Hovering to within 50ft
Looking for help with a concept.
I have a long term photographic detial that requres hovering at 1500 to 2000 feet for 20 minutes. Stable non drifting hover essential. Aircraft nose has to remain within an approximatly 50ft imaginary cube. We may be able to get away with 100ft cube if we go higher.
Roll and yaw movements will be corrected by camera gyro.
Orientation of aircrfat can be in any direction.
SO aircraft can be wobbling quite a bit it has to stay within the box.
Ideal aircraft choice for camera is AS355.
In the long term the Pilot aid would need to be derigable and installed in local aircfaft worldwide. We have experience in packaging kit and making it derigable including putting payloads on exterior of aircraft.
Short term we could play with doppler equipped helicopters.
Looking for ideas on how to do this!
Daytime flight.
Flights can be preplanned with ground assistance maybe something like home made papi lights would help???
Is some form of portable derigable doppler display possible? if we think it feasible for pilot to fly referring to this. (assuming doppler cant easily be integrated into an autopilot equiped AS355 as in AS555 version)
Larger helicopter with doppler autopilot could be considered as last resort but we will be over built up areas so noise is a big issue as is fitting our camera.
Mickjoebill