Seems he had a good reason to squeal like a stuck pig
I talked to Barry today. He said he had x-rays and he has a couple of broken ribs, so I think he had reason to squeal a bit. Things like that take an older person some time to heal up. Such is life. He’ll be riding again soon, a couple of broken ribs won’t slow him down for long.
Let’s get the drone going
My cell phone died on me a while back so I bought a new one which was much updated than my older one.
When I tired to load my DJI drone flying software , it wouldn’t load on the new phone which was a bummer as I could no longer fly my drone. It said software not compatible.
Rainbow app
I considered buying another phone but I didn’t really want to spend the money on another one. I did a lot of searching around and ran into this drone flying software by another company than my drones called Rainbow.
Not really free
It was supposed to be free but after flying it a few times it said I’d have to buy it to use it to fly more.
Well that software worked better than the drone manufacturer’s original one that worked on my old phone so I didn’t have much choice.
Drone stuff
Anyway, I got all the stuff to fly out and gave it a try.
Get er flying
I downloaded the app to my phone and it set up well with my drone and I was flying again in a short time with very little hassle. After several test flights it informed me that I would have to buy in if I wanted to fly anymore.
It cost 15 bucks per year which isn’t the way I like to buy software, but then again it worked so good I bought in and then took it up for some more testing.
Home
My place from the drone’s view.
Armstrong Valley Farm
One of Tom’s gardens.
One more of Tom’s gardens looking up Sweetwater valley to the east of me, towards Mount Jackson Lookout.
Family property goes up through here
The hills where we ride the dirt bikes. The hill in the center is where the hammock is at the Top of the World , where we take a break often while riding the dirt bikes.
The grassy hilltops is where another neighbor lives that I visit. It’s up behind Armstrong state reserve park which is down in this valley.
Armstrong Valley view
And this is the view down the valley towards Guerneville from over my place which Tom’s garden in the lower right bottom of the picture.
Rainbow software
I was impressed with the software and it does some interesting things that the drone manufacture’s doesn’t. But now I will have to learn how to do those things, eventually.
It’s good to have my drone flying again, so now I can practice flying with it and hopefully become a better pilot.
Dirt bike ride
Late in the afternoon I rode the dirt bike up into the hills to get some exercise riding around, then I rode on over to where I was working on the trail and got some exercise there too.
I worked there on the trail until about 7PM and went on home for the day.
Oh poor Barry … broken ribs hurt every time you breathe. Hope he heals up fast. Cool drone pictures. I’ve always wanted to try it. $15 a year sounds pretty reasonable. Great you found that and it works!!
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Oh poor Barry … broken ribs hurt every time you breathe. Hope he heals up fast. Cool drone pictures. I’ve always wanted to try it. $15 a year sounds pretty reasonable. Great you found that and it works!!