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The Flir Scout PS Line are actually pretty cool little units. I managed to fiddle with one for a few days before deciding not to purchase one.
The 9hz on these models is actually not as bad as you think. It's very, very easy to see through even when moving at a fairly fast speed. I was in the passenger seat of a car doing 60km/hr and I was easily able to track and follow things. It doesn't "blur" at 9hz in how you would imagine film or video recording at that speed to... It is just 9 snap shots a second.
The reason I didn't purchase it, despite being a good spotting scope, was the eye relief. It is worse than the cheapest Chinese repro optic you can think of. Having it right up on my eye, a minor pump could cause me to have to readjust the position of the unit. Putting it up against eye pro causes you to start losing visibility on parts of the screen because it is that much further away from your eye.
I would have paid 300 dollars more over the asking price for a nice piece of glass as the eye piece. Now I'm investigating a four thousand dollar option because, well, that seems to be the cheapest I can go for a decent unit. I am considering buying the PS24 and hooking it up to a DVR at some point to record some thermal Airsoft, but, thats a pipe dream.
For anyone thinking of using a thermal as a primary night optic (instead of night vision), don't. You can't use them to navigate at all. I don't really have time to explain in detail, but ultimately you can't see enough in terms of up close objects to navigate. It is almost like running with no night vision or light at all in some cases.
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