Which areas need extra clearance?

Anywhere inside a 10 km ring around Cape Town International, Lanseria, Rand Airport, Grand Central or Wonderboom needs prior airspace coordination. Green Point, Sea Point, Camps Bay and the southern suburbs of Cape Town are generally clear; Sandton, Bryanston and Rosebank in Johannesburg sit inside the Lanseria and OR Tambo overlap and need pre-flight checks.

Up to about 30 km/h steady wind. Coastal southeaster days in Camps Bay and Bloubergstrand often ground the drone by mid-afternoon — we start early or reschedule.

Do you cover Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and the Winelands?

Yes. Winelands work is a same-day trip from Cape Town — no travel surcharge inside a 90-minute radius. Overnight accommodation is only quoted for multi-day estate campaigns.

Do you need a permit to shoot on Cape Town beaches?

Editorial and property-marketing shoots on the Promenade, Camps Bay and Clifton beaches don't need a City of Cape Town permit. Full film crews, commercial talent shoots and closed-set work do — allow two weeks for the permit round-trip.

Cape Town · Western Cape

Drone Photography in Cape Town.

Name: TimeSake Media
Address: 5 Melkbosch Village St, Melkbosstrand, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7441, ZA
Telephone: +27 79 694 8698
Rating: 5.0

Aerial stills and 4K aerial video for property, development and brand work. Every flight is planned around the airspace, the wind and the site — daylight, visual line of sight, below 400ft, with written property consent on file. Controlled-airspace and commercial-for-hire flights are booked through a certified partner operator.

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Local craft · Cape Town

Drone Photography & Video in Cape Town — how we work locally

Cape Town drone photography wraps around the wind clock. Atlantic Seaboard — Camps Bay, Clifton, Bantry Bay, Bakoven — flies best in the first two hours after sunrise before the southeaster arrives. Bloubergstrand, Big Bay and Table View take the same rule, with the added benefit that a north-looking aerial reads the property against Table Mountain if the timing is right. Constantia and Bishopscourt fly well in the afternoon; Hout Bay is a special case with valley wind that can ground a shoot without warning. False Bay coast — Muizenberg, St James, Simon's Town — has cleaner mornings and slower afternoons, and the water colour changes dramatically with the light. We stay clear of the Cape Town International 10km ring around the southern suburbs and out of the V&A Waterfront no-fly by default.

On-site rhythm

Every Cape Town shoot is planned around light, wind and load-shedding — we brief the schedule the night before and confirm the call time with the agent or homeowner.

How we plan a flight

Every flight starts with three checks the night before: the airspace over the address, the wind and cloud base for the shoot window, and the consent position on the ground. Daylight, visual line of sight, below 400 feet and clear separation from people and neighbouring property are non-negotiable, and we agree a launch and landing point with the agent or estate manager before the day so the aircraft is never lifting off from a public pavement or a neighbour's verge. Each flight is logged with coordinates, launch time and battery cycle, which is what an estate manager or body corporate asks for when they want assurance. Jobs that need controlled-airspace clearance or a certified commercial operator are booked through a partner with the relevant SACAA approvals, quoted transparently and scheduled around their availability.

Highveld thunderstorms and altitude

Johannesburg drone work has the opposite problem: it is calm in the morning and violent in the afternoon. Summer thunderstorms build from the west from about 14:00 and the outflow winds arrive 30 minutes before the rain. We finish all exterior aerials by 13:00 in December through March and shift longer flights to winter months where the Highveld light is cleaner and the storms are absent. Altitude is a real consideration too — the aircraft loses roughly 15% of its rated flight time at 1700m above sea level, and we plan battery cycles around it so the pilot is never over a property with a red battery warning.

Data delivery and licensing

Every drone shoot ships eight to fifteen edited stills at 20 megapixels, a 30-second aerial reel where the brief calls for it, and the GPS-logged shot list so the flight is fully documented for the estate manager and the seller. The raw DNGs stay on our archive for two years. Licensing follows the same 24-month paid-media rule as our stills — the agent and the agency can use every plate in listing ads, brochures and social media without extra fees. Where the shoot is on a security estate that requires a written scan of the aerial imagery, we submit the final selection to the estate manager for sign-off before delivery.

Recent frames from Cape Town

Leloko living room, editorial daylight interior

Suburbs we cover for Drone Photography & Video in Cape Town

Every suburb below has its own aspect, its own drone-airspace note, and its own architectural language. Click through for a page written specifically for that address.

Case studies

Aerial plate over a Cape Winelands wine farm at first light — drone photography by TimeSake Media

Cape Winelands, Western Cape

Aerial footage of a Cape Winelands wine farm

Private seller via agent

A compact aerial set that gave a modestly priced listing the same locational storytelling usually reserved for high-value stock.

Woodstock, Cape Town

Drone photography for a two-bedroom apartment in Woodstock

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Drone Photography & Video in Cape Town — questions we get asked

Property and brand aerials are flown in daylight, within visual line of sight, below 400 feet, with written owner consent and a logged flight record. Where a brief needs controlled-airspace clearance or a certified commercial operator, we book it through a partner who holds the relevant SACAA approvals and quote it openly.

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TimeSake Media (PTY) LTD

5 Melkbosch Village St, Melkbosstrand, Cape Town, 7441, South Africa

Mon–Fri 09:00–17:00 SAST

Serving Cape Town

On location across Cape Town and roughly 45 km around it. Travel inside the metro is included in the quote.

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