Gender

Male

Location

Homosassa, FL

About Me:

I'm a fan of RC vehicles and I see quadcopters as just another RC vehicle. Like the nitro-powered gas planes you find roaring at 40-100+ MPH over any RC club field they are exciting. You can push the airframe and aircraft to limits you would never dare subject a multi-hundred thousand dollar manned aircraft to. I.e. helping train radar tracking teams is something we did as a hobbyist group at my old field. The military brought their aircraft and then needed a pilot while they tracked it with a truck-mounted radar system. Very fun and exciting hobby. More and more it is serious as RC is now used extensively in warfare, search and rescue, and other extended/dangerous/extreme environment missions. A drone implies no biological intelligence controlling the vehicle but its still just remote control. No different than your toy car, just $$$ and mission critical.

Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I am fascinated in using UAV for extended flight-time civilian aviation photography. I.e. taking high resolution aerial photos (within FAA rules and regulations for altitude and privacy etc). I'd like to utilize solar-powered aircraft to conduct sea/air/land searches ultimately. I am also fascinated with the idea of using remotely operated or semi-autonomous watercraft to conduct shallow sonar mapping. Primary goal at the moment is to obtain very high resolution photographs at high-noon along the Florida coast in search of valuable information for the public regarding the health of the ecosystem as well as to compose a book of high-res low-arial photographs of the interior coasts.

Hometown:

Citrus Springs, Florida