Planned communities and office parks, read roof by roof.

Yes — Germantown sits at 21.8 NM from the DCA VOR/DME, inside the 30-mile Special Flight Rules Area, and it is served with FAA authorization. SFRA operations run under NOTAM discipline, which is part of every site's setup rather than an afterthought. We verify the specific parcel before we commit to a date.

Whatever your parcel's grid cell allows, or Part 107's 400-foot limit, whichever is lower. No cell value was returned at the Germantown area, so there is no published grid ceiling to quote — altitude resolves through the authorization path. We work the parcel at its centroid and corners rather than quoting the town a single number, and where a profile needs to sit higher, the request goes through a manual FAA path and we file early.

Inside the SFRA, no — the standing UAS security NOTAM limits operations to clear-weather daylight. Thermal contrast does peak in the hours after sunset, so for parcels verified outside the SFRA we schedule night capture; for Germantown parcels we plan around twilight and dry-day windows, which still produce strong ΔT separation on a wet roof.

No. Germantown is inside the SFRA but outside the Flight Restricted Zone, the inner ring where drone operations are prohibited without a specific federal airspace waiver. That inner ring is out of scope for our aerial work, and we say so plainly at intake. Where a portfolio spans sites inside it and outside it, we scope site by site and tell you which ones we can serve.

A single pass over the community that captures every roof plane the same way, with findings geolocated and severity-ranked so the board can rank the work rather than argue about it. Boards use it as the record behind a reserve study or a budget line. Jinki performs no remediation, so the report carries no agenda about who does the work.

That is the usual case for us, and on townhome rows it is often the whole point. Capture runs entirely from outside the building — no ladders, no penetrations, no personnel on the membrane. Findings arrive as image pairs with the measurement attached, written as scope for your own contractor to price.

Your own contractors and maintenance team. Jinki inspects only and performs no remediation, so the report carries no conflict of interest. Every finding arrives with the image pair and measurement attached.