Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: COndor06 on August 12, 2014, 06:59:57 AM
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Our company has recently been selected to provide a data base of flight videos for private and commercial properties covering most of the US coastal states. These flights gather monthly information of current property conditions prior to any storm events. After a storm event we provide damage assessment data so our client can file detailed claims for federal assistance.
Our fully autonomous aircraft are very easy to fly and flight training is only two-three days. Most of these flights would be with a quad rotor system. I came here because I have been a member of Aces High (and these boards) for many years and have found most people here to have a lot of aviation knowledge. My thinking here is to open a line of discussion for our community of aviation enthusiast before taking this opportunity to the public arena.
If any of you guys are interested you can go to the website and fill out the short form on the contact page. We won't be announcing this publicly until late next week.
WARNING: No Dogfighting, formation flying, or flying through hangers will be allowed. (Not yet anyway)
Fred@CondorAerial.com
www.CondorAerial.com (http://www.CondorAerial.com)
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Sent a Contact for you. Sounds like an important task to document property for insurance companies. It would have been useful before Hurricane Sandy hit. We are still rebuilding here and many properties are still uninhabitable. Flood waters were within 1/4 mile from my home but luckily my property was high and dry.
Let me know If I can help with the Jersey shore area.
Dan
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There are a lot of Municipalities that are all learning the hard way these days. If you don't have documented evidence of the damage prior to the event you are not going to get the federal funding you need to rebuild. Beach erosion, flooding, and wind, are no longer taken for granted as obvious damage results. You have to have hard facts to get the required federal funding now.
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Would that be including the coastline of the Great Lakes or just oceanic at this point?
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interesting. Does it pay?
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Can I fly over the internet?!!!?! :aok :P
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Sounds cool. First question is what GScholz said, can I do it from home or would I have to go to the other side of the U.S.? Second, do you require any kind of experience or knowledge beyond basic stuff? And of course third, does it pay?
I would think that it should be possible to fly them over the intardweebs. As he said they are very autonomous, so you shouldn't have to worry about them crashing if you lose connection or something.
So no flying through hangars, ok what about under bridges? :D
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I would think that you w\have to be in the survey area to launch it.
shamus
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If they're armed, count me in! :)
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If you need a guy in central MI count me in! :aok
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Hey fellas, I have not received a single e-mail notice that anyone was responding to this thread. Don't know why but that's the reason for my late delay.
Flying our systems requires you to be on location. They have to be launched and recovered or the FAA would just implode if they thought we were sending these out via a console sitting at home on our computers. That doesn't mean they won't do that but its not what we do.
They have up to 25 mile range and 4 hours flight time for our military clients. For the asset protection portion of what we do its a little different. We have to be on location to monitor the flight as well as any surrounding potential problem areas.
Flight training is a 4 day process to learn enough about the system to be mission capable. Once you understand their operation they are pretty simple to fly. They will fly and land autonomously but in tight areas we prefer to land them manually. The controls will not allow you to turn past 39 degrees and the elevator control won't allow you to stall it. Much less loop it.
We have pilot positions as well as distributor positions. If you have an interest in finding out more just go to the website www.CondorAerial.com (http://www.CondorAerial.com)
Go to the contact page and submit a request for Pilot/Distributor positions. You will receive an information packet that will fill in all the details.
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I'm an idiot. Didn't turn on the notification tab. Didn't think you had to do that if you opened the thread yourself. :furious
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It's alright, we all have days like that. :bhead
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I responded and thanks for the info you sent back. :aok
Hope to hear from you soon. :salute Slate
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I sent you an email.
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Hey Slate, Yup, I got it. We are working on pilot programs right now. I will get back with you shortly.
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RC pilot and soon to be aviation maintenance tech. What locations will this take place?
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Most of the coastal properties of the US for now. Thats where the most trouble is with storm damage.
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Do the workers get to keep all the 'accidental' bedroom/shower shots as a company perk? :devil
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PM sent
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Are the great lakes considered coastal area's?
shamus
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Yes, but the reduced risk of a hurricane blowing in off of one of them kinda puts the area in a lesser priority group. :lol