Dronebase pays next to nothing and is the worst gig Ive found so far for professional drone pilots. Dronebase finds kids with Standard Phantoms or Maviks to fly these (sparsely available) "missions" at $35 per home. Importantly, this DJI forum unexpectedly reveals what you are bidding against. A lot of money for a kid, peanuts for a professional, especially for Dronebase' specialized training regimen. The resulting, typical profile of a Dronebase pilot is... a sharp kid with no job.
Uncompensated tedium. Each home requires approximately 80 precisely positioned (angle, height, distance) photos, plus a specialized scheduling protocol (again, rarely dispatched), dress code, customer presentation and logistical tactics. To justify the peanuts payout, the Dronebase description of the gig, to sucker you into the elaborate training program, says the shoot is a quick and easy "15 minutes". Im a retired military pilot and these missions take at least 1 1/2 hours and two batteries to perform correctly. BTW, my sample mission was fully accepted by Dronebase with no flaws. And dont forget another hour for Dronebase's tedious organization of your photos into groups, called "buckets" before uploading to their server, before a looming deadine.
Uncompensated risk. Hypothetically, Dronebase literature indicates a substantial rate of rejection of entire missions (not mine) for faulty photo precision... and denote this fact in capital letters in their tedious online manual. Just speculating, but try to complete one of these missions in 15 minutes and expect it to be rejected.
Another Dronebase claim falsely states; says as soon you finish training, you can "...start accepting client missions". Immediately upon finishing training, I received a canned response saying "We have nothing in your area right now...", even though my area was listed with Dronebase as the ENTIRE state of Florida, since I'm centrally located. Dronebase's fraudulent marketing claims, in order to create a large pool of reserve pilots, logically borderlines on being called a [ ].