Drone with Camera

I've thought they could be utilized as a tool while on patrol. Pop up, snoop around. Not perfect, but not launched from the retreat either.

 

The transmit freq are impossable to intercept or override, as you pointed out with them being locked in and Freq agile, it's actually worse then you think, they are "Bound" to each other, the control and receiver, and if the bond is interfered or challenged, it simply hopps! It's that same problem with Doppler Radar, you can detect a Radar signal, but with out line of sight beam sharpening, it's impossable to triangulate or determine signal strength unless you have a laser string enough to burn the emitter/receiver, not very likely to ever happen, plus you would then have no means of taking control! The Wi-Fi is a different animal entirely, that can be hijacked pretty easy, but has no effect on the drone control signal! Figure out how to jamb or hijack the control, you would be a millionaire in no time!

 

What would be fun is a "counter-drone". One that could deploy a non-firearm bolo net to snag and down another drone. Gotta protect the casa's privacy. If the "enemy drone" falls on my property, it is MINE!

 

Lol, counter drone ops! I may ( may) know of a large expensive drone that went missing some time ago, it "may" have crashed in the forest in the area of Catamount res. while on a illegal recon flight in that A.O. It's rumored to have been struck by a high velocity projectile(s) which caused it to loose signal and fly off until it crashed in the trees! There was no search party launched to recover it, so it may still be there! I may even know where it went down, but no one came looking, so I ain't offering help! This is all rumors and hear say! I know nothing, I see nothing, I hear nothing, I didn' even get up this more ing! Lol

 

I have on several occasions set my Phantom 3 up at one location, took it to another and launched, and let it return "home" where it was initialized. Had it follow a RR track for the TV station for 15 minutes while they shot footage of it, and it landed beside the tracks and shut down.
They are also great for grabbing video and or stills of an AO. I found some things I never knew was 150 yards away. The have their uses, and I really doubt anyone would be able to hijack it. Or really follow it down because the flight times are too short. I plan on having mine available for pop up sneak and peaks should I ever need to. Add to that they are just a helluva lot of fun to fly.

 

Been thinking of gettin 1 myself. Been lookin at them for a while. Don't want to waste money on cheap junk , but don't want to lose a grand on a lost drone. I am not a computer game player , so getting the buttons wrong worries me. Also , if it's a grid down situation , there will be no automatic return home button , because there will be no GPS , or Internet ,,,,, Right ???

 

OK, these things transmit back to your cell phone... do they work when the cell network is down?

 

Thanks BT, much like the i355? Same distance, frequency or 2.4/5 GHz? I hope the distance is better than my WiFi router....

 

Crop dusting on the way out....

 

SAR by drone

 

Not quite an air ambulance - and NOT Scifi, real stuff.

 

Firefighting? Yeah, they got a drone for that

 

Finally - if you are lost in the woods...

 

Most folks around here would shoot down any drone as trespassing at best, a peeping Tom at worst.

I certainly would. Possibly also any mouthy ass owner that showed up bitching and threatening as well.