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Title: I bought a drone.
Post by: FinsnFur on May 06, 2022, 10:07:41 PM
Don't ask me why because I still don't know why but boy am I having a blast with this thing.
It's absolutely incredible what this thing is capable of doing. I mean literally.
I flew it up over the house tonight and took pictures of the Sun as it went down. My God I'm going to have so much fun with this.

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Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: nastygunz on May 06, 2022, 10:54:42 PM
WOW! how about a picture of the drone and some tech specifications?
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: slagmaker on May 07, 2022, 05:07:39 AM
Yes!! Wod you drone on about your drone..
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: Hawks Feather on May 07, 2022, 06:51:08 PM
Darn you Jim. I have told my wife for several years that I want a drone and the only question she has is 'Why'. Because I want one doesn't seem to work. We have two drone businesses in the area and I have loved looking at the pictures that they post from around different towns, the rivers, athletic fields, court houses, etc. I think one of the reasons that I won't get one is that I would never compete with the quality of their work. Their 'non drone' images are a different matter.
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: FinsnFur on May 07, 2022, 09:43:13 PM
Well it's a DJI air2s. Like Jerry I've always felt like I wanted a drone but didn't know why and I didn't want to spend a bunch of money on something and crash it. There's so many want to be manufactured in the US today, I wasn't sure what to buy without getting a piece of junk so I just kept putting it off.
I was talking to Loren Reese on the phone and he said sorry I missed your call I was flying the drone over a bear site I didn't have any reception. I said wait a minute you got a drone? He said yeah I have four of them why? Then I knew instantly any drone questions I had, I just found my man LOL
We talked drones for a long time and I told him my worries blah blah he told me not to buy anything other than a DJI. He said you can buy Mavericks and Autel and all them other ones at Best buy and Walmart and you'll be nothing but disappointed. He said a DJI will cost you big bucks but it will be cream of the crop and you will not be sorry.
Well he wasn't wrong. It cost me $1,200 bucks with an extra battery and so far I'm nothing short of amazed with what it can do. People talk about crashing them if you just let go of the controls it will sit and hover. You can program it to come back to you if it starts to lose radio contact etc. This new model a 1 inch CMOS sensor and six sensors located on the front and bottom to detect obstacles. If you drive it towards a building, a tree, a telephone wire, a person, the sensors pick up on that and it will do what you program it to do in such a situation. Such as negotiate an alternative route, or stop, or just hover.  You can turn the sensors off for certain situations such as if you'd like to catch it in your hand or launch it from your hand. Or manually maneuver it around certain objects. I've fired it up here in the house a couple different times and all the warnings scream the entire time because it's in such close proximity of obstacles. That also happens when you're flying it if you get close to a tree or a vehicle or a person. Notifications come on the screen showing very accurate distances to the obstacle so that you know if it's above you or below you etc.
It has different capturing modes that you've all probably seen on the Discovery channel etc. For example if there is a vehicle on the controller screen, you can draw a box around it and set the Drone to follow it. It will follow the the target at a predetermined distance not letting it out of its site or camera view. Another one is called point of interest where you draw a box around an an object on the screen and it will fly a predetermined pattern emphasizing the object that you drew a box around kind of like an advertisement showing it in different angles etc. Another mold is called Master shots where you draw a box around the object and it will fly in a predetermined pattern and take a series of cinematic pictures from different locations heights and angles automatically.
It has full pro camera mode where you can adjust the ev, shutter speed, exposure, color saturation, all that stuff if you want to.
It has a advertised maximum range of 7 miles. I watched a video on YouTube of a guy in Hawaii that flew his out five miles with no issues.
Like most high-end drones it has the automatic RTH mode. Return to Home. Where anytime during the flight you can tap the return to home button it will automatically come back to the point it launched from without your interaction. You can adjust or move your homepoint during flight anytime also if you would like to.
Today was the first day I actually took it out in the kayak with me. And yes I was nervous as crap lol.


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Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: FinsnFur on May 07, 2022, 11:07:20 PM
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Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: nastygunz on May 08, 2022, 01:11:37 AM
WOW!...great footage and you have balls of steel taking it out over the water ha ha!
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: FinsnFur on May 08, 2022, 08:15:23 AM
No, I don't have balls of steel but I did have the diarrhea, I was so damn nervous. [emoji23] It took me a month of practice to build the courage to get to this point. [emoji23]


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Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: nastygunz on May 08, 2022, 08:26:42 AM
 all's well that ends well :yoyo:
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: Todd Rahm on May 08, 2022, 10:16:09 AM
Nice Jim!!!! Love how they’ll track you!!  I might have missed but what’s the flight times on the new ones?
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: Okanagan on May 08, 2022, 10:20:03 AM
Can't wait to see more drone pics!  You are creative with a camera already and you are going to love the new toy.

Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: Hawks Feather on May 08, 2022, 10:47:13 AM
That is the model that the rep at the camera store in Columbus said he uses. He goes all over the U.S. doing drone coverage. He showed me some coverage that he did of wheat harvest in the west. It was for one of the traveling harvest companies and was really impressive.

Next thing we know Jim will be doing video editing.  :innocentwhistle:
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: FinsnFur on May 08, 2022, 01:38:05 PM
Quote from: Todd Rahm on May 08, 2022, 10:16:09 AM
Nice Jim!!!! Love how they’ll track you!!  I might have missed but what’s the flight times on the new ones?

It's advertised 31 or 34 minutes per battery Todd. But all factors considered. It uses satellites and GPS tracking and has an impeccable ability to compensate for up to 25 mph winds and still keep it's coordinates. So if it's windy the batteries will drain much faster as it throttles up and down to compensate the wind.
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: FinsnFur on May 08, 2022, 01:40:58 PM
Quote from: Hawks Feather on May 08, 2022, 10:47:13 AM
That is the model that the rep at the camera store in Columbus said he uses. He goes all over the U.S. doing drone coverage. He showed me some coverage that he did of wheat harvest in the west. It was for one of the traveling harvest companies and was really impressive.

Next thing we know Jim will be doing video editing.  :innocentwhistle:

I think I seen some stuff like that when I was watching the videos on this one too, Jerry. A lot of realtors like this one also for advertising property and homes. Good idea.
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: FinsnFur on May 08, 2022, 01:57:12 PM
I had no idea until after I bought this that you have to have a license to fly it, and you have to have it registered with the FAA.
The course and paperwork are all available on line. You also have to file for a permit to fly it within so many miles of an airport...EACH time you do it. The RC controller is linked through whoever, for you to this. You can do it in the back end.
I also didnt know until two or three weeks ago that all drone activity in the US get monitored and tracked , mostly in the cities. I got to see one of the monitors in one of the training videos. It's crazy cool with all the drone paths a different color as it logs them.
The DJI drones legally emit your registration and license number during flight to anyone with the authority to retrieve it.
And even though this one is capable of, I think 20,000 feet altitude, the US has a nation wide law the prohibits any civilian drone or unmanned aircraft from flying higher then 400 ft. In the course they said "..manned aircraft is required to remain above 500 ft. So the newly acquired drone laws present a 100 ft buffer and avoids interference with commercial craft etc.
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: Todd Rahm on May 08, 2022, 04:01:45 PM
I believe the license is only in certain areas, and business reasons. If your not in one of those areas, I think it just needs registered.

I got a license a few years back, but it’s probably close to expiring. I’ll have to check.
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: FinsnFur on May 08, 2022, 04:17:47 PM
I think they may have changed the license deal to everybody needs one. Maybe not....I live in a pretty rural area but I still had to get it to be legal. And you have to print it and carry it with you when flying.
If you plan to make money by doing work for other people or selling pictures etc then you need another license called the part 107

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Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: FinsnFur on May 08, 2022, 04:24:04 PM
Nope you're right Todd.
I have the small uas certificate of registration through the FAA and then I had to have another one which shows I took the course. It's the recreational us safety test completion certificate.

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Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: nastygunz on May 08, 2022, 06:41:07 PM
next thing you know you'll have to have register your fishing pole.
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: FinsnFur on May 08, 2022, 08:56:17 PM
Or your nastygunz [emoji23]

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Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: Todd Rahm on May 08, 2022, 10:58:23 PM
Ah, Maybe. I got the 107.
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: bigben on May 09, 2022, 09:40:19 AM
I have always wanted one.  My wife got me a cheap one to mess around with but I cant get it to origin the motors so it will fly flat.  so I kinda just shoved it in the corner of my room and left it alone.  I know theres always a bunch of people flying them up at the lake and until last year they did so creepin n such.  chicks in bikinis or what have you were they thought they were in a private setting and the dang things are above ya vidoeing and such. 

