The model matching my requirements was found quickly...the selection is quite small, if you demand high quality photos. The only model in a price range up to 1500 CHF is the DJI Mavic2 Pro. The useful package for us would come to around 2500 CHF (additional batteries, filters, spare rotor blades, car charger, repair kit, etc.)
So far for the idea.
Of course I imagine already great shots of our "Muni", dragging a dust plume behind, in the plains in Kazakhstan...or as we visit Lake Balaton in Hungary (the copter would then slowly back from the close-up of Lorenz and me standing on the shore and fly away and pull up to make the great landscape visible.)
Or the hell gate, the gas fire in Turkmenistan, I would like to film at dusk.
But before I begin to clarify the financing issue, I informed myself about the country-specific laws on the use of multicopters.
I have consulted two websites: the travel blog of Bina and Francis and Luftaufnahme.net .
The situation is as follows:
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| Quelle: https://my-road.de/drohnen-gesetze-weltwei |
No Problem.
In Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan, importing multicopters is prohibited. Major PROBLEM.
In Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia you can only fly with license, insurance and registration at the Air Traffic Office, resp. the military airspace surveillance.
Big problem.
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| Quelle: https://www.google.com/maps |
So far, I have not found any information for Mongolia.
Problem?
After gathering this information, I declare the mission "Drone Photography" dead. The procedure of filling out forms in each country and in the national language, probably letting me spend hours or even days in government offices and being exposed to the whims of the respective officials, and possibly being forced to inconspicuously push a Bakshish, and then always staying in control is simply too time-consuming. Such an effort I would operate if I explicitly wanted to make a travel documentary from the air ... but to take a few pictures from time to time is not worth it - especially since I do not know before, where it would be worthwhile.
Of course, aerial photography would make both me and you as a viewer / reader from afar great pleasure ... an air conditioning, a swimming pool and a sauna would also be great.
So we can use all the time we would've spent on multicopter flying, maintaining, searching, repairing and hiding for other, perhaps more comfortable things.
