This is a little out of the hobbyist league, but at the AUVSI convention, Procerus showed off its new gear, including the awesome Kestrel 3 autopilot. Check out the features above!
Here's a link to the pdf of all their new product offerings, and a little more info on pricing. Way out of our range, but a sense of where the pros are right now in terms of features and tech. Our ambition has always been to offer 90% of the functionality for 10% of the price of commercial gear. We're there on price, but still have a ways to go on features.
Professional gear tends to get way overbloated in the name of driving sales. There's no way a field operator could actually digest all the finely printed information in the modern ground stations or remember every feature in the modern waypoint lists. What was the option for 2 second camera intervalometer engine cutoff attitude hold? Professionals also can't take risks on things like sonar & 3DOF IMU's. They have to sell tried & true Kalman filters & full 9DOF AHRS's. At least Procerus managed to skip all the junk & go straight for tri rotors by waiting a few years. Adaptiveflight got stuck in T-Rex hell.
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Procerus always seem on top of the game, I like the new no moving parts PTZ as well, had to be the way to go.