I would advise going with this route because without fail you are going to have a few accidents in the beginning. Back then, there were not a lot of options, but nowadays drone technology has come a long way, and you can purchase a drone for a few hundred dollars so you can really get to master flying it before you upgrade to a more professional model. This time the damage was more serious, but luckily, I’d purchased DJI Care Refresh, so the drone was replaced. Once I’d got reasonably proficient with flying it, and being over confident, I decided to turn off the radar avoidance feature to be able to fly between some trees and subsequently crashed it again. This was not to be the last time I had a mishap with the drone. The next day I took it to a local park and very carefully, in tripod mode, (the slowest setting) learned to take it off, land it and get a feel for the controls. I needed to know what the hell I was doing before I decided to fly this thing again. Luckily, all I suffered were a couple of broken propellers, but my lesson had been learned. On my first attempt I almost dunked it in the swimming pool, reversed it into one of my pygmy palm trees, and then proceeded to plow it straight into my back door. The day it arrived I watched a couple of videos on YouTube on how to calibrate it and then after excitedly unboxing my new drone, I powered it up to try it out in my back garden. Once I’d made my decision to become a drone operator and I’d talked to other pilots in the know, I opted to jump right in and purchase the hot, new, (at the time), top of the line consumer drone which was the DJI Mavic Pro 2. Let me take a few minutes of your time to relay my experience to help you make this choice. Whether to buy a high-quality drone that you’ll be able to use to complete the jobs you’ll get or to buy a cheap throw away drone and learn to fly it first. There are two lines of thought on this subject. The first task is to decide what drone to purchase to get you started on your path. According to Research and Markets the demand for drone pilots is expected to grow by 51.1 percent over the next five years.īeing an independent drone operator is a great way to earn a living and there are quite a few hoops you’ll have to jump through to get there, but I can promise you the journey will be an exciting one. When I started The Droning Company in 2020 there were 150,000 drone pilots that had their FAA Part 107 certificates. In the words of Carl Berndtson who organizes The Commercial UAV Expo held in Las Vegas at the beginning of September every year, the drone industry can best be described as “Coiled." Welcome to one of the fastest growing and exciting industries in the world.
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