kjekje
lvl.1
Norway
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Hi all! I'm new here, and I haven't bought a drone yet, because I'm not sure it would do one of the things I'd like it to do.
My use case would require that the pilot and the person controlling the main camera are different persons, and that the camera operator is remote. Moreover, it would be nice if you could have different pilots-flying. Also, the video has to be transmitted with little lag, and we should be able to use various technologies to establish a larger control range.
So, here are the details: I'm involved in the sport of orienteering, where racers run at high pace in rough terrain using a detailed map. They can follow any route they like. We've been filming this with drones for a long time, but making it really good is very resource intensive, and as it is a pretty small sport, we don't usually have that. I'd like to see if we can do with much less.
Then, there are certain regulatory requirements, like the drone has to be a C0 drone (so, a Mini), we need to have a certain separation from the racers, and we have to fly VLOS.
The pilot workload can get pretty intense, so to capture the action well, it would be really good if the pilot in the forest could focus on this task only, and have an audio channel open to the camera operator, where the camera operator controls the gimbal but can also instruct the pilot where to fly. Now, it seems to me that the Mini 3 PRO has the hardware for this, it seems that the pilot could use the forward cameras for aviation and navigation while the camera operator controls the gimbal? Could the Mini 3 PRO do this now? Could Mini 3?
And then, lets see if we can take it a step further... We've managed to fly VLOS a few hundred meters with Mini 2, but the competition area usually spans several kilometers, and it would be nice to follow racers much longer. As far as I can tell from the regulation, there's nothing stopping us from having several pilots if we could have a safe handover while both have VLOS. You would still have the same camera operator though. This does not appear to be a hardware issue at all, but I guess I can't write the software for doing this myself, so is this something that can be done?
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