Industrial Drone Inspections · Geelong, VIC
Miles Away Aerial provides CASA-certified drone inspection, thermal capture, mapping and practical asset documentation across Geelong, the Bellarine and Victoria. Led by a Petroleum Engineer with offshore and heavy-industry field experience, the work is built around safe access, clear scope and usable reporting.
CASA RePL & ReOC certified
Petroleum Engineer · MIEAust
BOSIET · MSIC
$20M public liability insured
Engineering perspective
Miles Away Aerial provides CASA-certified industrial drone inspection with an engineering perspective. The technical foundation is 15+ years inside Australian heavy industry — exploration drilling, P&A campaigns and offshore field operations — with drone work integrated into field operations since 2015.
The service is founder-led and intentionally focused: scope, capture, process, report. Inspection data is structured for client and engineering review rather than aerial-photography presentation, with deliverables formatted to fit your asset-management workflow.
Core Services
Every service is built around one outcome: deliverables your engineering team can use. Below are our core service lines. Each links to a dedicated page with scope details, deliverables, equipment and industry use-cases.
Visual capture for tanks, vessels, structures, conveyors, stacks, façades, pipelines and mechanical assets — built for shutdown planning support and asset documentation workflows. Includes radiometric thermal capture, 3D digital twins for complex assets, and offshore O&G capability.
Capture for ports, jetties, wharves, seawalls, breakwaters and coastal infrastructure — repeatable inspection captures for corrosion and erosion tracking.
Drone-mounted LiDAR for bare-earth modelling, corridor mapping and structural geometry, paired with RTK / PPK photogrammetric mapping for orthomosaics, stockpile volumes, contours and repeatable site records. LAS / LAZ / DXF / GeoTIFF outputs for CAD workflows.
Sector focus
Offshore platforms, onshore drilling, processing facilities, pipelines, flare stacks, tank farms.
Wharves, breakwaters, seawalls, jetties, navigation aids.
Plant structures, vessels, bridges, towers, retaining walls, council assets.
Stockpile volumetrics, pit walls, haul roads, rehabilitation monitoring.
Why drone inspection
Can reduce reliance on rope access, scaffolding or EWPs for suitable visual inspection scopes. Sensors capture useful data from managed standoff positions.
Many visual captures can be planned around live operations, subject to site controls, permits and approvals.
Captures built for repeat inspection — same flight plan, same coverage, comparable year-on-year.
Flare stacks, undersides of decks, tall façades, transmission spans — drones can capture geometry that is costly or difficult to access by conventional methods.
Deliverable
Drone survey point cloud of the Bells Beach coastline. Pan, rotate and zoom through the full dataset — the same deliverable your project receives.
Service Areas
Local mobilisation across the Geelong industrial corridor, the Bellarine, Surf Coast and Greater Melbourne. Interstate and offshore deployment for technical campaigns.
Methodology
Agree the asset, objective and deliverable format.
CASA flight plan, JSAs and permits coordinated via AVCRM.
Permit-aligned fieldwork to the agreed scope.
Photogrammetry, LiDAR and thermal processed in-house.
Observation register and condition summary structured for client or engineer review.
Deliverables
You aren't paying for raw drone footage. You're paying for organised asset documentation — formatted, annotated, geo-located where useful and structured for your maintenance system.
Start an enquiry
Share the asset, the objective, the access constraints and the timeframe. You'll receive a clear quote and methodology — typically same business day.
