Successful drone intercept, maybe?

[Alex Fraser]

I had it all planned out. Launch one drone on a programmed flight that 
would go to 200' and just sit there like a good target.  I had planned 
for a video shot with the gimbal pointed down to catch the chase machine 
coming up to intercept.  The chase machine was to be manual control the 
whole time.

How it went.  The target machine would not execute the pre planned 
mission, so I flew it up to 200' and parked it in the sky (hands off 
hover in place).  Of course I forgot to tilt down the gimbal and turn on 
the video on till later.  The chase machine was already to go and 
connected so I put down the target machine control and picked up the 
chase machine controller and flew it up to 200' indicated and close as 
my old eyes would safely allow.  My new sunglasses flip up reading glass 
rig only made the sun glare on the screens brighter.  I never saw the 
other machine on the down link video so I shotgunned around as the 
cameras were running.  For about 3 minutes of video from each machine I 
did manage to catch a 1 second view from the target 's video and about 2 
seconds from the chase.  Basically they were almost white blurs.  I will 
try to edit and present on TacoZoom.  I need screen hoods, better 
antennas and a 24 year old's eye site.  Standing in the shade would be 
nice too....
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