Comment by Jack Crossfire on June 22, 2008 at 2:25pm

This autocopter was $100,000 last year. He's losing money by selling it for $12,500. The turbine airframe + engine is over $7000. Then there's the $1000 GPS unit, $1000 ground station, $1000 electronics, 5 days of training. He's either moving to newer airframes & unloading surplus for 90% discounts or business sux.

Comment by rad man on June 22, 2008 at 6:02pm

Thats exactily why we should sell our UAVs because.......their cheaper and more expendable and easily manufactured and only require moderate to expert piloting skills! Also I would not buy a $100,000 aircraft just to spray crops and do areial reconnassans (I can't spell right now so give me a break I am temporarly dislexic)

Comment by Frank Cates on June 25, 2008 at 1:08pm

Was it $100K? I looked at one of these a while back and thought it was around $20K but maybe my memory is faulty. I do remember pricing the complete Carvec package last year at $14.5K for the smaller of the two systems they offered. These things are rather pricey. The ebay ad says the reserve has not yet been met so I think I will watch this and see what it goes for. All of that said, if I had that kind of money I would buy it.

Comment by rad man on June 25, 2008 at 1:17pm

If that bird went down I would be devistated!

Comment by Frank Cates on June 27, 2008 at 7:24am

Well, I watched the final few minutes of bidding and it did not sell. There was only 1 bid and it did not meet the reserve.

Comment by wayne garris on June 27, 2008 at 8:34am

welcome to the reality of being a uav pilot . we just flew a $35,000 uav for the customer in front of 50 people at a much higher 'tud then im used to. want to talk about stress and pressure ? then lets throw in a Microsoft update that was skewing up the sim and replay feature on our ground station .

Comment by Patrick Egan on June 27, 2008 at 10:09am

I m sure I’m not alone in having reservations about combining UAS and Windows based software. Danger Will Robinson!

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