Zeitview Pilot

Such a pointless app. Unless you live in the same city as the job it’s not worth it. They severely undercut the drone operators while they do the easy work and make 10x as much as you do. Start paying pilots more!!

The owners Zeitview appear to be completely asleep at the wheel. I booked a flight through the app. The instructions were somewhat vague and there were several instances of conflicting information. I made several attempts to contact Zeitview for clarification, but no one could be bothered to respond. Additionally, this company appears to charge the clients astronomical rates and pays almost nothing out to the pilots who are actually doing the work. The example photos show rates to the pilots at $300+. When, in reality, you’ll be lucky to be offered anything more than $100 for several hours worth of work.

Accrpted a job with extra complications (no LAANC possible w/o special authorization), only to get cancelled the night before. Then the same job was offered a week later. Accepted it again, wasted three hours with travel to find aggressive birds and poor GPS precision (half block off) due to highrises made the job not feasible. Reported it back, all I got were automated pushy "it's time to upload the pictures" e-mails and mindless operator responses. They don't care about you, they only care about finding lots of drone enthusiasts they can abuse to make money.

Once this was good, but now after 4 years, the amount of money they pay for missions, and how often they require the pilot to do it all over and then not pay the amount offered has caused me to stop flying for this outfit. Holdout pilots, don’t accept the missions until they pay what it’s worth, usually 3x’s what they initially offer. Seriously, don’t be cheap, they’re making a fortune on your efforts and continue to make it more difficult to get paid.

After doing all the suggested troubleshooting from Zeitview still can’t connect. Still can’t get support from anybody at the company. Vague general answers from the support from a different Philippine person every time too.

As a pilot trying to complete uploading my first gig/mission for this service it’s mostly a waste of time as it wouldn’t let me complete the upload of my last image in order to submit it neither in the app nor on their website and when I click on certain tabs like contact it doesn’t even work. Not even a phone number to get real time help! One of the absolute worst apps out there. It looks like it was developed in a hurry and by amateurs. Avoid this app at all costs until it gets seriously overhauled.

The app is pretty cool, however the procedure they have started following is horrible. They pushed a mission out for $140, after I accepted the mission, it changed to $70 and changed the fly time. I had reached out to them about the difference and they said it was a “technical error” meaning they messed up. I was still willing to do the mission but had requested it have the original date. They confirmed that the mission got rescheduled to the original date. I had to drive 45 min to do the mission. When I went to “check in” for the mission it wasn’t there in the app, but since they said they were having “technical difficulties” I had figured something was wrong, and continued to fly. I should mention I did reach out to them about the mission not being in the app anymore before flying and they didn’t respond, so since I had the location and shot list, I flew it. Come to find out, they had cancelled the mission without notifying me, and when I finally got a hold of them, they tried to putting it all back on me. Once I showed them all the email proof that they confirmed the mission for me and there was no correspondence about it being cancelled they stopped replying and did t pay me anything for the travel. Honestly I get drone jobs by myself as much as they put out, and I charge around $250 for the same jobs these guys are paying $70 for. If you’re really needing money, or just doing it as a hobby, it’s great, but if you want to make some money, honestly just post on social you do drone work, and you can triple you’re income and cut out the middle man.

In six months it has never sent me a job alert. I even put the range at 500 miles from the major city I live in. Don’t bother.

I have been with them since 2017. They definitely have changed. I used to make 150 for the same job they pay 70 now. It’s over saturated I know but the fact that they don’t reward the long standing pilots. The jobs are only sent to a select few. The ones that don’t ask questions. I you have a dispute with someone from the company good luck with ever seeing a notification for a job. It’s sad because I liked the owners in the beginning but money and greed changes people. New pilots. Go elsewhere. Droners.io pays more still for our skills.

After finishing creating my profile I was so excited to start working and started waiting for my first job to pop up. It has been over 4 months and haven’t been sent any tasks and have contacted support twice about it and never got any responses back as if I’m being ignored. Don’t waist your time the very few amount of jobs I get off Droners.io is more then what I’ve been able to find here. Their pilots make an average of $60K not from her they ain’t.