Hi guys, just getting back into multi's after a while out of it and want to get going with a professional rig, what would you buy/ build with a budget of £10-£15k? what flight controller, airframe, gimbal etc and what camera would you want. It would be for professional AP use. How would you say a high level "hobby" type rig like this would compare to say an Asctec Falcon 8 or other commercial unit? Are there any units out there that will geotag your images together with gyro readouts from the IMU's? Thanks for your help guys.
This is what I did:
After a long search, comparing different rigs (mainly Droidworx and Cinestar) I came along this Copter:
http://www.multirotorforums.com/sho...-octocopter-quot-KRATOS-quot&highlight=kratos
This is a pic how it looks like before shipping:
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It includes the frame, legs, detachable arms, LED's, ESC's, Motors, Power Distro Board.....just about everything, exept Flight Control, Props, Lipo's (you can get GensAce from them if you like) and Gimbal. The price for that set-up will be arround 5.000 Euros, which is compared to a similar set-up from Droidworx or Cinestar absolutely great, althought price was not the main reason for my decision.....
The people at Flexacopter (they are in the Netherlands) are just uncomparable helpful and nice....if you want some special modifications (like to use the Droidworx retractable landing gear or possibility to mount a Zenmuse) they would do it for you.....
With the remaining money from your budget you should not have too many troubles to choose a Flight Control and a Gimbal....I am going to use the ZeroUAV YS-X6 since I have it already sitting at home and Flexacopter used it with great success, which makes tuning a lot easier. As for the gimbal, I have a Cinestar 3-Axis Gimbal with Radian gimbal stabilizer at home as well, and since it will take a while until there is a out-of-the-box compareble brushless gimbal avalible, I will hold on to what I have.....once tuned it will give great results....could also mount my Zenmuse gimbal to the Copter....
If this not your type of rig, talk to the guys at kopterworx (
http://www.kopterworx.com/) .....they really know what they are talking about and wouldn't sell you anything just to make sales....
As for Geo-tagging, you might have to use a camera with built-in GPS or (depending on your camera) use something like this:
http://www.gisteq.com/phototrackr/phototrackr-plus-n.php or this:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2291423,00.asp
Chris