Drone/quadcopter forum

[Fox Hunter]

Geoff,

Roughly how expensive are the ones that go out a mile?

Can they handle heavy winds and downpours?

Could you fly around and cover a whole farm looking for sheep in trouble lambing?

As you can guess I'm sitting here thinking I don't feel like going back out in the rain to go around to check the sheep

To get out to a mile you would probably need to spend £400 to £700 that would be with gps and RTH (return to home)which automatically returns the quad to it's take off point in case of any loss of sight etc.
You can buy much cheaper but it's much like NV you pay for what you need and suits you.
As for heavy winds no not really I would not use mine in much over 20mph,water resistant is more or less a no go although certain company's advertise as rain proof I'm not convinced to be honest.
I think it is only a matter of time till the big drone/quadcopter company's start building to target the landowners/farmers,were I fly on my permissions the owners often ask me to look over land that is over
grown or very difficult to access.
Another great thing I love is mapping,you can set destinations on Google were the the quad will fly to hover rotate if you set it to and take snaps or video,then move on to the next destination you have preset and so on.
Hope that answers a few of your questions as believe me I'm no expert and have made many costly mistakes.
Rgds Geoff

Thanks Geoff, they certainly sound like they could be of benefit to me but would probably be better off holding off for a while from what you are saying.
If you had a short video you wouldn't mind sharing I'd love to see what sort of heights you need to fly at and how detailed the pics are. No worries if not, I guess that would boil down to the camera not the quad anyway.