I remember eyebrows were raised when this was first proposed.
A vessel I worked on once had a film crew onboard taking footage for their project while we were operational.
They had this fancy looking drone (quite a few years ago when they weren’t very common) with a docking bay they positioned on the back deck. Apparently £10k worth of kit.
They explained it was programmed to launch, follow a predetermined pattern taking footage and then return to base automatically, with no operator required.
When the aerial filming was done, it started heading back towards the vessel and then plopped itself down in the sea a few meters from the vessel.
They didn’t bother asking for input from us. If they did, we’d have explained an anchored vessel, even with multiple active DP reference systems, still experiences a certain amount of movement with the sea state.
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I remember eyebrows were raised when this was first proposed.
A vessel I worked on once had a film crew onboard taking footage for their project while we were operational.
They had this fancy looking drone (quite a few years ago when they weren’t very common) with a docking bay they positioned on the back deck. Apparently £10k worth of kit.
They explained it was programmed to launch, follow a predetermined pattern taking footage and then return to base automatically, with no operator required.
When the aerial filming was done, it started heading back towards the vessel and then plopped itself down in the sea a few meters from the vessel.
They didn’t bother asking for input from us. If they did, we’d have explained an anchored vessel, even with multiple active DP reference systems, still experiences a certain amount of movement with the sea state.