You're welcome, that's the benefit of having served in a recce platoon
What's interesting for me is that the techniques I was taught for the army are now being taught to police and other investigators to help tackle crime in rural areas - and not just to prevent Farmer Jack's new tractor from being stolen. It's also being conducted to prevent poaching, livestock theft, illegal dumping, animal cruelty and environmental damage, to investigate cases of fraud and to intercept smugglers amongst other things.
In regards to the FLIR pod, I don't know offhand how big/small they'd be in the mid-1990s but I think the biggest problem would be the power requirements of the pod with the second biggest problem in a T2k setting being the equipment needed to view the images. All that stuff might be too much for a small ultralight to carry?