Mounted search and rescue

["Thor Burfine" <thor@cpcinc.net>]

I think the FAA would be hard pressed to regulate them, I am building one for myself and it is based on nothing more than an RC chopper.

 

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Thorton K. Burfine
thor@cpcinc.net
Creative Process Consultants
C – 832-651-6328
F – 832-550-2749

 

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From: msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of ALLEN SNYDER
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:04 AM
To: Mounted search and rescue
Subject: Re: [MSAR] info needed, please

It is also my understanding that the FAA wants to regulate the use of 
UAVs in part for safety reasons.  They are a great tool, but have 
limitations in forested areas.  Dana Snyder, CAP

IRVIN 
LICHTENSTEIN <ilichten1@verizon.net> wrote: 
> There 
>   has been considerable push to use military like technology in 
>   law
> enforcement. The primary difference between a bomb robot that 
>   civilian
> police use and one the military uses is that the military may arm 
>   theirs
> with a large caliber machine gun for instance. 
>
> Many of the 
>   smaller, tactical, UAVs (we used to call them drones) can be
> used by police 
>   in place of manned helicopters. They are in use today by the
> Border Patrol 
>   and Coast Guard. Compared to a 3 man crew and a police copter
> with FLIR 
>   they are cheap with a entire unit costing less than several hours
> operation 
>   of the manned bird. A TV News quality link is not required, and
> in many 
>   cases full motion video is not used but time lapsed surveillance
> video 
>   after the fact. The same privacy concerns envelop these devices as
> manned 
>   aircraft. The primary difference is that they are lower and slower,
> and 
>   much smaller. You don't need a Global Hawk to watch downtown, even 
>   a
> Pioneer will do it, and they are surplus now. 
>
> And danger has 
>   little to do with it anymore. The UAV is now small and
> stealthy while the 
>   satellite is large and not stealthy and takes 12 hours to
> get there. The 
>   advantage is that most military recon UAVs can stay on
> station for days, 
>   which is hard on a pilot. It is a lot easier to take
> pictures from lower 
>   altitudes and process direct video than it is to go to
> over a 100000 feet 
>   and film or tape. The first big use of recon drones was
> during Vietnam when 
>   Firebee target drones were used over the north. The
> Israelis also used 
>   similar drones to fake out the Egyptian and Sryian Air
> Forces. 
>
> Andy 
>   Shecktor of GPSR mounted a slow scan TV camera in a RC helicopter in
> the 
>   late 1980's which had a range of a mile or two as an experiment but I
> don't 
>   think it was ever used for real. 
>
> Irv Lichtenstein 
>   
>
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