Tom M.

Miles Away Aerial is a CASA-certified drone inspection and aerial survey business based in Ocean Grove, Victoria, servicing clients across Victoria.

What sets us apart is the background behind the controls. Founder Tom Miles is a Petroleum Engineer with 15 years in the oil and gas industry — a sector where precision, documentation, and getting it right the first time are non-negotiable. That same standard carries into every job: you get structured condition assessments, annotated defect reports, and deterioration ratings formatted for asset management systems, not raw footage you have to interpret yourself.

We specialise in assets that are difficult to access, structurally complex, or subject to accelerated deterioration — seawalls, jetties, bridges, drainage structures, retaining walls, cell towers, and industrial plant.

Operating under ReOC No. 9647, all flights are conducted in full compliance with Australian civil aviation regulations. Our equipment includes the DJI M350 RTK platform with interchangeable payloads covering high-resolution visual, 30x optical zoom, Certified thermal imaging, LiDAR point cloud capture, and 45MP photogrammetric survey — matched to what the job actually requires.

Pix4d, DroneDeploy, DJI Terra, Scopito

DJI M350 RTK
M30T
Mavic 4 Pro

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