Strapped to a quadcopter in zero gravity

[bland]

I was wondering... imagine a large enclosed space sealed off in intergalactic space, filled with air at normal sea level pressure. I was further wondering with regard to a quadcopter's symmetrical x and y-axis and the fact of the thrust vector always being normal to the plane of the props, that a person was securely strapped to this quadcopter and that it had a decent thrust to weight and was controlled by the pilot with a normal gimbal controller, with yaw and throttle and pitch and roll.

I was pondering that without any thrust it would just float around otherwise the person strapped to the body of the aircraft at the centre of gravity would feel the inertial force of acceleration and so would that pilot be able to fly around accurately merely by relying on the inertial forces they were feeling, assuming there were also plenty of visual cues in the 3 dimensional space in a gravity free zone.

 

[berkeman]

Will your quadcopter have adjustable pitch propellers? If so, over what range of adjustment angle? Why do I ask this?

 

[russ_watters]

I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to fly in such a situation. The control would be very different from flying in gravity though, and the software controlling it would probably need to be rewritten.

 

[sophiecentaur]

It would all be very unstable and the rotors would need to be reversible or the pilot would need a 4pi range for the gimbal mount.
Could it possibly be more stable than a vectored jet pack?