There are a lot of factors when dealing with obstacles around you while flying. If I know I'm going to be flying near walls or other things that could interrupt the props, I have prop guards that I can be put on.
I have smacked a canyon wall once, while "ridge walking" using my drone, luckily it survived, even after falling 20 feet and hitting a large rock at the bottom, but I was very lucky and no, didn't have the guards on that time. Terrain/obstacle avoidance would be a nice feature of a drone, give me sensors to let me know how far away I am on 3 axis and I'd be happy :) Even if it cost a bit of weight and lowered my flight time. On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Mixon Bill via Texascavers < texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > You'll notice that the video of using a drone for rigging has nicely > padded walls, presumably to protect the drone. Just yesterday I was talking > to a profession film maker who uses drones on his projects. He said drones > and canyons don't go well together, at least not when the drone is carrying > an expensive video camera. I would think trying fly a drone anywhere near a > cave wall would be a big problem. -- Mixon > ---------------------------------------- > A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. > ---------------------------------------- > You may "reply" to the address this message > (unless it's a TexasCavers list post) > came from, but for long-term use, save: > Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu > AMCS: a...@mexicancaves.org or sa...@mexicancaves.org > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers >
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