Drone & Dusted

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Drone & Dusted

Postby mja » Wed Jul 10 2013, 08:08

Check this out! ...................... :cool_dc:

http://youtu.be/LJZcWpVzrKs
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Re: Drone & Dusted

Postby wocawoca » Wed Jul 10 2013, 10:46

They will put us all out of a job soon...
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Re: Drone & Dusted

Postby cazzaca » Wed Jul 10 2013, 11:10

wocawoca wrote:They will put us all out of a job soon...


I presume you mean musterers, as unless that thing can speak Chinese and/or stop people from grabbing all the wrong stuff while flying around, I think we'll be right for a while!

Great vid.
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Re: Drone & Dusted

Postby Vidman » Wed Jul 10 2013, 22:39

One place they are already hurting the Helicopter industry is aerial photography. We can now get the shots we need a lot cheaper. For the cost of a hour of flight time I can buy a pretty good platform with gyro stabilized mounts.
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Re: Drone & Dusted

Postby Jamie » Thu Jul 11 2013, 02:17

We can now get the shots we need a lot cheaper. For the cost of a hour of flight time I can buy a pretty good platform with gyro stabilized mounts.

I guess that depends on whether you have an operating certificate or not?

If you don't, you'll have to allow for the 18k fine.

Oh, and if you hit a person it will probably cost you your house as you can't get insurance without an OC.
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Re: Drone & Dusted

Postby Vidman » Thu Jul 11 2013, 04:19

There are companies with the O/C needed and hiring them is not that expensive.
Yes there are cowboys out there, but there are also well set up companies with the skills to get results.
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Re: Drone & Dusted

Postby DragonFlyer » Thu Jul 11 2013, 07:34

Thats impressive!
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself. :) :) :)
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Re: Drone & Dusted

Postby Jamie » Thu Jul 11 2013, 07:35

For the cost of a hour of flight time I can buy a pretty good platform


There are good operators with OCs out there but by your original post, you gave the impression you could just 'buy' your own drone?
Do you have your own drone?
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Re: Drone & Dusted

Postby Vidman » Thu Jul 11 2013, 12:06

Not yet but will be getting one soon.
Just waiting to see what CASA does. They were looking at a new classing system for UAVs.
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Re: Drone & Dusted

Postby KNOW NUFFEN » Fri Jul 12 2013, 22:54

How long do the batteries last in these sort ???
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Re: Drone & Dusted

Postby Vidman » Sat Jul 13 2013, 05:11

KNOW NUFFEN wrote:How long do the batteries last in these sort ???


Depends on a lot of factors. Including the platform you use and the amount of weight you try to lift. But generally you get from 5 to 15 minutes.

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