Guys,
Just a quick hello, I'm new to the site, I thought I would introduce myself and tell you about my experience and goals.
I worked as a rotoray and fixed wing pilot and flight engineer in Canada for just about 9 years.
Most commercial helicopter operations in Canada
involve VERY isolated locations. The largest helicopter operators are
based in the Arctic, Yellow
Knife, NWT. This is a very cold and difficult place to live, most of my
contracts involved forest fires, animal tracking, maintenance of government
research facilities, oil, gas, NORAD, etc.
I was tired of the poor conditions and decided to
move into computers. Over the last six years I have been working as a C
developer and technical manager for several different simulation companies.
Recently I have had a strong urge to become involved with aviation again and I
was thinking UAV's might be cool. I live in a city with lots of crime, drugs,
prostitution, etc. Having a UAV that patrols some of the streets providing
visual assistance to police, fire is a good idea and I'm surprised this is not
being done by others.
My
goal would be to possibly provide some type of surveillance platform that could
quickly move from one area to another and provide real time video from the
sky looking down at the streets below.
Has this been done by anyone in the past?
Cheers!
Christian