Use of Remote Aircraft to View Property
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deezler
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This is about my price range.
$43.78
3.5-Channel Infrared RC Aluminum Alloy Helicopter with Camera (Yellow)
Bruce
Ha! Nice. At 0.3 megapixel, you ought to be able to see the difference between trees and water or sky....
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I would also look where the pound was when h bought it, my calcs would show it even more USD.
That being said, I have other uses for 30K....
I have flown RC airplanes for several years. its not hard to learn to fly and as expensive as you want to make it. I would suggest finding a RC club and joining.
they will teach you for free.
I have had planes for aerial photography that cost $80 for the plane and camera. My most expensive was $400.
Here's a link that shows what others are doing.
Aerial Photography - RC Groups
they will teach you for free.
I have had planes for aerial photography that cost $80 for the plane and camera. My most expensive was $400.
Here's a link that shows what others are doing.
Aerial Photography - RC Groups
AR.Drone 2.0. Parrot new wi-fi quadricopter- AR.Drone 2.0 Parrot new wi-fi quadricopter - Fly with iPhone and iPad, Record videos in HD, Share on YouTube
samples:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqkklVI7WBo&feature=relmfu]AR.Drone 2.0 : Product Features - YouTube[/ame]
samples:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqkklVI7WBo&feature=relmfu]AR.Drone 2.0 : Product Features - YouTube[/ame]
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man, started reading thread, and was so hoping to see a nice cheap setup. at the end of the page...
everyone talking actual air planes you get in and fly. but what about 1 person gliders, errr wrong name. they have a large "fan" on the back, and then a large glider wing up above. runs off a gas engine. and control things with some foot pedals and a lever on each side.
EDIT: are they called "ultra flights gliders"?
on a side note: any chance of seeing some sort of 5HP gas engine you might see on a tiller, or push mower, and being turned into a helicopter, that has enough fuel to last say 30 to 60 minutes maybe even 2 hours? at that rate a small video camera could be setup with own little "generator" or smallish alternator with some capacitors to power electronics on board.
EDIT: on a different route. get a tractor and put some cash and time into makeing some road ways, you could drive a 4wheeler on. folks on TBN do this all the time. though swampy areas take a little more doing.
everyone talking actual air planes you get in and fly. but what about 1 person gliders, errr wrong name. they have a large "fan" on the back, and then a large glider wing up above. runs off a gas engine. and control things with some foot pedals and a lever on each side.
EDIT: are they called "ultra flights gliders"?
on a side note: any chance of seeing some sort of 5HP gas engine you might see on a tiller, or push mower, and being turned into a helicopter, that has enough fuel to last say 30 to 60 minutes maybe even 2 hours? at that rate a small video camera could be setup with own little "generator" or smallish alternator with some capacitors to power electronics on board.
EDIT: on a different route. get a tractor and put some cash and time into makeing some road ways, you could drive a 4wheeler on. folks on TBN do this all the time. though swampy areas take a little more doing.
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I have my hang gliding license. The term you are looking for is paragliding powered " parachutes". Parasailing is unpowered.
It is not a safe device to let go of to grab a camera and take pix but it can be done.
Maybe an ultralight instead?
It is not a safe device to let go of to grab a camera and take pix but it can be done.
Maybe an ultralight instead?
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How about something like this...
SpyHawk FPV - The First RTF R/C First Person View Plane
Ready to go.
SpyHawk FPV - The First RTF R/C First Person View Plane
Ready to go.
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SFLOGGIE:
I am an ATV owner, an ultralight aircraft pilot, and a builder and maintainer of ATV trails in woods. I have done a lot of aerial photography from an open ultralight. I want to say this carefully: You will learn almost nothing about the trails and poaching and trespass from any aerial platform. Whether you are in it, or filming from it, or remote piloting it, you will be too high, too fast, too low of resolution, to be able to tell damage from groomed trail, or fence posts from hunters. When you go up 300 feet, you almost completely loose depth perception, and small details like foot-deep ruts in the ground are indistinguishable from flat dirt.
If you want to know what is going on in there, you need to get your boots muddy.
That picture of the ATV "damage" that you showed -- That's not terrible, I don't see any evidence of erosion (loss of soil). The trail could possibly be 500 years old. A bit of landscape rake grooming to level and fill the water puddles there and you'd have a super nice access trail for your own use on your tractor or ATV for your inspection/enjoyment tours. If that humble trail beginning was not there, you'd have to fight your way thru the bramble and vine to get access.
Stop fighting it and start using it. Notice I did not say "clear cut" or "burn it". But study the trails, their direction, re-route where needed for erosion, put in waterbreaks to keep water from following the trail, establish trails to every remote corner for your use in maintenance of the timber, wildlife viewing, general security, picnics, site-seeing, downed-firewood harvesting, etc. If you don't actually use the land, and enjoy it, what's the point?
My 0 cents' worth for ya...
I am an ATV owner, an ultralight aircraft pilot, and a builder and maintainer of ATV trails in woods. I have done a lot of aerial photography from an open ultralight. I want to say this carefully: You will learn almost nothing about the trails and poaching and trespass from any aerial platform. Whether you are in it, or filming from it, or remote piloting it, you will be too high, too fast, too low of resolution, to be able to tell damage from groomed trail, or fence posts from hunters. When you go up 300 feet, you almost completely loose depth perception, and small details like foot-deep ruts in the ground are indistinguishable from flat dirt.
If you want to know what is going on in there, you need to get your boots muddy.
That picture of the ATV "damage" that you showed -- That's not terrible, I don't see any evidence of erosion (loss of soil). The trail could possibly be 500 years old. A bit of landscape rake grooming to level and fill the water puddles there and you'd have a super nice access trail for your own use on your tractor or ATV for your inspection/enjoyment tours. If that humble trail beginning was not there, you'd have to fight your way thru the bramble and vine to get access.
Stop fighting it and start using it. Notice I did not say "clear cut" or "burn it". But study the trails, their direction, re-route where needed for erosion, put in waterbreaks to keep water from following the trail, establish trails to every remote corner for your use in maintenance of the timber, wildlife viewing, general security, picnics, site-seeing, downed-firewood harvesting, etc. If you don't actually use the land, and enjoy it, what's the point?
My 0 cents' worth for ya...
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The one I linked too - the AR.Drone - could be easily flown down a trail at head height and at a walking pace, presuming a not-too-windy day. The downfalls include a short battery-powered run time and only football field sized range due to it being controlled by wifi. These limitations can be overcome by hacks/mods, but that's how it is from the factory.
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