Thank you for sharing your adventure with us! As you've just shown, it is amazing what information can be gathered with $1 to $2 K worth of funds as well as investing serious time learning how to fly the Drone to send it out as well as get it back. I can feel my body ache just thinking of hiking all of that country and still not finding all of what was shown in that one flight..................63bkpkr
I got this one used, and with accessories/extra batteries I'm at about $800. It saves an amazing amount of time, cuts and scrapes, and joint pain. A little (or a lot) of time on the internet researching and using sites like MyLandMatters.org, knowing your area, and a lot of on site work will get you a gold mine. Heck, I've only been in the game now for 3 years and we've got 5 different properties including our patent which is proving to be the hottest patch of dirt we've got.
Goodyear Mine which has the Shade Adit
Queen & Jack of Spades property that has multiple adits/shafts
Wolverine Mine with a dang good dump on it
The Rock Quarry - our patent
Stanton Property which we really haven't explored at all.
We've completely dropped the Green Mountain Mine, just not enough there to work with, and too dang much arsenic.
Another great video.
Does the software record GPS positioning during the flights? If it does it sure would be helpful for ground searches to points of interest especially if there is a lot of dense ground cover to navigate.
Good luck.
It might record GPS; it does have a built-in flight recorder. For us though, we usually know where we're going with it. If we find something new, like the gopher hole and the trench, we can come back to Google Earth and use landmarks to lock down the location of the feature.
I did another recon of the 467 this past weekend as well, coming in from the north rather than the south mountaintop. Along the way I found this...
Went back on Google Earth since I knew the flight path, and got that location's GPS. Not sure if we'll ever look at it in person, that hike is uglier than Rosie O'Donnell rear end in a thong after Wednesday morning's Taco Tuesday revenge explosion.
I don't have the P4 yet but have a few P3 pro's. I bought some wrecks off of Ebay and fixed them up. A lot of fun!!
