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[Ki Ryn]

I'm making a character who wants a drone with a camera & microphone in it (he likes making documentaries). He wants to be able to control this remotely and see what it sees. And he wants to do this without cyberwear.

After a few hours digging around the book, this is what I came up with and I would like to see if I've overlooked anything or made any other newbie mistakes before I finalize things:

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My comlink is a Renraku with the Iris OS. That all seems pretty straight forward.(System rating is 3, Signal is 4).

The drone is an MCT Flyspy. Capacity is 3, which will be a camera, mic, and directional mic. The camera will be modified with low light and 50x magnification. The mic will have enhance audio (3). Signal is also 3, which equates to 400m.

To give commands to the drone, I bought a Command(3) program.

To recieve images, I have a goggles/headphones set. I'm assuming it is equivalent to a "handheld" sensor package and so has Capacity 3 and Signal 3 just like the drone. I put the same equipment in the headset as the drone (so I can make movies too) but then also added Image Link and Ultrasound. I'm not sure if those have to be modifications to the camera in the goggles, or if they can just modify the goggles directly, and what the effects (if any) on Capacity are.

In order to use this stuff, I bought some Computer and Pilot Aircraft(Remote) skill.
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Does that sound like everything I need in order to make some movies?

Would an augmented reality interface be the norm for this set up? If I have a datajack can I control it mentally? What if I instead have trodes and a sim module?

I believe that I could both remotely control the drone and give it simple orders that it could then carry out on its own right?

Am I correct in assuming that I cannot control the drone via VR unless I have a cyberwear control rig? The rules for that seemed both sparse and widely scattered...

Thanks for the help, any advice is much appreciated.