Recent content by donnk

im thinking of using the drone as the brains only. if I can counteract the load with a baloon then it hasnt much to shift. I'm thinking of it like a big boat, a puny human can move that when giving it a push at the dock. IT would only need to fly 4 feet above the crops. Will have a tinker i think.

no not at all, i'm looking at agricultural use. The farming drones are £££££££, if this could be made to last an hour and have a good payload for sprays and follow a set path automatically it would just be great. I think it can be made to do this with some tinkering.

zeppelin style im thinking, would greatly increase endurance. I guess you could hang a car battery under it with the right amount of baloon lift... Will have to do some experimenting I think.

just thinking out the box here, if I was to attach a weather helium baloon to the drone and inflate it just enough to hold its weight, say a little negative so it softly falls. I would think an hour or more of flight time could be achieved then right ? Has this been tried ?

thanks all, great information. is it possible to add more battery to give it a longer loiter time ? Guess its a weight/power trade off.

its open fields once the hill is cleared. i cant see the signal being received from more than 1000m away this is why looking to send it to a gps loc. thanks!

ok thanks, i can get around that. What about flying out of controller range to a gps loc as the controller will be blocked by the hill. Is that possible ? Do i need specialist software ? thanks !

thanks for the reply, does this mean it cant go over any obstacle of 500m or more ?

I like the look of the mavic pro, what i want to do is send the drone to a GPS loc 2 miles away. I will not have control as the loc is behind a hill. I would like to program the drone to fly say 700m up from takeoff which is enough to clear the hill, goto the GPS loc and drop down to say 100m...