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01 / OWN OR HIRE

Ownership versus hiring

Annual cost = (purchase − residual) / years + fixed cost + variable cost × treated area Break-even area = (annualized capital + fixed cost) / (hire price − variable cost)

Three treatments of the same field count as three times its area. Include insurance, storage and annual software in fixed costs; labor, batteries, energy, travel, cleaning and analysis in variable costs. This model excludes tax, financing, subsidies, yield gains and discounting. Any excluded product costs must be comparable across both options.

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02 / THE WHOLE SERVICE CYCLE

Turnaround and effective capacity

Area/sortie = min(payload / volume, speed × swath × flight seconds / 10,000) Cycle capacity = area × 60 / (working flight + transit/turns + ground min) Charging supply = area × 60 × charging slots / charge min Estimated capacity = min(cycle capacity, charging supply)

A simplified single-aircraft, steady-state model. Enter productive flight and nonproductive transit/turning time separately. It assumes adequate charging power and no additional liquid or staffing queues. Battery count uses the charging-constrained launch cadence and assumes cooling then charging begin after ground service. It excludes reserve, thermal contingency and aircraft-specific safety margins. This is not a flight-authorization or safety tool.

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