Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers

Re:Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers by lwansbrough on Friday November 02, 2018 @11:04PM (#18368445)

Lots of drone people, so I’ll drop my off topic drone question: why isn’t gasoline more popular in the drone world? Isn’t the energy to weight ratio like 100x compared to LiPo?

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Re:Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers by snovv_crash on Saturday November 03, 2018 @05:49AM (#18369428)

1) noisy, messy, complicated and less reliable (no redundancy)

2) minimum size before it becomes a viable strategy

3) vibrations affect any cameras, requiring extra damping

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Re:Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers by Wingman4l7 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @03:41AM (#18369176)

Several teams, including the winning one in previous years, used gasoline for the UAV Outback Challenge, an annual UAV search-and-rescue competition: https://uavchallenge.org/

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Re:Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers by decebalus1 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @01:27AM (#18368876)

Not necessarily a drone person but I assume it's because a gas engine would have more moving parts hence more size and weight. There are drones running on gas but they're huge, not to mention loud.

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Re:Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers by colordrops on Saturday November 03, 2018 @02:55AM (#18369074)

LiPo has crossed the threshold into usefulness and electric storage will only get better.

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