Sorry if this has been done before, I looked but didn’t see anything.
I have really been enjoying the section on “wrapping your bird”. It’s something I am considering for my Mini, but I am struggling with “style over substance”. I love some of the coloring and the carbon fiber effects, but how easy are these to see from a distance. My Mavic Mini is what I could best describe as “sky grey” - which makes it bloomin awful trying to keep in sight. I have been toying with the idea of the fluorescent lime or yellow skins, but am not sure how well these will be seen at a distance.
Does anyone have any information on what makes a good colour scheme for high visibility.
Personally I’d stay with the darker skins, the sky nine times out of ten is light even if it is grey, therefor easier to see. Never seen a high vis wrapped bird so can’t really comment but being a wrapper I can’t see it being very visible at distance.
Actually I just mentioned elsewhere that I ordered a test strobe that’s run off a small LiPo or button battery. I like the strobe idea, however, I am unsure of the legality of adding a strobe to a drone. I suspect that someone somewhere will take offense and then the Bow Street runners will get a phone call.
It’s funny, I was considering a chrome skin (not that I’ve found one yet) but it dawns on me that that might be a very bad idea given the potential signal and magnetometer interference etc.
You are correct … I have flown many fast slope soarers gliders in hi viz and to be honest . it did not help . Darker the better even black is better for visibility . especially at 80 mph fly by’s.
Yeah, dark seems to be the general consensus. I guess I was coming at it from the perspective of “If it’s dark how to I find it again if I need to put it on the ground in an emergency”? I guess that most would point to the “Find My Drone” feature to address that.
OMG, I’ll join you in that one (feeling old with that posting). You know, they were showing “Flight Of The Navigator” recently on one of the Freeview channels.
The RAF paint their training aircraft black - because after many years of trying different combinations they have decided that black is the most visible colour.
However adding two or three Strobon Cree strobes to your bird will also help enormously in terms of maintaining visual contact with it!!
I got a yellow/black cammo wrap from a company here in the uk called Dronewrapz and it makes a difference when flying against a grey sky/sea/looking down from above ( hills, etc.) Still looking for a decent strobe for my Mavic air 2 though.
