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Hi,

I want to do something but don't know how, please can someone give me some ideas? 

We will start building an UAV Plane next month that will carry a CX760 camera, mainly because it has a very good stabilization system even with the optical zoom at max, that is a must for a UAV. I will be using ardupilot and the frame will be probably a Mugin from fpvflying.com. 

Anyway, I'm still looking for ideas, and one thing that I need is the following. I want to control the camera (I already have the IR that controls zoom, etc) both tilt and pan from about 2-5km and I want to use a USB Surveillance camera joystick like this one: 

Or even a standard USB Joystick for games, doesn't matter. What I need is that a second operator can control the camera pan, tilt and zoom. I really don't have any idea how to do it, I don't want to use a RC Radio like Spektrum or Futaba because I want to keep the interface simple, just a joystick that the person can use. The joystick will be connected on the GCS notebook of course... with the plane itself I will be using APM + RFD900 + 1.3GHZ FPV and antenna tracker for both.  

Can someone help me on this? 

Thanks!