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Sure, which is why I suggested this only for the mid-to-large "classes". I have flown several myself, all the way from the CX-10 (< 12g), to a custom 800 size (
by matheweis 11y ago
Sure, which is why I suggested this only for the mid-to-large "classes". I have flown several myself, all the way from the CX-10 (< 12g), to a custom 800 size (> 3kg range). The high end of that could handle an extra 100g without much fuss. The high end of that is also what the airlines are most worried about.
Granted there is some grey area in the 300-500 size copters, where they are large enough to possibly cause some minor damage to an aircraft, but small enough that the weight of an additional TX would pose an issue.
The registration being proposed by the DOT/FAA isn't going to help with these either; they are quite simply too small for any "tail numbers" to be visible at any distance that matters.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoHow about requiring a POV (persistence of vision) display on such a drone? At a cost of few additional LEDs (or even not, if you reuse onboard ones) and some CPU cycles you could have the drone flash its serial number in a way visible on cameras as the drone moves around.
- tomswartz07 11y agoThat's still a large amount of weight to carry on a device. There are 250 class quadcopters that are built for First Person View racing. Races are won and lost because of the difference in a few grams of extra weight. Any extra weight you add to a device reduces the flight time of the battery.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI think that quadcopters used for FPV racing generally don't appear in the areas where drone identification would be a need.
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