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Originally Posted by EdFNJ

My guess is he doesn’t. Since he’s using “autonomous” software I would guess he just programs in the route, says bye-bye and waits for it to (hopefully) return home by GPS. Seems to work great. [emoji106]

Actually, I use a Firehouse Technologies Strobe kit and sometimes a spotter depending on the location I'm flying in. As most of what I'm flying over lately is empty land it's pretty easy to see. The remote give me direction on where to look for the aircraft if I loose track of it and the strobes help a lot. I've been blessed with pretty good vision as well, which some of the guys I golf with don't seem to appreciate.

The autonomous flight software is mainly used for smooth filming as it can perform smooth transitions in direction, altitude, and camera angle in flight much better than I can. Almost every autonomous flight is flown manually two or three times before I let the aircraft and software run free with the programed path. Yesterday's flight between SR44 and the Turnpike was only about 11 minutes actual flight time, setup and check flights took well over an hour and burned through two batteries (25 min flight time each battery) making sure the flight and aircraft were safe at the 150 foot altitude of the first leg of the flight.