I’m mostly talking about camera drones rather than FPV ones.
Every time I take mine out of the bag, people gather around with the same questions: how high does it go, how far does it go, was it expensive, have you ever crashed, etc. - as if they’ve never seen a drone before.
It seems like every single YouTuber and amateur photographer has one these days. They’re easy to fly and relatively cheap too. You’d think they’d be everywhere, but I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve actually seen someone flying one. Granted, I don’t leave the house much and when I do I usually head into the woods, so that probably plays a role. Still, I’m curious if this is just me or if other people have had the same experience.
When I got into drone flying back in 2014 you grabbed a drone, charged it up, and went for a fly.
Then in 2016 I got hired to fly a drone for a movie I was working on. I had to get permits to fly, I had to get a license, I had to tag my drone my operator number.
In 2018 I rented out my drone to another production because I could not make the dates they needed me to fly. They destroyed my drone and my backup drone, I took the insurance money and bought a better drone. I have yet to fly it because there is much more paperwork involved to fly it.
As of a few years ago your done must broadcast your registration number. Mine is too old for that so I need a separate transponder module.
I’m sick of your freaking rules man!
I’m not. I can appeciate cool drone footy as much as the next guy, but they are fucking annoyin when flying around
Which is why I toss a GoPro on my RC trucks again instead of flying a drone, which is sad because I sold my RC planes to buy my first drone.