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Drone photo & video · El Calafate
In short
Drone photo & video in El Calafate starts at $260: 60 min on location with a photographer who works in El Calafate, and 25 edited photos + a 1-minute edited film delivered to a private gallery within 7 days.
Why choose drone photo & video in El Calafate?
Aerial work around El Calafate starts with a boundary line. Everything the town is known for, the Perito Moreno included, sits inside a national park where drones do not fly, so a drone session here is about what lies outside it: the turquoise edge of Lago Argentino, the open steppe, estancia roads running to the horizon, and the scale of a person in all that space. Wind sets the limit more often than the rules do.
Worth knowing about El Calafate
The Administración de Parques Nacionales forbids recreational drone use in Los Glaciares, and under APN Resolución D 9/2021 any other flight needs the APN's prior express authorisation, in daylight, with one drone and at least 30 m from anyone outside the crew. An El Calafate drone session therefore flies over private land outside the park, below 122 m, and no higher than 43 m within 5 km of a runway threshold in controlled airspace.
What does the session in El Calafate look like?
- Estancia land on Lago Argentino
- Lakeshore and steppe from above, flown with the owner's written consent.
- Steppe roads east of town
- Long, empty gravel lines for a top-down frame of a car or a couple.
What does drone photo & video in El Calafate include?
- 60 minutes on location, with the time in the air set by batteries, wind and light
- 25 edited aerial photos
- A 1-minute edited aerial film with licensed music
- Flown by a pilot who carries third-party liability insurance, with the drone declared to the Registro Nacional de Aeronaves
- Photos and film delivered within 7 days
FAQ — Drone photo & video in El Calafate
Can you film the Perito Moreno Glacier with a drone?
Not on a session. Parques Nacionales bans recreational drone use throughout Parque Nacional Los Glaciares and requires its prior express authorisation for any other flight, and the Perito Moreno Glacier, its walkways and the lake in front are all inside it. Aerial footage from an El Calafate drone session shows Lago Argentino and the steppe outside the park; the glacier is photographed from the ground.
What does a drone session in El Calafate include?
A drone session in El Calafate is 60 minutes of flying at one location outside the national park, with 25 edited photographs and a one-minute edited film delivered within 7 days. Flights follow ANAC rules: within sight of the pilot, clear of anyone who is not taking part and has not consented, and cancelled when the wind is too strong.