Sure thing mate, I'd love to! We both have a busy one tomorrow (best of luck with that and I hope the weather holds for you) I'll drop you a PM with a phone number after that.
Sorry to drop offline like that, it was storming here like you wouldn't believe so I pulled the plug.
In the real estate, events and "pretty pictures" department yes quite possibly. As far as mapping, area and quantity surveys not unless they release one with a mechanical shutter.
Yes, the
P4P is not the first choice for that work.
I suppose it depends on how your business is geared as to what is the exception or the rule. I have all the procedures and risk mitigation in place in my approved ReOC manuals to be allowed to do proximity work and events and fly over built up areas but I simply don't take those jobs. I don't like operating around crowds if I can avoid it, it keeps my insurance premiums down and also there is always plenty of people around the city who do real estate and the like and I'm yet to break into TV or film work (and not too fussed if I don't). My bread and butter is survey, mapping, and inspections of structure, buildings, bridges and antennas so your exception is my rule and vice versa I would guess.
At slow speeds this is true but as speed increases the Mavic's advantage fades away. At speed the Mavic needs to take on such a steep angle of attack that it's sail profile increases greatly. According to Airdata UAV who are averaging out records from over 2 million flights if you take it to the extreme end at 40 Mph the Mavic airframe has dropped to around 47% efficiency compared to a hover equating to about 13 minutes of battery life, the
P4 Airframe has only fallen to about 72% efficiency meaning around 20 minutes per battery. So if you are buzzing slowly around or hovering while lining up and doing nice film or photos with the occasional dash from place to place to change angles then the Mavic is your choice. If on the other hand you are surveying large tracts of land while taking images on the move at speed for a map at industry levels of accuracy then the
P4 gets it every time. My average waypoint run for a photo mosaic is conducted at 91m AGL and 32.9 Kph at .50Hz (a frame taken every 2 seconds) for an 80% overlap. I need 5 batteries on the mavic to do what I can do with 3 on the
P4 and then the mavic has the speed distortion caused by the rolling software shutter. Also I carry all of my birds in hard shell suitcase style protection for job sites so for me a lot of the portability advantage is moot.
As I said earlier, I've got both so I just choose the one I need for the job I'm doing. I'm trying to convince the Mrs that I really need a Matrice 600 for the business now, wish me luck
Regards
Ari