Arch Aerial LLC

Arch Aerial LLC Enterprise UAS services for oil and gas and construction.

06/17/2026

ROW documentation out in West Texas

Whether it’s for Facility maintenance, training, or construction…Every managing and/or operating company needs imagery o...
06/17/2026

Whether it’s for Facility maintenance, training, or construction…

Every managing and/or operating company needs imagery of their facilities.

The crew working on an asset today is looking at conditions that may have shifted since the last walkthrough.

Aerial documentation addresses this across three formats:

1. 2D mapping. A current, geo-referenced plan view of the facility footprint, what's where, what's changed, what the latest as-built actually shows.

2. 3D modeling. The asset as it stands today, viewable from any angle, down to the component level. Engineers plan from real conditions, not remembered ones.

3. Marketing-grade aerials. Cinematic footage for board updates, investor decks, and community engagement. The same facility, presented to the audiences who need a sense of clarity.

Three deliverables. Three audiences.

A facility runs better when the people responsible for it can actually see it.

06/16/2026

Some pipeline operators have never seen their full system in mapped out.

Some have never watched a video walk of their facilities from last week.

Most have never compared overlay imagery of the same ROW two months apart and watched the encroachment build slide by slide.

The aerial data services we're building for midstream clients now were uncommon three years ago.

If you're running infrastructure worth millions per mile, the question isn't whether you'll have this data. It's whether you'll have it before the operator next door does.

500 miles of documented methane detection done for a customer this past week.Huge props to our team, consistently raisin...
06/15/2026

500 miles of documented methane detection done for a customer this past week.

Huge props to our team, consistently raising the bar to provide for our midstream customers.

06/11/2026

Methane hits don't exactly announce themselves, unless you’re looking for them.

We discovered a hit for a Texas pipeline operator some years back. The major worry was that the hit occurred in the middle of a residential neighborhood…

After continuous aerial monitoring, we honed in on what seemed to be an outdoor fireplace that had been left on. Although still dangerous, there was a huge sigh of relief…

The operator turned into a good neighbor and notified the resident.

The sheer sensitivity and accuracy if our detection systems really can have a substantial impact on the general public safety as well as the safety of our operators.

A ROW inquiry comes in. A third party claims they never broke ground inside the pipeline corridor.The question isn't whe...
06/10/2026

A ROW inquiry comes in. A third party claims they never broke ground inside the pipeline corridor.

The question isn't whether they did. The question is whether you can prove it.

If your last documented aerial pass of that segment is 14 months ago, the conversation stays open for months. If it's 3 weeks ago, you open the file, pull the geo-referenced frame, and the conversation closes.

The difference between those two outcomes isn't what happened in the field. It's when the last flight happened. Its the difference of thousands of dollars and a legal case.

Consistent aerial documentation of ROW isn't a nice-to-have. It's the record your compliance team reaches for when the call comes in.

Facility operations and maintenance runs on what you can see.A facility runs better when the people responsible for it a...
06/09/2026

Facility operations and maintenance runs on what you can see.

A facility runs better when the people responsible for it are looking at detailed, quality imagery.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is bringing TFRs to Texas. Inside what that means for commercial drone operations.When the tourn...
06/08/2026

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is bringing TFRs to Texas.

Inside what that means for commercial drone operations.

When the tournament kicks off next week, on June 11th, two Texas cities host matches, Dallas (AT&T Stadium in Arlington) and Houston (NRG Stadium).

But the operational restrictions extends well beyond the stadiums, and include team base camps, FIFA Fan Festivals, and the International Broadcast Center at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.

For commercial drone operators planning summer work in these markets, here's the inside view:

- Specific TFR boundaries, altitudes, and timing publish closer to the event. Operators should monitor tfr.faa.gov as match dates approach.
- TFRs apply to commercial Part 107 operations the same way they apply to recreational flight.
- Restrictions are likely to extend beyond match venues to base camps, fan festivals, and broadcast hubs.
- Active projects in DFW or Houston during June and July should account for TFR exposure in their schedule as soon as possible.

We monitor TFRs as a routine part of mission planning. The operators who maintain a strict schedule throughout the tournament need to start building a plan around it.

If you're running aerial documentation, inspection, or marketing media work in major metropolitan areas in the US, this is the time to look at your June and July calendar.

FAA TFR Map: https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=map

The DFW metroplex isn't slowing down.Plano, Prosper, McKinney, and Fort Worth projects (just to name a few) are breaking...
06/05/2026

The DFW metroplex isn't slowing down.

Plano, Prosper, McKinney, and Fort Worth projects (just to name a few) are breaking ground faster than most teams can track.

We're servicing the entire metro; same teams, same standards, wherever the project sits.

What we've learned working with GCs out here is that consistency matters more than speed. And the partners who scale with a GC are the ones who listen to how the GC actually runs their projects.

06/04/2026

Most facility documentation is flat. Literally.

Photos from a site visit, PDF inspection report, a 2D plan view in the compliance folder. All useful, but non of them let you walk around the asset from your desk.

A 3D facility model does. What the model gives a team is true conditions. The asset as it actually is today.

For training, the new tech onboarding next month sees the real facility before they ever set foot on site. For inspection planning, the engineer can pre-walk the corridor and flag what to focus on.

The experience of seeing your own asset this way is genuinely fun.

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