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Heliman
Location: Atlanta, GA USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Hello everyone,

A couple of weeks ago, the tree service company I work for put bids in on a land clearing project. The owner of the company I work for is my best friend, so I went with him to look at the land. We walked around for a couple of hours looking at the property and taking pictures from the ground when I started thinking that it would be cool if we had some aireal photos of the area.

I realized it would be expensive to hire a company to fly over and take pictures, but the idea of flying a radio controlled airplane with a small camera popped into my head and I have been obsessed with it ever since.

I found this message board while searching the web looking to see if any civilian companies are using radio controlled air craft for video and photography. I was blown away by how advanced you guys are with this stuff! wow. The pictures posted here are stunning, and several of you seem to welcome questions. Thank you for sharing your ideas, wisdom, success and failure.

As I said above, I am obsessed with getting some air video. I am thinking about purchasing the Draganfly IV or www.rctoys.com/draganflyerxpro.php Draganfly X Pro as my platform. They have a great deal right now for the draganfly iv with the camera combo.

My questions to you are, have any of you experimented with the Draganfly vehicle? The pro version is supposed to be able to lift 5lbs - that would be plenty to carry my digital video recorder if the camera the draganfly company is selling didn't work well.

I would be very happy to chat with you guys about RC air photo/vid. Please feel free to email me at arborcarejosh@yahoo.com

Thank you in advance for any comments or help you may be able to provide,

Justin
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Spitfire_mk5
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Location: Canada

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		there made locally

there was a thread about them a little while before (search feature) but i would definatly keep well away from them!!! first the DF4 is small eats rotorblades by the hour and unresponsive to fly. secodn you do realize how small it is right? Only ever seen the the big ones once at a mall show but their payload is alot smaller then a nitro, gas or larger electirc heli (oz's to lb's) and they want an arm and a leg for parts.

They are more of an overpriced novelty but if you still are considering them maybe PM pokey he's flown DF4's alot and can give you a more indepth about them. And check out the old threads.


But they are easier to learn to fly then a real full-blown heli.
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alanhsu
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Location: Vancouver, Canada

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Oh no~

I would think twice about that.

They are just way too expensive for what they are worth.

and you can't even put a "real" camera on it.

also they don't fly nearly as well. Not really like a heli.


Anyways, search around the board and you'll see.

For that price you'll get yourself something much bigger, better, and carry way more stuff.
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jeffscholl
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Location: Whitefish, MT

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Hi Justin,

Interesting idea about the tree service.
I had an inquiry from the Forrest Service.
They wanted to do an egg count for bird nests.

How easy would that be! :-)

Cheers,
Jeff
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Heliman
Location: Atlanta, GA USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Wow - you guys are quick to respond. I apologize for posting a thread that has been discussed before. I am new to this site (couple of days) and haven't found the search feature - I actually thought maybe the board was an older one without that feature. Thank you for pointing out that there is a search - I will use it.

My reason for choosing the Draganfly was that I thought it may be easier for me (never flown RC planes or helicopters) to learn with. It looked like a stable platform to use, but now that I read what some of you are saying I need research other options.

Can anyone recommend a good beginner vehicle? I realize I have a lot of work ahead of me learning, but I am serious about getting into RC Aireal photo and video. Please keep the info and ideas coming - this is a great place!
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Heliman
Location: Atlanta, GA USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		LOL@counting eggs. Man that sounds kinda tuff. Can you imagine trying to maneuver in a bunch of branches and leaves. Not to mention the pissed off momma birds that may take offense to another flying thing near her babies. Good luck with that one buddy!
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jeffscholl
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Location: Whitefish, MT

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I'm always up for a challenge!

I'm off to find myself a nest....

Cheers,
Jeff
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alanhsu
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Location: Vancouver, Canada

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Well I am really a beginner myself.

I have a hummingbird. (its micro size)
due to its size , and it fix pitched (I believe dragonfly is also a fix pitch machine, but I am not totally sure. fix pitch means when wind strike downward on your machine, your machine will come down REAL quick due to low head speed, not as responsive and not as stable)
it is said that it's harder to hover than a 30 size nitro model or any bigger electric powered cp heli out there. (again I haven't flown any cp bird so I cannot confirm 100% but this is what people that know better than me are telling me and I haven't heard any otherwise)

Here's the point.
fp micro like Hummingbird is harder to hover as people say.
but I managed to learn to hover it in a day once its setup right(tail-in)
I believe if you get a simulator first. (I got reflex) you will get right pass the crash/learning stage.

So don't worry too much about how hard a real R/C heli is to fly.
It is certainly not an easy task.
But I've heard dozens of people who reported that they can hover nose-in on the first day because they had practiced on a sim before they fly the real thing.


Here's a metaphor.
Real R/C heli are like Advance multi-mode fully capable Digi-cam
While dragonfly are like Dummy-proof "not fully capable" "however very expensive for unknow reason" camera.

Of course advance one is gonna be harder to use.
but once you get pass the learning stage you'll appreciate all the functions it comes with^^.
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Heliman
Location: Atlanta, GA USA

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Of course advance one is gonna be harder to use.


Good point. I want to be able to take shots from altitudes as high as possible when necessary. I am not really worried too much about learning to fly I guess - I am a fast learner. Though unrelated to flying, I used to race RC cars with my dad. We raced in some pretty big races when I was a teen ager and we got pretty deep into that. I had fun taking budget racer cars and improving them with faster motors, better speed controls and bearings replacing the plastic bushings in gear box and wheels. I think I will have fun with the flying RC stuff the same way. I just can't stop thinking about taking pics from the air.

Thanks again for all the advice and keep it coming. I research as you post
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Spitfire_mk5
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My Posts This: Topic  Forum		didn't mean anytrhing by telling you to search.. just had to run and cant type that fast

best bet for a learning machine would be a 30 or 50 sized heli -- raptor or evo are good as is the voyager 30 or hawk sport. these would be good to learn to fly and can take a light camera i would immagine then if need be move on to a bergen observer, industrial, joker (electric) or 90 sized glow powered one (fury, predator, raptor, vigor CS ect.). the bigger ones will take a nice payload however the only one i know of that is a dedicated cameraship is the observer the others require you either buy or build a camera mount yourself.


good simulator will teach you how to fly pretty quick. then your set.

Counting egs: lol but i'm off to photograph snow melting this spring
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