarter I had written off two years ago. The report came back the same evening with a tile line marked on it, and that field is back in rotation.
Erin Vasquez
Corn · 1,450 ac
The as-applied log settled a boundary argument with a neighbour inside ten minutes. That alone was worth the season.
Tom Brandt
Wheat & canola · 3,300 ac
We used to spray on the calendar. Now we spray on the map, and the invoice for chemistry came in a third lower without a single acre going backwards.
Aisha Nwosu
Cotton · 2,100 ac
Give us the field that keeps letting you down.
We will fly it once at our cost, hand over the report in full, and leave the decision with you. Demo slots go out within ten working days right through the season.