[Goldwingnut]

Originally Posted by Nucky

The skill that it takes to fly a drone that far and that steadily is remarkable. I tried flying one that could land in your hand and kept failing.

Thank You Don for the countless hours you spend for us with your drones and for the accurate information you provide to us about the inner workings of The Villages.

Thanks, I'm pretty good at flying the drone but I'm a much better programmer than pilot. The $50 drones many people buy are actually much more difficult to fly that the more expensive ones like I and the other members of the Drone Flyers Club fly. They lack a lost of the advanced features that ours include, like GPS, GLONASS (Russian GPS system), smart batteries, and lots more.

The flights in this video were all programmed and automated to takeoff and get to the final filming location. Once on station at 225 ft the aircraft altitude was manually lowered to 200 ft to make room for its replacement. Once the feed was switched to the new drone even the flight home and landing was full automated. The GPS systems and the advanced gimbal assemblies on these aircraft do all the work to make me look good. As I said, I'm a better programmer than pilot.

If you can become comfortable flying the little inexpensive drones, then doing what I do is very easy with the more advanced drones.