So, I'm a long time civil aviation careerist, and with sUAS the newest officially annointed sector of the global civil aviation industry, I wanna get me some.
I used to periodically get duped into buying one of the really REALLY early versions of quadcopters and coaxial rotor tiny helicopters. Remember, they would last about 20 minutes, which was an exercise in demonstrating what dynamic cascading instability looks like in real life. At the 20 minute point, it usually crashed for the final time.
So, I have and regularly fly a refurbished, slightly misaligned Parrot Bebop 2 which I recieved as a Christmas gift a couple years ago. Based on my experiences with the early unstable quadcopters, the thing literally blows my mind every time I fly it. I'm amazed at how far they've come, and I want more.
Other then the folks at Parrot letting some random 4 year old girl come up with the model designation, the Bebop 2 offers most of what I could want....... Right up to the point where I started watching me some YouTube!
So I've been working in all corners of civil aviation for the larger part of 3 decades, so having the FAA issue me a Remote Pilot Certificate is fairly simple. I also have a couple of small businesses, none involved in aviation, so it looks like I might have an opportunity! Especially when I consider that one of the other businesses is tied directly into the residential real estate broker/ agent community.
Now, a Bebop 2 is great, but certainly not what one would try to build a commercial drone business upon. Given there will be a slight lag in time betwixt right now and when a commercial drone operation would be good to go, I decided to aquire an older version of the drone I will eventually purchase at the most current version. So, onto eBay I went, and dropped a little over $200 for a twice flown DJI Phantom 3 Standard with an inop battery. I've got a replacement being shipped as we speak, but intend on tearing into the inop one to solder a wire, or whatever.
Anyways, whilst I wait, I'm reading all the manuals, watching all the DJI videos, and watching even more reviews on YouTube. I have a question about a certain capability I'm interested in, if not with this one, then with a future drone.
Do these Phantom 3s have the ability to be configured with a slave display? The idea is related to some likely residential and commercial property prebuy roof inspection work. I've done a couple dry runs on my own property, and have found that because of the close proximity of the drone to the roof edge, the randomly shifting wind effect off the roof, and maybe my inexperience at this point, I'm not able to focus on the video feed enough to ensure I'm collecting the required video which can be used by the inspector. If I could slave the video feed to a separate tablet, I could have a video editor name sure we're not wasting our time. If there is a way to delegate the control authority for the gimbal control to this person, that would be even better.
Is there a way to do this with the 3 Standard? How about some of the more recent models now being produced?
Thanks!
BN
I used to periodically get duped into buying one of the really REALLY early versions of quadcopters and coaxial rotor tiny helicopters. Remember, they would last about 20 minutes, which was an exercise in demonstrating what dynamic cascading instability looks like in real life. At the 20 minute point, it usually crashed for the final time.
So, I have and regularly fly a refurbished, slightly misaligned Parrot Bebop 2 which I recieved as a Christmas gift a couple years ago. Based on my experiences with the early unstable quadcopters, the thing literally blows my mind every time I fly it. I'm amazed at how far they've come, and I want more.
Other then the folks at Parrot letting some random 4 year old girl come up with the model designation, the Bebop 2 offers most of what I could want....... Right up to the point where I started watching me some YouTube!
So I've been working in all corners of civil aviation for the larger part of 3 decades, so having the FAA issue me a Remote Pilot Certificate is fairly simple. I also have a couple of small businesses, none involved in aviation, so it looks like I might have an opportunity! Especially when I consider that one of the other businesses is tied directly into the residential real estate broker/ agent community.
Now, a Bebop 2 is great, but certainly not what one would try to build a commercial drone business upon. Given there will be a slight lag in time betwixt right now and when a commercial drone operation would be good to go, I decided to aquire an older version of the drone I will eventually purchase at the most current version. So, onto eBay I went, and dropped a little over $200 for a twice flown DJI Phantom 3 Standard with an inop battery. I've got a replacement being shipped as we speak, but intend on tearing into the inop one to solder a wire, or whatever.
Anyways, whilst I wait, I'm reading all the manuals, watching all the DJI videos, and watching even more reviews on YouTube. I have a question about a certain capability I'm interested in, if not with this one, then with a future drone.
Do these Phantom 3s have the ability to be configured with a slave display? The idea is related to some likely residential and commercial property prebuy roof inspection work. I've done a couple dry runs on my own property, and have found that because of the close proximity of the drone to the roof edge, the randomly shifting wind effect off the roof, and maybe my inexperience at this point, I'm not able to focus on the video feed enough to ensure I'm collecting the required video which can be used by the inspector. If I could slave the video feed to a separate tablet, I could have a video editor name sure we're not wasting our time. If there is a way to delegate the control authority for the gimbal control to this person, that would be even better.
Is there a way to do this with the 3 Standard? How about some of the more recent models now being produced?
Thanks!
BN