This is great for environmental work. You can position a tiny wildlife camera discreetly and leave it there for 3 days. Picking it up again takes practice but the system works...
Our RA doesn’t cover landing on telephone poles. I certainly wouldn’t authorise this with our aircraft. The landing area has to be a 1 meter diameter flat space. Pilots who train for this have to do 25 approaches into a 3 meter concrete pad before than can reduce to the minimum landing area...
Most of those are boot checks. As long as the aircraft remains powered on and the RLS is reasonably level, you won’t have IMU reset etc.
If you land at at a site that has magnetic interference then that’s different.
These help with point 2 and 3.
DJI Phantom 4 Landing Gear
If you land with a tree or bush in the frame you can get a sense of wind before departure..
Good discussion guys!!
Better to record the live HDMI feed at the base station than record onto aircraft SD card. That way if the aircraft is discovered there is no recorded material on it ;-)
(You also save a tiny amount of fuel by not recording to the SD)
For the “prison run”, a short 5min flight in and landing in a discreet location means you can sit quietly with a video feed for half an hour before departing....
We run a pre touchdown checklist that works most of the time.
TOUCHDOWN AREA CLEAR AND SECURE
1) Level surface (or you will have to do a Neil Armstrong ;-)
2) Confirm telemetry signal strength at 1m
3) Check no compass errors at 1m
4) Rotate camera to horizon level at 1m
5) Confim rotor stop...
We are doing remote landings inside prison facilities and secure sites to demonstrate current UAV technologies to Government agencies. The answer to the question “why do it” for us is a commercial one. The reason we have to demonstrate the capability is because it’s possible.
Landing gear extensions are a MUST for this kind of work. More clearance, wider base, much less chance of a roll over.
Don’t forget to manage you home point strings properly. ;-)
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