From:  Christian Menge 
Subject:  [Paparazzi-devel] Hello! 
Date:  Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:28:58 -0700 (PDT) 

Guys,

Just a quick hello, I'm new to the site, I thought I would 
introduce myself and tell you about my experience and goals. 

I worked as a rotoray and fixed wing pilot and flight engineer 
in Canada for just about 9 years. Most commercial helicopter 
operations in Canada involve VERY isolated locations. The largest 
helicopter operators are based in the Arctic, Yellow Knife, NWT. 
This is a very cold and difficult place to live, most of my 
contracts involved forest fires, animal tracking, maintenance 
of government research facilities, oil, gas, NORAD, etc. 

I was tired of the poor conditions and decided to move into 
computers. Over the last six years I have been working as a C 
developer and technical manager for several different simulation 
companies. 

Recently I have had a strong urge to become involved with 
aviation again and I was thinking UAV's might be cool. I live 
in a city with lots of crime, drugs, prostitution, etc. Having 
a UAV that patrols some of the streets providing visual assistance 
to police, fire is a good idea and I'm surprised this is not 
being done by others. 


My goal would be to possibly provide some type of surveillance 
platform that could quickly move from one area to another and 
provide real time video from the sky looking down at the streets 
below. 

Has this been done by anyone in the past?

Cheers!


Christian

From:  Antoine 
Subject:  Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Hello! 
Date:  Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:59:57 +0200 
User-agent:  Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060516) 

Hi Christian

Welcome onboard !

Seems like others had similar ideas about law enforcement UAVs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5051142.stm

Best Regards

Antoine

Christian Menge wrote:

> Guys,

> Just a quick hello, I'm new to the site, I thought I would 
> introduce myself and tell you about my experience and goals. 

> I worked as a rotoray and fixed wing pilot and flight engineer 
> in Canada for just about 9 years. Most commercial helicopter 
> operations in Canada involve VERY isolated locations. The largest 
> helicopter operators are based in the Arctic, Yellow Knife, NWT. 
> This is a very cold and difficult place to live, most of my 
> contracts involved forest fires, animal tracking, maintenance 
> of government research facilities, oil, gas, NORAD, etc. 

> I was tired of the poor conditions and decided to move into 
> computers. Over the last six years I have been working as a C 
> developer and technical manager for several different simulation 
> companies. 

> Recently I have had a strong urge to become involved with 
> aviation again and I was thinking UAV's might be cool. I live 
> in a city with lots of crime, drugs, prostitution, etc. Having 
> a UAV that patrols some of the streets providing visual assistance 
> to police, fire is a good idea and I'm surprised this is not 
> being done by others. 


> My goal would be to possibly provide some type of surveillance 
> platform that could quickly move from one area to another and 
> provide real time video from the sky looking down at the streets 
> below. 

> Has this been done by anyone in the past?

> Cheers!


> Christian


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