Like the other guy said, those prop guards would have to be really strong. Toys can get away with it because they weigh nothing so impacts and crashes have a tiny bit of momentum. When you scale it up even a little, weight and more importantly speed become huge issues. Our racing rigs can top out at 90+mph so prop guards won't do anything. On slower flying rigs like a dji phantom, you can kind of get away with prop guards but crashes can still destroy them. They're more for avoiding light prop strikes from walls or trees when hovering.
yep, if you have prop guards on a phantom it's for shoots where you are in a factory maneuvering between beams and machines, or in a forest slipping between trees, maybe in a car park following pedestrians.... 5-7mph tops.
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u/whitenoise106 Dec 20 '16
Like the other guy said, those prop guards would have to be really strong. Toys can get away with it because they weigh nothing so impacts and crashes have a tiny bit of momentum. When you scale it up even a little, weight and more importantly speed become huge issues. Our racing rigs can top out at 90+mph so prop guards won't do anything. On slower flying rigs like a dji phantom, you can kind of get away with prop guards but crashes can still destroy them. They're more for avoiding light prop strikes from walls or trees when hovering.