PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Can a drone do your job?
View Single Post
Old 19th Feb 2019, 08:11
  #15 (permalink)  
SuperF
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: New Zealand
Age: 52
Posts: 395
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Agricultural work, around stock. Good luck getting a drone to do that, faster and cheaper than a human.

fire fighting, actual bucketing, not going to happen, simply because the drones/kmax costs so much more than a human doing the work.

Maybe you will will tell me it’s not all about money, but for farmers, price and reliability of service, along with not hurting their hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock are all important.

on firefighting, as Gordy said, they cannot hit a target on a flat paddock on a calm day, not sure how they will handle picking the target, which changes every time, then hitting it in swirling winds on a hillside. Often the best view of what to hit is by the guy closest, so that means the computer has to find the target, then decide which is the best to hit then actually hit it. Good luck
SuperF is offline