Quad that follows you home?

[ChrisH]

Came across this article. 

The future? 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2323761/The-drone-follow-home-Firm-reveals-personal-quadcopter-automatically-follow-owner-pictures-video.html

Interesting!

[powerlord]

Arducopter does that. It';s called ';follow me'; and uses a GPS enabled apm (eg my nexus 7)

[ChrisH]

Ah! That';s the thing with this hobby, so many options of things like FC';s that you have to put a stake in the ground and stick with one or two and can';t know them all!  It';s certainly an interesting option although those tracker options when it comes down out of sight sound more use!!   

Good to see a positive news items about the hobby anyway! 

[steve fh]

Just one small problem for them to over come called the Air Navigation Order 

[ChrisH]

As in lack of control and observer? It';s similar in some ways to the DJI RTH except it is deliberate instead of a failsafe.

[Hands0n]

So does RTH break the ANO then?  I suppose it probably must.  But surely thats got to be better than falling out of the sky and onto someone';s head.

[ChrisH]

Reckon that';s right if you want to look into the letter of it! I believe that the CAA require some form of RTH to be demonstrated for the BNUAC (or whatever the acronym is) flight test. So I would hope it must be an approved process.

As you say its preferable to crashing into a playing field full of kids! 

[powerlord]

I believe it is currently being discussed how in integrate Rth into the ano