A good question and one of the reasons I started the thread. I thought that I had missed something along the way. Yes, especially for mapping. You have GPS and a Barometer to tell you location and height on a Google map so you don't need the camera video to fly. Sometimes you can have a video downlink for the camera to see what is going on back at the GCS (Ground Control Station. Back in the day when we were helping a local college, their focus was agriculture so I never got to use a came