Comments on: Drones: A Prepper’s Guide https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/drones-for-preppers/ Chance Favors The Well Prepared Sun, 12 Feb 2017 20:32:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Chris Ruiz https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/drones-for-preppers/#comment-8034 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:11:15 +0000 http://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/?p=3009#comment-8034 In reply to L.A.West.

I think that day is coming very soon. There are all sorts of places you can order parts from or get DIY manuals.

]]> By: L.A.West https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/drones-for-preppers/#comment-8027 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 04:16:38 +0000 http://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/?p=3009#comment-8027 In reply to L.A.West.

Also – screw FAA laws and rules. A personal drone would be a pirate craft running illegally – just like an unlicensed and uninsured vehicle. Trust me on this – that day is fast coming too. Clever fabricators will build illegal flying crafts and operate them during SHTF and TEOTWAWKI times. Might as well start thinking along those lines now and get ahead of the curve and have one or two ready to go.

]]> By: L.A.West https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/drones-for-preppers/#comment-8026 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 04:07:06 +0000 http://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/?p=3009#comment-8026 Consider an electric powered R/C airplane as well. Many have the power and capacity to carry about a real time camera. What they can’t do is hover – yet they can fly quite a distance on one charged up battery pack and achieve some altitudes that makes them nearly impossible to detect.
They are very quiet too. R/C helicopters are cool too, but from what I have observed, some of the R/C electric powered aircraft are like high flying hawks in the air.
One a another note = I am looking forward to the day when enterprising engineers and creative garage mechanics – copy drone technology on a larger scale and make them have the ability to carry one person up to 200 lbs , running on small powerful gas engines. Some of the current hover crafts are ungainly huge monsters and are noisier than hell. What with ultra light weight materials that are also strong, and all of the various types of gasoline engines that power everything from snow throwers to personal watercraft’s – computer technology, it is puzzling that no one as of yet has come up with a personal drone craft. If guys can put together the most outrageous rat rods from nothing but junk piles, then coming up with a personal drone you can fly in the air up to 2,500 feet should have happened by now. just a thought.

]]> By: Chris Ruiz https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/drones-for-preppers/#comment-6017 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 23:44:03 +0000 http://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/?p=3009#comment-6017 In reply to Scott.

Thanks for the ideas Scott. As the technology develops over the next few years, it will be easier and easier to do things like that!

]]> By: Scott https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/drones-for-preppers/#comment-6013 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:24:30 +0000 http://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/?p=3009#comment-6013 I read a lot of prepper fiction to generate scenarios for my preps. In one book (sorry, forgot the name) they use drones for route reconnaissance during their bug out. They sent up the drone at intersections, to check for ambushes behind hills, and to check the outskirts of cities they were approaching. Think of it as a robotic bounding overwatch! They eventually ran afoul of some bad guys and used the drone for raid planning on the bad guy’s hideout. For the reasons in this article (great neighborhood watch assistance), and that book, a drone has made my “would be cool to have” prep wish list.

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