Hi, new member; fiction writer. So the book premise is that multiple nukes have detonated over America. EMP blasts, and the grid is down, etc... Full "SHTF", that sort of thing. If my drones and controllers were protected (Faraday cage) and still functioned, could I fly and use them? Meaning: could I still see video, without cell reception? Or is the video stuff dependent on cell towers? I want to have my group using some drones for security, but I don't want to write the whole book, and then get fact-checked by actual drone users, laughing at how unrealistic my tale is.
To be clear: I've never flown a drone, so I have zero knowledge. Let's say the GPS satellites are still functioning, but not the cell towers. Could anyone walk me thru what limitations I would be facing? Maybe certain features don't work properly; maybe the "return home" function doesn't work? Or maybe I can't get a video signal from the full distance of several miles...? Or maybe, everything works like normal.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Again: I don't want to write a great story, and then get laughed out for my lack of drone knowledge. I'm trying to make this as "real" as possible. I read a book where a nurse killed a man by injecting him with an air bubble..... in his shoulder, not into a vein. That's not how it works. lol... So you could tell that the writer had no medical experience at all.
I'd like to avoid a similar gaffe in my book. Please help......
Tom
To be clear: I've never flown a drone, so I have zero knowledge. Let's say the GPS satellites are still functioning, but not the cell towers. Could anyone walk me thru what limitations I would be facing? Maybe certain features don't work properly; maybe the "return home" function doesn't work? Or maybe I can't get a video signal from the full distance of several miles...? Or maybe, everything works like normal.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Again: I don't want to write a great story, and then get laughed out for my lack of drone knowledge. I'm trying to make this as "real" as possible. I read a book where a nurse killed a man by injecting him with an air bubble..... in his shoulder, not into a vein. That's not how it works. lol... So you could tell that the writer had no medical experience at all.
I'd like to avoid a similar gaffe in my book. Please help......
Tom
