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Seeking Climbing Photo/Videographer,Blue Mountains 18-Sep-2013 At 11:13:19 AM strerror

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Actually I'll slightly derail this with a question, would you be interested in having a drone do this work? For some time I've been setting about building a drone for the purposes of climbing photography. There are a number of technical issues and legal ones (need to get a license to do commercial aerial photography), however, in essence it's a very neat solution to climbing photography in general. In particular I'm relatively close to being able to have a climber carry an IR bubble (think usb pen drive emitting infrared / bluetooth signal), and programming a drone to be able to hover say 10m (legal distance is 30m but with various licenses etc) away from the climber as they climb up a cliff. Assuming I can address all the obvious safety concerns (and there are a lot!), would something like that be of interest to people here? Or would you find the noise of the drone to be too distracting / uncomfortable with the idea?
Some vids to give you an idea:
http://robotics.asu.edu/ardrone2_ibvs/