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Crazy day, disappointing yet exciting. I work in a power plant. Today I tested a drone flight in a huge oil fired boiler as a test. The scaffolding to inspect burner fronts cost $60,000. My manager asked me if I could do a drone inspection. Always up for the challenge I agreed. (man I love this stuff )
So I take the P3P outside and get a good compass cal (lots of steel right?) Walk back in the plant and get compass error message...crap. Engines won't start. Disappointing part.
Pull out my Blade 350QX3 which I happened to bring along and flew like a champ in there. Got some really great footage, unfortunately its 1080 and the blade camera not so great. Exciting part.
So what I want to do now is have a custom drone built that doesn't have GPS, compass, RTH etc because I'm in a boiler, flying manual. (Years of CP heli flying finally paid off) Hoping to get a business going flying inside/out. 28 years in the power plant business and this would make a nice retirement gig right?
Got my 333 but not needed indoors
So I take the P3P outside and get a good compass cal (lots of steel right?) Walk back in the plant and get compass error message...crap. Engines won't start. Disappointing part.
Pull out my Blade 350QX3 which I happened to bring along and flew like a champ in there. Got some really great footage, unfortunately its 1080 and the blade camera not so great. Exciting part.
So what I want to do now is have a custom drone built that doesn't have GPS, compass, RTH etc because I'm in a boiler, flying manual. (Years of CP heli flying finally paid off) Hoping to get a business going flying inside/out. 28 years in the power plant business and this would make a nice retirement gig right?
Got my 333 but not needed indoors