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3 Tips to Become a Better Camera Drone Pilot!
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There are lots of drone channels but yours and Ian in London are the best. Thanks Russ for really clear, simple tutorials 👍
Great content, thanks!
Have fun in Estes, we have seen some large herd of elk there in the fall. While they may be up in the park during the summer, it was an amazing scene outside our winds at the Stanley Hotel to see some 30+ lounging on the lawn/parking lot.
Great work Russ, awesome list of recs and tips. Thanks a lot for sharing!
great… very simple, very useful
When I used to hand catch my mavic 2, I would put my palm out with my fingers bent back slightly so that my fingers wouldn't get cut. But then I found out the hard way that since the mavic 2 was so big, if it landed on your hand off balanced the props would hit your wrist. Hurt like heck, almost had to go to the doctor, and the wife was pissed off. But hey at least my fingers were good!
Moral of the story, follow what Russ says.
Thanks! Will definitely use this info.
When you change the little box on the bottom left of the screen to the horizon thing or what ever its called sometimes it will show red dots and or lines what is this? Its on a MA2?
Hey Russ .. your friend Howard here. I live in Colorado, a police office and would love to meet you while you are in Colorado. If you can take about 20 minutes while you are here please let me know.
I agree with you, that we should aim to land on hand/palm first then, only grab it. I did a mistake by doing the opposite. It was so bad, the propellers cut my fingers and I instantly lost half of my finger nail on my middle finger. Just a MINI 2 is enough to cut your nails off. Thank you for the tips! Keep up the good work! 👊🏻☺️
Thanks Russ for another great video. I try to improve every time but sometimes it may be a month between flights. What helps me is getting my drone out aways and start doing large figure eights, after a couple of circuits, I start making the eights a little tighter and tighter. Thanks again for the info.
Another great info video. Now if we could just find a app to make the snow go away. Colorado is o-so fun to fly from Estes Park all the way down to Bishops Castle.. So many great things to film and explore. Besides the high winds and fires, flying lately has been at a nil. Should be a great summer.
Congrats for another job well done with good introduction that’s so helpful, thanks for sharing and hopefully u enjoy my video too my friend there 🙂
You'll like RMNP.
Hey, I've got a cap that looks like yours! 😀
Enjoy your vacation to beautiful Colorado and remember you will need a reservation to enter RMNP at the most convenient hours.
Another good tutorial video Russ
I'm sorry Russ, but risking chopping your fingers while launching or catching your drone in the air is not a "Pro" method in my book unless you wanna impress someone. No Pros use that ever. We use landing pads. That's it!
Oh wow 👌 thank you so much for the information, some may say, who is this guy. This guy loves to just be able to fly and have fun, I don't look to make money with my drones. I had and have all the DJI Mavic drones, from the spark to the mavic 3 but I sold my earlier drones, now I have from the mini 2 on up. Honestly what I'm getting from this video Russ is some very good information some things I never tried and some things I will try I don't fly much because my area is very limited but I do have all my license but it's crazy I can't even fly off of my own property because I live too close to the airport and I don't want to go everywhere I just want to go up 🤣🤣 and I'm not a very good photographer and I was getting those zebra lies and didn't know what it was I didn't have everything turned on and you always give some very good beginners information because I am always going to be in that category no matter what kind of drawn I buy or fly. I notice this is getting long I just appreciate the things you do on your channel I'm quite sure these are some questions you had for yourself when you first started flying.
To me it's like going fishing, all you try to concentrate on is catching that fish 🐟 😄 😅
Hi Russ. All good tips. However, the true judge of how ‘good’ a pilot might be, is how the vision actually looks when played back to his/her audience. In this case, the clear winner is ‘smoothness’. Not just with drone and gimbal movements, but in transitions & edits as well, even though edits and transitions are not strictly pilot moves. Nothing screams ‘amateur’ louder than jerky movement, both in the flying and later, in transition edits.
Great suggestions. I especially appreciated the tip on hand launching and hand catching!
Thanks Russ
The hysteresis and overexposure lines are a useless annoying feature …anyone that can see knows if it's overexposed. Total distraction in your shooting! A total gimic. Not used In a Dslr cameras and there is a reason for that.
In the video you mentioned DJI go 4 what is
the difference with that app would it be
better then the DJI fly app?
All are great, solid tips…
I’ve hand landed but not hand launched. Mostly use my pad. Never used histogram use my exposure with Mavic pro. Serves me well. Don’t travel due to the fact I have no money. Good tips though. 👍👍✌️
3 great tips for flying Gus. Definitely all three are great ideas, and will help any pilot. Thanks again for your. 👍👍👍
With the drone world blowing up over the mini 3, russ I wanna know your opinion on the what we've seen thus far, unless they've sent it to ya and cant talk about it just yet
As a new Drone flyer and considered an old man at 54 doing this- I find that I must fly every single day, sometimes during light rain to get more and more comfortable even if it is just around my block- Oh and I also practice night flights as much as I can- with all my lights and beacons and safety gear-
Russ the only thing I would add to your suggestions would be spend the few bucks for a lanyard to prevent dropping your controller. Relying on only holding the controller with one hand can lead to an unfortunate incident. There are plenty of options out there and they are cheap insurance and provide protection for your controller. Always enjoy your content.
As someone who's been flying my drone for over a year now I never once realised how useful that histogram was. Just had to guess if I had my shots too over or underexposed. You learn something new everyday, thanks 51 Drones!