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Originally Posted By shooter_gregg: I would like to see a fixed wing version with long term loiter capacity. Flying a thermal camera to track hogs in the under brush would be a winning setup. Are there any solar power drones on the market? I was looking at a fixed wing drone with PTZ camera, 1hr flight time and has loiter (forward-flight to hover mode over a GPS position) and orbit modes (forward flight orbiting a GPS position) last week. Was under $2K IIRC. |
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Originally Posted By jaqufrost: OP, how is the follow and person tracking on these? I'd like to be able to move and shoot while collecting video. I'd also like to be able to set the drone to rotate around me around 5' off the ground. Most of the small camera drones have the orbit feature but its a lot further than 5 feet away. But yes you could easily fly the hoverair and do what you want. For your searching please they are called selfie drones.  BATTLE OF THE SELFIE DRONES - DJI Flip vs HoverAir X1 ProMax |
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Originally Posted By joemama74: I bought this property 10 years ago. It has a boiler with a 3 story tall chimney. It's handy to take a look. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/166748/smokestack_jpg-3830658.JPG My problem is that I have electrical transmission lines behind me. I can easily fly over them at 300ft, but I have to focus, I get vertigo just watching the phone screen. I guess I'm meant to be on the ground. I have a DJI drone that I've flown off and on recreational but I've been amazed how many people I know ask me to fly them around their homes and on their properties to see various things that you couldn't otherwise without ladders and what not. It's trick though since you have the screen but a lot of times, I need to guide it by watching the drone, around trees or power lines. Definitely need to lay out a flight path and keep an eye on it before it gets into open air space. I'm still afraid of flying up high and it just going off somewhere. I do think about getting a license but so far everything I've needed to do, I've been able to with my sub 250g DJI. |
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Originally Posted By glocke12: They can easily detect the radio signals between the drone and the device controlling it and have other methods I am sure to see what's flying. One has not lived until their residence is overflown by a large, wide wing spanned military aircraft with a slender body with top mounted engine towards the rear flying low and slow in a grid pattern. This is too much. You hallucinate worse than an AI. I've got 19 years in the same game as troutman. 1st. No such plane exist in that config that would be low and slow. 2nd. You don't fly in a grid intercepting signals. Even old school hound collars you wouldn't grid. As for your original statement about the man finding you. If the man found you with a quad you would be near a sensitive location. Or you spent way to many batteries fly adjacent to a sensitive location. The military isn't like the movies, there is no QRF just sitting idle waiting for a drone to appear in the airspace. As for the other FUDDs of this thread. They are great for surveillance and they require zero skill to fly. The software won't let you crash and burn. Now flying into a stock is another story. |
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Originally Posted By RV8guy: Why does Future Farmers of America care? Originally Posted By RV8guy: Originally Posted By boolzi: You still have to register them with the ffa or did they drop that drop it? Why does Future Farmers of America care? Lol. I screwed that up.. But main reason I’d want one is to check fences after a storm and to check on cows. I ain’t registering shit. |
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The "line of sight" thing is a dealbreaker for me. I have several friends and family who live within a 6 mile radius. I would get one if I could sit at home and fly it over to their house to mess with them. With all the trees in my neighborhood, line of sight would be about 100 yards. Boring. |