I was fishing at a local impoundment a couple years ago and a guy kept videoing me at pretty close proximity.  I picked up my one 7'6" jig rod with a chatterbait attached and whipped it at it a few times and the one time I think I caught the camera and he got the message.  he was literally 20 yds or so off my boat side videoing me. 
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: KySongDog on May 26, 2022, 03:44:14 PM
That's pretty cool, Jim. Like a lot of us, I've always wanted one but didn't know what I'd really use it for except maybe scout for game. 

Is it legal to shoot down an offending drone with your 12 gauge?   :wo:
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: chieftain on May 26, 2022, 04:44:33 PM
guys around here use the drone to bowhunt.
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: nastygunz on May 26, 2022, 06:52:05 PM
I was out in a cornfield with my 15 year old nephew crowhunting one time and this weirdo with Connecticut license plates walked up to us and started taking pictures of us. Aside from being a freak he was interrupting our hunt so back in my younger days when I wasn't so pleasant and polite 😈 I told him to take a hike or I was gonna shove his camera where the sun don't shine. My nephew said why is he taking pictures of us and I said because he's a goddamn freak ha ha.  :biggrin: if somebody started drone filming me I might have to start slinging lead🤛


Quote from: bigben on May 09, 2022, 09:40:19 AMI have always wanted one.  My wife got me a cheap one to mess around with but I cant get it to origin the motors so it will fly flat.  so I kinda just shoved it in the corner of my room and left it alone.  I know theres always a bunch of people flying them up at the lake and until last year they did so creepin n such.  chicks in bikinis or what have you were they thought they were in a private setting and the dang things are above ya vidoeing and such. 

I was fishing at a local impoundment a couple years ago and a guy kept videoing me at pretty close proximity.  I picked up my one 7'6" jig rod with a chatterbait attached and whipped it at it a few times and the one time I think I caught the camera and he got the message.  he was literally 20 yds or so off my boat side videoing me. 
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: FinsnFur on May 26, 2022, 09:51:54 PM
Quote from: KySongDog on May 26, 2022, 03:44:14 PMThat's pretty cool, Jim. Like a lot of us, I've always wanted one but didn't know what I'd really use it for except maybe scout for game. 

Is it legal to shoot down an offending drone with your 12 gauge?   :wo:

I dont know that answer KY  :laf:  I've never worried about it because I didnt buy mine to snoop, invade or be a pervert. I like to consider myself a digital creator and I bought it as another filming option when out on the river, and for exploring the river.
With that said..if I had one hovering me while I was on my own land or simply getting too close for comfort...the shotgun sure would be an option.
There's a pretty distinct line between nature and nosey. :readthis:
Also as far as I know from my reading up to make sure I stay within the laws, it's illegal to use them for hunting purposes.
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: nastygunz on May 26, 2022, 10:30:19 PM
it is illegal to use them for hunting in New Hampshire.
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: bigben on May 31, 2022, 09:59:51 AM
Illegal in pa as well. 
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: KySongDog on May 31, 2022, 05:57:50 PM
Currently there is no law in KY that prevents scouting or hunting with a drone.  There has been proposed legislation to change that but nothing has passed in to law yet.  I don't plan on buying a drone anytime soon so it is a moot point for me.
Title: Re: I bought a drone.
Post by: Hawks Feather on July 04, 2022, 08:51:43 AM
Yesterday I was checking pumps at a gas station and while waiting for the man to leave the last pump that I had to check we started talking. He had Arkansas plates and I asked him what brought him to Ohio. He said that he was doing drone work for agriculture in an area from here to about 75 miles and had been here for three months. Needless to say, I said that I had a friend (yes, you Jim) who had just purchased a drone and that while I have done photography always thought of getting one. He opened the back door of his SUV and there was a case about two and a half feet square and probably two feet high. He asked if I wanted to see the one that he normally uses, and I said sure. He opened it up and this sucker was massive without any of the arms extended or anything. He said that with the work he does that the unit has to be able to record all sorts of information and have the accuracy to be able to have it introduced in the Supreme Court if necessary. As set up the unit cost around $23,000 and I said that was a little more than I would want to spend, and he laughed. He said that the company had bought this one and the other two that were in the back. He suggested that if I was looking that I consider the DJI Air 2 (Jim, know anyone who has one) since it had all the bells and whistles that someone who was not planning to do agriculture plotting would ever need. I laughed and told him that if I couldn't get one like he showed me that I might just need to wait a little longer. Nice conversation and a great break from pump certifications.