Tuesday April 5, 2022 Guerneville CA.
Drone practice
I decided to do some drone practice today so I got out my drone stuff and hooked it all up for some practice.
Flying low
Instead of flying the drone up high, I practiced flying it around the yard driveway at a height of less then ten feet as I felt this would give me the best practice learning to fly it.
I practiced flying it about this height and around and around the driveway using it’s camera to guide it when it was out of sight.
I used up one battery, about 30 minutes, then put it away until later.
New gate controller
I was headed out on the quad runner when I ran into the UPS man at the gate. He had my new gate controller so I loaded it up and took it back to the house to install a bit later.
Trail work
I then rode on up into the hills to work on a trail for a bit. I just did a little as I didn’t want to get too tired out as I wanted to install the new gate controller a bit later.
I rode on up this road to the trail I wanted to work on and worked for about an our or so.
Installing the gate controller
After that I headed back to the house for a short break then got to work on installing the new gate controller.
The new gate controller is an all new design so I had to replace everything from scratch starting with the electronics.
I got most of it all wired up but decided to wait to do the final stuff tomorrow and fly the drone around the yard again just before dark.
But first I took my loaded my kayak on my car so I can use it soon, maybe tomorrow.
More drone practice
Then I launched the drone and started going around the driveway again at low altitude.
Crashed the drone
Right away I crushed it on a redwood tree branch.
The cat found it first and was weary of it, not knowing what it was.
Crush site
Once I got involved the cat played like it wasn’t of interest. The drone crashed here but was only about five feet off the ground when it hit a branch. The front propeller arms had folded up but that was it and there was no damage.
I got it back in the air and went up to take a couple pictures.
My place
This one of my place. I have about an acre.
Armstrong Valley Farm
One of my brother’s gardens across the road.
I brought the drone back down low and flew around the driveway a couple of times being a bit more careful not to crash again.
Nice day.
Like the look of your place.
The drones are pretty resilient, good thing!
Great pictures!! To answer Nancy, Bill’s drone takes stills and videos. :)
I’m curious … is it recording to an SD card that you download pics from? Does it take movies or just still shots? It looks like quite the fun … except the running into trees part!!