DRONES

[Callum Baird]

Looking to purchase a Drone to check cattle and sheep on a remote hill farm in Scotland - weather can be extremely wet and windy and the drone will need to can be up in the air for a good hour to cover the unit - looking for recommendations from experienced users out there please?

 

[Suckndiesel]

Looking to purchase a Drone to check cattle and sheep on a remote hill farm in Scotland - weather can be extremely wet and windy and the drone will need to can be up in the air for a good hour to cover the unit - looking for recommendations from experienced users out there please?

That’s a lot to ask, wet windy weather flying and 1 hour flight time!

 

[tomg]

Think around 25 min is classed as a long flight. Drones or certainly my parrot bebop doesn't like strong wind. You can set a flight plan on it with Google maps and it will fly a route on its own. However when flying the drone to stay legal it should be in eyesight all the time.
Think you are asking quite a lot. You've also then got to downloaded the footage and sit for an hour watching the video.

 

[fermerboy]

Don't think there any drones that have an hour flying time, at least not unless you are in to serious proffessional ones.
I have a DJI Phantom 3, it will fly about 20mins, but less if you are cracking on forward. You can cover a lot of ground in 20mins though.
They all struggle in wind, I had mine up one day and discovered that it was really windy up in the air, and it basically at a standstill on the return trip, full chat forward and wasn't making and headway, had to drop it down low and walk towards it, got it before the battery died luckily.
As said you can get it to fly a route, but you will need to look at what its recorded.

 

[Guleesh]

I looked into this briefly and concluded it was too expensive and that the days that are good enough to fly a drone are also the days I don't mind taking the quad for a spin.

 

[Andrew]

You will cover a serious amount of ground in an hour, how many acres are you looking after? Don't forget to be legal your drone must be in eyesight at all times, would it be much of an issue to come back to base and change a battery halfway through? My Mavic Air has a 30 minute flight time.

They all hate wet / windy weather though, that may be the killer. The cattle are also quite wary of my drone, they seem to think it's a swarm of bees or something and go and stand in the building if they hear it, although I'm sure they'd get used to it if I used it more often.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Think around 25 min is classed as a long flight. Drones or certainly my parrot bebop doesn't like strong wind. You can set a flight plan on it with Google maps and it will fly a route on its own. However when flying the drone to stay legal it should be in eyesight all the time.
Think you are asking quite a lot. You've also then got to downloaded the footage and sit for an hour watching the video.

In my research I got the impression that you can watch live on the monitor attached to your transmitter. Is this not the case? I didn't get beyond researching it.

 

[Cowcalf]

would a drone be useful for harassing ravens, some local would relish the task

 

[The Seeker]

No drone will do an hr in the wet sorry , I have a mavic pro and I get 23 minutes flight time - including return to home in still conditions in a wind you’ll get half that if it flys at all. I can look 200 acres on a still night but no more as you always need to get back too. The tec is there but if we all had drones that could fly for an hr that might be a dangerous prospect. Buy a nice user drone from drones direct and if you feel flush but the goggles too