Commercial drone operations for inspection and survey. CAAM authorisation in Malaysia, BVLOS, flare stack and confined space use cases, and how aerial inspection compares with rope access and scaffolding on both cost and risk.
The regulator decides whether you may fly. The client’s contracts department decides whether you may work. Operators who confuse the two arrive fully compliant and still lose the job. By MarineCraft Journal · 26 October 2026 · 9 mins read 14working days’ notice for a CAAM flight approval application 48 hrsthe reporting … Read more
Inside a tank there is no satellite signal, no ambient light and nowhere to land. What a drone removes from that job is real and substantial. What it does not remove is the reason most tank inspections exist. By MarineCraft Journal · 23 October 2026 · 9 mins read No GPSposition held … Read more
A shutdown removes the atmosphere that makes a drone dangerous. Flying a live process area does not, and no amount of procedure converts a standard aircraft into equipment that belongs there. By MarineCraft Journal · 22 October 2026 · 9 mins read 0 / 1 / 2gas zones, defined by how often … Read more
Flying a drone legally and being accepted to inspect an asset are two different permissions, granted by two different authorities. Pilots who hold only the first keep discovering, at the gate, that it was never the qualification the job required. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins read Two … Read more
Flying a drone along a hundred kilometres of pipeline, or out to an offshore platform, means flying it where the pilot cannot see it. That single step, beyond visual line of sight, is where casual drone work ends and a formal safety case begins. Here is what regulators, including Malaysia’s, actually require.
Methane is invisible, worth money, and a powerful greenhouse gas. Regulators and buyers no longer accept an estimate of how much is leaking. They want it measured, at the source, and verifiable, and drones are becoming the tool that makes that possible.
