Cowes LNTM to keep clear of a drone!!!

Gixer said:
they're pretty boring to fly after a while...
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True!

I assume racing drones would be fun to fly (I used to have a work colleague who was into that) but the novelty wears off quite quickly with the more common camera type. They’re designed to take care of the flying so you can focus on the photography, and moving a camera up, down, left, right is not really all that exciting in itself.

Pete
 
Refueler said:
Are you aware that many drones are involved in Wildlife Conservation ?

The number of Hobby Pilots interfering with wildlife is miniscule and like the privacy issue - literally a non-starter and blown up up out of proportion to the actual reality.
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Of course, as I am actively involved in a number of conservation projects. Not that anyone ever listens, but I have said right from the start that I support "professional" uses of drones; commercial filming, surveys, wildlife monitoring, search & rescue and all the rest.

What I personally dislike is amateurs buzzing around making a nuisance of themselves. I visited a 6th century church recently on a remote headland, next to a contemplative community and, yes, what did I share my special, historical, spiritual & natural moment with? Yep, you guessed it.
 
If anyone is irresponsible enough to fly a drone with blades like carving knives close enough to your sails for you to even be able to hear the damn thing then he is probably in criminal breach of the law as he very well knows. I'd like to catch up with one such - who hovered his drone at length, presumably taking pictures, prettymuch between my shrouds while I was at anchor last year. Were I lucky enough to identify this individual he'd discover that piles are by no means the most painful affliction suffered by a bleeding @rsehole.
 
Gixer said:
I put drones in the same category as jet skis, they look a lot more fun than they are.
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Camera drones aren’t intended to be fun, they’re intended for taking photos. It’s a camera you can put in places that you can’t stand.

After years of never quite being bothered to put someone in the dinghy with a camera out at sea, I now finally have a range of nice stills and video of the boat under way, and also some nice angles of us at anchor in pretty surroundings.

Pete
 
prv said:
Camera drones aren’t intended to be fun, they’re intended for taking photos. It’s a camera you can put in places that you can’t stand.
Pete
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That's a fair point Pete and I did over look the photographic aspect, I did get some cool shots and video when I had my phantom. I guess I got to the stage when I couldn't be bothered to get it out or take it with me, drone footage does get a bit dull after a while. Kinda like my gopro :)

If I was doing a SV Delos type voyage I'd defo have one....
 
Bristolfashion said:
With all those carving blades, isn't there the danger of sushi? :)
(For those on this thread with a humour bypass, that is a joke)
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I can see why you had to point that out as it appears to lack the defining characteristic of a joke, ie being funny.

Actually looking back you appear to find causing damage or injury to others amusing, so I can see why you might think it so.
 
Blue Sunray said:
I can see why you had to point that out as it appears to lack the defining characteristic of a joke, ie being funny.

Actually looking back you appear to find causing damage or injury to others amusing, so I can see why you might think it so.
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And I can see that you have no sense of humour whatsoever - to the extent of not even recognising an attempt, however feeble.

Now, before I allow you to to cast aspersions, I made a joke asking about the best way to disable an annoying drone - so that is a joke about asking the best way to cause damage to property. At no time whatsoever did I make any threat, suggestion or humourous comment about causing injury.

The only threat of death and injury was from the drone wrangler and their spinning, carving knife prop blades.

Every reply to this thread makes me more determined to change my vague dislike of these things into concrete action - the current storm has given me an unexpected free day at anchor, so I'm starting today!
 
Gixer said:
That's a fair point Pete and I did over look the photographic aspect, I did get some cool shots and video when I had my phantom. I guess I got to the stage when I couldn't be bothered to get it out or take it with me, drone footage does get a bit dull after a while. Kinda like my gopro :)

If I was doing a SV Delos type voyage I'd defo have one....
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I have to agree that the 'novelty' wears off after a while and my P3P remains mostly in its backpack. I tried instilling a bit of interest by getting a couple of Racing Drones with full FPV ... but that soon lost appeal as well.
My P3P gets airing when there's something like my channel cleaning going on ... or I get asked to video a specific location / activity.

The 'proper' camera drones like DJI are actually boring to fly as they have full stabilisation, failsafe Return to Home .. Auto Land etc. My real RC love is that of RC airplanes - scale and aerobatic. But that's another world.

I do intend to widen my use pf the P3P to include videoing while I'm sailing ... some of the vids on YT are stunning ... hope I can approach even a part way to such quality.
For those who are interested ..... Camera Drones like DJI, Yuneec as example have various modes of flight but for the videoing of yacht under sail - three program setups are options :

1. Free flight where pilot determines the flight path ...
2. Follow me - where the drone is programmed to stay at particular azimuth .. distance .. height from the controller
3. Point of interest - where the drone circles the controller at user determined radius ... the centre of the circle being the controller moving of course - the drone will also move its 'circle' accordingly.

How do #2 and #3 work ? The Controller is reading not only the transmitted GPS of the drone - but also the GPS of the Tablet used as display. The software in the tablet then combines, calculates and sends out the command to the drone. Clever stuff !
 
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