Aerial Video of our trip from Port Solent to Bembridge of our Sealine F37

jfm said:
Are you aware of any add-on whereby the Tx transmits its own GPS posn constantly to the copter so that upon battery or other failure the Phantom comes home to the last- received Tx position rather than to its original Take off location? Would be very handy on a boat
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Good question - from what I know there is currently not a way of doing this on the phantom 2 - the feature on the Quadcopter I have is called return to home meaning the point of takeoff - if there was I would buy it!
 
F33Man said:
Thanks Jfm for the comments - yes I am very pleased with the outcome - the spec is

Quadcopter - DJI phantom 2
Camera - GoPro black running on 1080p 60fps
Gimbal/self leveling camera element - H3-3D
FPV equipment - 5.8mhz immersion rc
FPV monitor to view the live footage - black pearl monitor
I am also running a mini iosd, this allows me to see live stats on the monitor screen such as my height, distance away, speed, battery voltage remaining, direction to come back to the boat etc
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ok many thanks. I think I can see all that clobber on quadcopters.co.uk. Time to do some shopping...
 
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jfm said:
Are you aware of any add-on whereby the Tx transmits its own GPS posn constantly to the copter so that upon battery or other failure the Phantom comes home to the last- received Tx position rather than to its original Take off location? Would be very handy on a boat
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Might be that one of the open source flight boards can do it.. or might if someone builds it for you ! Or they might be able to say why it can't yet be done.
Wouldn't be DJI though.
http://forums.openpilot.org/forum/59-aerial-photography/
Crius AIO pro is a popular board, but I am not sure it is open source.
Anyway, there are probably some guys out there who can reveal all, if you have the time to hunt.
I have a box full of gps, tx and rx units waiting for a new frame, so I might look into it over winter when I have the time.
 
That is simply superb. If I was in boat sales, I would be off down the model shop to buy one. What a great way to show a boat off to a prospective buyer. You say it will range a 1000M, I reckon it would do more, not that you need the range to be that far! Like you, I fly models; fixed wing at the moment!
 
Very nice. Amazing what you can buy now for under a grand. I spent more than that on a gimble a couple of years ago and the results where nowhere near as good.
 
jimmy_the_builder said:
How many of these have you bought now?? :D
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Well at least it sounds like he hasn't given up yet.

Go JFM ! :encouragement:


'F33Man' that was one of the best posted, very simple, even the wake shot at 1:07 on pootle was a good'un. That was the shortest 3-4 min video. Also surprising how good the visibility across the Solent was too on a fairly dull day.

Very enjoyable and thanks for posting. :cool:

RR
 
I bought a quadcopter at SIBS - it was £80 inc spare battery and a camera ( records to a chip - not transmitting video).

It works well, but any suggestion of taking it out over water with my flying skills is out of the question. It has so far visited several roofs and both neighbours gardens!

Fantastic video - there has to be a business opportunity there! If you happen to be in Mallorca next week .....
 
RogerRat said:
Well at least it sounds like he hasn't given up yet.

Go JFM ! :encouragement:
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My total is still just two. There was the one of which I posted the crash video, that ultimately burned up on re-entry on its first day of use. Then I bought a simpler one (bare copter, no camera ability) to practise flying, but haven't got round to taking it out of the box yet. I think I'll wait till new year to get another GoPro be-gimbaled job, as the technology moves on so fast. The Airdog concept sounds good because instead of hovering relative to a fixed position on the earth it hovers relative to the transmitter's position, which makes more sense for filming boating or any moving sports for that matter. There was a post about it on here a few months ago and iirc it comes to market late this year
 
jfm said:
My total is still just two. There was the one of which I posted the crash video, that ultimately burned up on re-entry on its first day of use. Then I bought a simpler one (bare copter, no camera ability) to practise flying, but haven't got round to taking it out of the box yet. I think I'll wait till new year to get another GoPro be-gimbaled job, as the technology moves on so fast. The Airdog concept sounds good because instead of hovering relative to a fixed position on the earth it hovers relative to the transmitter's position, which makes more sense for filming boating or any moving sports for that matter. There was a post about it on here a few months ago and iirc it comes to market late this year
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BTW, another avenue to explore is that you can programme the flight path of many of the boards in advance via GPS. Then you don't even need to "fly" it. I guess if you know where the copter is going, you know where to sail. Not saying that is the solution, but maybe it reverses the problem?
 
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