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Hairyloon
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Hairyloon
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Hairyloon
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 17 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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onemanband wrote: |
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All seems to me to be built on blind faith and optimism.
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Ah, the Brexit model |
Sounds about right. I'm hoping that someone will come along and point out what I've missed, but no joy on that so far...
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Another quick search shows a £100 drone is a toy. £500-£1000 might get you something half decent. £5000-£10000 for professional kit. |
Could I trouble you for links to what you've found?
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It's one thing, say, buying some basic gardening kit for volunteers to clear some ground, it's another to spend a few hundred on a drone which may crash and burn... |
I'm slightly confused by your comparison there; did you change tack halfway through the point? I'm prone to that, but since you've brought it up, that is the other thing that bothers me about this proposal: very limited scope for volunteers to engage. If they get the funding it will have to go to a big firm to do the work.
I'd start off with ground works which anybody can get involved with, and from that you can pick out and train teams to tackle (or at least help with) the more difficult work.
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If you want amateur pics then you could just ask around, find someone with a toy drone.
I guess professional pics are required to sell the project to the big investors. |
It is not yet clear for why the aerial photography is wanted. Perhaps I am too cynical, but the flashier the presentation, the more I look at what they are hiding...
And if I was an investor, I'd be looking at cost effective use of resources: over 10% of the budget on presentation before there is anything to present doesn't seem good to me... |
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