[Leica] Anybody on the list got a drone yet?

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

My family gave me a Parrot BeBop drone for Christmas. It’s very simple to fly, especially when coupled with the optional hand controller that lets you mount the interface device (your smartphone or tablet up to full-size) above a set of joysticks and has a sophisticated phased-array antenna that will communicate with the drone from a mile or more away. The on-board HD camera transmits its view to the device mounted on the hand controller and gives you a first-person view of the flight. The camera can be swiveled independently of the drone, and will take videos and/or still photos to be stored on your device.

It’s a blast! I’ll post a few photos to the Gallery.

—howard


> On Jan 10, 2017, at 11:56 AM, Larry Zeitlin via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Douglas Barry asks if anyone has a drone. The answer is yes. I have one. My grandkids gave one to me as a birthday present assuming that I could fly it. It looks so easy. After all I had helicopter training in the Army 60 years ago. Yes there were helicopters then. Remember MASH in the Korean War. Anyway on my flrst flight outside I got it caught in the top branches of a tree while trying to take an aerial view of my house. Flying a drone isn't easy. It requires practice, practice, practice, preferably on a treeless golf course. Right now the drone sits safely in the box. 
> 
> Larry Z
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