On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:43:36 -0400, Wes wrote:

"RogerN" wrote:

There are some nice videos on youtube of FPV RC (first person view). Are
you planning to fly from the camera view?

I just would like to take aerial pictures.

There are some video goggles and
head tracking sensors that let you fly the model and the camera will pan and
tilt as you turn your head. I've read that one problem for new pilots is
flying the model out of range. This isn't a problem most R/C heli flying
since it's generally in range if you can see it, but the FPV stuff, you can
fly beyond line of sight, lose signal and :-( I saw they have equipment now
that works with GPS, if you fly your model out of range, it's supposed to
automatically return to the take off point. This stuff could be kind of
scary if you realize how it could be abused... a GPS guided aircraft is not
that far off from a cruise missile, now add a .45 and video recognition
software... For a test I sent one out to capture TMT and it came back with
a box of Hostess Ding Dongs :-)


GPS and explosives, that would make a nasty combination.

Ding Dongs you say, I'd have thought you would have got a Nutty Bar
http://www.chocablog.com/wp-content/...utty-bar-1.jpg


ayumm yumm! One of my favorite treats!!

Gunner


Wes

"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in
liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked
passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us
today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement,
reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit
the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno