choosing the most stable platform for AVP(aerial video) and FPV(first person view)

[kuzeydogun]

choosing the most stable platform for AVP(aerial video/photography) and FPV(first person view), live-cam tracking, real-time camera control?

Dear Friends

I am a chief police officer from turkey. We are starting a new project soon, in our town(adana, south of turkey ) for tourist safety. The name of the project is "helipolis". We will try to preapare a rc heli team for hovering throught the city. Our helis will hang out at the city and will look for troublemakers. The system we plan has transmitters placed along the city(up to 10 mile diameter area) and our electronic guys got their a/v transmitting/receiving system to work with.

Now we are at the state of finding the most suitable platform to work with. Our platform should carry a simple gps tracking module to get the coordinates, a nose cam for camera control as first person view, this nose cam is for livecam flight control. And a second moving cam for watching the city. The platform should hover at about 200m height, with a speed of 100km/h and with about 2 hours of flight time. The platform should also be easy to fly, very stable and predictable and strong across the wind. We do not need any 3d flight abilities but we need a clear flight, or we do not need lots of lbsss lifting capacity. I guess 2 or 3kg of lifting capacity is enough for extra modules. Keep in mind that the ship will be controlled at out of eye-contact range

Now dear RC friends, please give these old tech-poor police officers an idea for choosing the most suitable heli platform....we just cant find the right heliship??
A gasser helicopter, or a bergen gasser, maxum, an UAVP, a Mikrokopter, quadrocopter or any other heli brand or type????? give us a hand professionals please

Thanks for any replies guys and sorry for the poor english, tried to write my best, hope you understand....

Best wishes


Adana police Department of Turkey
Adana/TURKEY
msn: kuzeydogun@hotmail.com

[kuzeydogun]

any ideas rc/world???

Dont you think a bergen, condor, maxum or similar ship can answer our needs especially about stability??

[Aztek1701]

Hello There,

This is an interesting application for a Model Helicopter and I know that there are a number of initatives similar to this happening throughout the world. In fact you might want to consider contacting the UK Police regarding this because I believe they have recently begun trialing a similar but smaller device (I belive it was the midlands force).

If I might make some comments on your requirements in no particular order.
2 Hour duration. I am not aware of ANY model helicopter that has a loiter time of 2 Hours (30 Minutes is considered to be good with the average of around 10 Minutes).
GPS Module is easily fitted to a model helicopter.
Easy to fly. Whilst the larger model helicopters are EASIER to fly because of their size they are still not what I would consider to be easy to fly (you will need a specialised pilot) Along with this you are adding the additional complication of "out of visual range" so we are talking here about a machine that is being piloted in an unconventional manner so this is going to require a skilled specialised pilot.

One extra thing to bear in bind is that if you are operating a model helicopter over habitation at 200m and something bad goes wrong, you may end up killing the very people you are watching. Its for reasons like this that I wouldnt be at all surprised if you would be required to have your pilot and whatever machine you choose certified by your aviation body.

Unfortunately I dont think anything in the Leisure model world will satisfy your needs and you will need to look at a UAV to get anywhere near your requirements. I believe there are a number of companies specialising in this type of machine. If you put "Helicopter UAV" into google Im sure they will be listed.

Hope this helps... Azzy