Kittyhawk Shares Insights on Most Popular Drone Models

As a part of Kittyhawk’s new Insights collection, the staff is delving into knowledge from three years of drone flights utilizing its platform to attempt to work out what “normal” appears to be like like.

Information from single pilots, large-scale enterprises and every thing in between is being sifted via to reply a few of the drone trade’s basic questions.

The Drone Industry’s Most Popular Drone Models

Hot off the press is Kittyhawk’s newest report. The focus is on the Most Popular Drone Models.

To an extent, the outcomes had been what we anticipated. The record of hottest drones is dominated by DJI. In truth, DJI drones make up an unlimited 71.eight% of Kittyhawk’s database – eerily comparable numbers to the SkyLogic report late final 12 months, which recommended DJI has a 72% maintain of the drone hardware market throughout all value factors.

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For us, essentially the most stunning stat is the overwhelming dominance of the Mavic Pro. It’s managed to seek out that delicate steadiness between value and functionality, making up 21.83% of the Kittyhawk database. Its nearest rival is the DJI Phantom four, down at 9.56%.

Now that new iterations of the Mavic Pro have hit the market, you may count on that dominance to subside as 2018 goes on. Particularly if a brand new Mavic Pro is launched. Or it might even go the opposite method: additional value slides of the Mavic Pro may make it much more interesting for pilots, notably as the potential stays rock strong.

It could be fascinating to chart Kittyhawk’s numbers to see how they fluctuate alongside product releases and bulletins from DJI, that’s for certain.

Aside from DJI’s dominance, the 3D Robotics Solo was the preferred drone not from DJI, with 1.73% of the database. Unlike the Mavic Pro, this trajectory is barely heading in a single course.

The Yuneec Typhoon H got here in at #12, with 1.32%.

Joshua Ziering, Kittyhawk’s co-founder and chief pilot, writes that he’s assured “the $1000 price point will continue to mature in the commercial space and be the de-facto standard we use in the future.”

“As I’ve noted before,” he mentioned, “drones are coming in-house. When a company is buying 100, or even 1000 of a particular drone, the price point really does matter. $200 delta in price per unit becomes very material at scale, particularly when the capabilities are all starting to be “good enough” to justify a business drone program in-house.”

We’re trying ahead to the subsequent batch of insights, notably given the quantity of telemetry knowledge Kitttyhawk will need to have on file.