RE: the prefect platform for aerial photography
Jettpilot:
The receiver that cop or lawmate offer is a good unit. the key is to control the pic in the receiver.
If you look inside your receiver you will see the receiver case or tin and the conntroler board.
on the control board you will find an eprom that sets the channel I.E. the frequency that the unit operates on based on the jumper or switch settings.
If go on line to 13cm.co.UK/ and look at the Steve Drury TX/Rx controller you will get a better idea of how this works.
You asked why I do not use gas engines on my planes when I set them up as AP or UAV's.
-- gas engines vibrate way to much. ( no-mater what, you can not get all the vibration out of the equation it is a problem why add to it?)
-- a glow engine can run on JP4 with a Little adjustment at over 8 miles up. (Ref, sky scout project I worked on back in 1989)
If you need a good large glow look at RCV engines from the UK.
I use the 91 and the 120 on a few platform, they are the bench mark in reliability for long range flying.....
on a different note.
I will post picts of the video feed from the system in the morning.
cheers