Does anyone else wonder about how long this industry is going to last as a profitable enterprise?
Autonomous flight will be here at some point for alot of industrial applications anyway in the future so that creates a worry.
I was chatting to a local rival today who is well established and in the high end of the business engineering wise. It seems a nightmare full of gear snobs and he was all for it as it he said it promotes safety which i think is bull.
He was informing me inspection companies are now denying custom built units and want out of the factory units only.
That means your looking at falcon 8's and the likes which are sodding overpriced units that can be built for 15k less. He was explaining he had seen first hand companies basically bollocking operators for modding items and that they have lists now of off the shelf drones they want.
Combine factors like this with Dji been so greedy and locking off every new item to only new cameras etc and it makes for a pretty bleak future full of finance and constant upgrades just to keep up.
The m200 for example needs new EVERYTHING as it wont run the x5r, x3 etc and the batts etc etc. When its challenging enough to secure work stuff like this just scares me.
Whats your thoughts? Come on some good news to make me feel better about all this doom and gloom haha.
Cheers
Mick
Autonomous flight will be here at some point for alot of industrial applications anyway in the future so that creates a worry.
I was chatting to a local rival today who is well established and in the high end of the business engineering wise. It seems a nightmare full of gear snobs and he was all for it as it he said it promotes safety which i think is bull.
He was informing me inspection companies are now denying custom built units and want out of the factory units only.
That means your looking at falcon 8's and the likes which are sodding overpriced units that can be built for 15k less. He was explaining he had seen first hand companies basically bollocking operators for modding items and that they have lists now of off the shelf drones they want.
Combine factors like this with Dji been so greedy and locking off every new item to only new cameras etc and it makes for a pretty bleak future full of finance and constant upgrades just to keep up.
The m200 for example needs new EVERYTHING as it wont run the x5r, x3 etc and the batts etc etc. When its challenging enough to secure work stuff like this just scares me.
Whats your thoughts? Come on some good news to make me feel better about all this doom and gloom haha.
Cheers
Mick
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