I'm thinking about getting a drone to take on my adventure tourer on trips around NZ. My plan would be to load the camping gear in the panniers & bag on the rear seat and to put a drone & a D-SLR in the top-box where I could easily get at them whenever I wanted to create some video or photos.
I liked the look of the DJI Spark and the fact that it is small, but the DJI Mavic Air has a better camera, 3-axis gimbal instead of 2-axis and its arms fold in so that it is even smaller to pack on the bike. My income is reasonable and a DJI Mavic Air (Fly More Kit) would only cost me ~4 weeks of savings, that doesn't seem too bad. The Fly More kit comes with 3 batteries altogether which would be a help when travelling by motorcycle and staying at camp-grounds each night. I'd probably add a car charger to give me a way of charging one of the batteries while riding (put battery in tank bag and plug charger into it). Maybe a 4th battery too, since the charger can have 4 batteries plugged into it (it charges one then the next, not all at once).
Next year I'll be heading down to the South Island for 3-4 weeks for Bike Week, Vincent County Rally & Burt Munro Rally. With such great scenery down there I definitely want to have my D-SLR and a drone with me.
Here is an example of the sort of idea: https://youtu.be/Z2jUxTw_NVM?t=9m33s
Also: This year at the Burt Munro Rally there were way more people than at the previous one. I wanted to get a good photo of all the bikes & tents at the site, but unfortunately there is no hill overlooking the site to get a good shot from and I just didn't have a way of getting a good overview of the site in a photo. It would have be cool to be able to put a drone up and get some good shots of the massive group of bikes & tent set up there.
Does anyone else here take a drone on the bike when travelling? What drone and how do you find it?
Thoughts on the idea?
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