For film and custom builds

Qualify the one-off.

Your custom heavy-lift rig is a real aircraft now, and the production, the insurer, and the studio safety officer all want its airworthiness story before it flies over a set. RotorLab gives a fleet of exactly one the same machinery a manufacturer gets: measured performance instead of a spec-sheet guess, a frozen design baseline, and a dossier with a verification code.

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A professional cinema camera drone gimbal and lens in close-up

A custom camera rig is a one-off aircraft — and it can carry a one-off aircraft’s paperwork.

Built for the shot

Whatever you fly, qualify it.

A one-off FPV rig, an aerial cinematography platform, a heavy-lift camera bird. There is no manufacturer paperwork behind it, so the qualification lands on you — and that is exactly what RotorLab hands back.

A custom FPV drone with an action camera and its transmitter

FPV & customOne-off builds, documented

A heavy-lift cinema gimbal rig flying over a city at night

Aerial cinematographyRigs a production accepts

Heavy-lift cameraMeasured, not guessed

From bench to call sheet

Measured, not assumed. That is the whole difference.

1

Size it against real physics

Build the rig in the Builder — motors, props, pack, payload. Thrust margin, hover time and power draw come from published, cross-checked equations, across sixteen airframe layouts including coax and X8 heavy lifters.

2

Measure it, do not assume it

Fly a hover with your telemetry streaming and live calibration inverts the model: figure of merit and maximum thrust measured from your aircraft’s own data. The dossier’s numbers become the aircraft’s, not the catalog’s.

3

Freeze the baseline

The finished design freezes as a type: parameters and approved performance, hashed at freeze time. One aircraft is enough — the configuration that got qualified is the one on record, and drift from it is visible.

4

Keep the record after wrap

Repairs, batteries and every flight keep landing on the same record, so the rig you qualified this season is still the rig on paper next season.

rotorlab.app/calibrate

The calibration screen: a hover and WOT capture, then measured versus predicted figure of merit, thrust and power with deltas

Live calibration: a hover measures your aircraft’s real figure of merit and max thrust, and the model becomes yours.

rotorlab.app/verify

The public validation page: the physics behind the numbers re-evaluated live in the browser, each matching the engine

Anyone on the production side can re-run the physics behind your numbers. Nothing is taken on faith.

The handover

Hand a production a document, not a promise.

The airworthiness dossier renders with the baseline, the measured performance, the declaration matrix you signed, and a verification code anyone on the production side can check at rotorlab.app/verify. Your rig shows up to the shoot with its story already told.

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A fleet of one deserves a real record.

Build your rig this afternoon, fly a calibration hover, and render a dossier before the next call sheet.

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RotorLab documents your aircraft’s qualification; it does not issue airworthiness approvals. What it gives you is the evidence trail that makes your claim easy to accept.