PD Heli camera

The camera lock system for Heli is extremely frustrating to deal with at times. The way the camera lock works is you hold the ‘X’ in the camera over a car to start locking on to it, but its super inconsistent while being just too slow. Any obstruction will break the lock progress, but also any person in the car your trying to lock.. If there is a car with 4 people in it, it’s almost impossible to lock on to the car because if the camera were to move over where anyone in the car is seated, it resets the bar even though you’re still aiming the camera at the car.

The helicopter it’s self also gets in the way of its own camera sometimes because the camera is positioned at the under belly of the helicopter rather than under the front nose where it should be. If the pilot is going forward all the way to follow a car, the spotlight/camera ball would break the lock.

You could keep the lock bar system but it needs to be sped up, with the inconsistences the lock system faces I think it justified. I know the helicopter is a very strong tool for officers, but its not the lock system that makes it strong tool, its the fact its just a helicopter. The lock is only nice for comms as it shows street names, it also shows speeds but it KMPH, it’d be awesome if that could be changed to MPH for consistency with the radar in cars/speed limits.

It takes about 6 seconds to make a lock, that sounds easy to achieve but if you’d use the camera in a chase you would easily noticed its not. 6 seconds lock but you’ll spend multiple minutes trying to get those 6 seconds to work.