You all know the sound when you hear one. A distinct buzz somewhere in the distance, usually when the scenery is somewhere really beautiful. And then you see one hanging stationary in the sky and the actual thing that you see is a red and a green light. You are wondering if the drone is filming you, or just the scenery in general with you somewhere as some background.
Why on earth would you want to be a part of that annoying situation? Well, because I think that I am a reasonable person to leave others out of it, and I am often enough in remote places where I am not bothering others with all of this.
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When I was in Thailand recently I was on this beautiful beach sitting in some little chair and this lady sat down next to me (the chairs belonged to the appartments on the beach so I thought she was my neighbor which turned out she wasn't) and she started packing out her drone. Once installed she made it hoover in the sky while she ran into the ocean all by herself looking extremely happy. And after finishing she took her cranky head back, packed up her drone and left the place which she was not renting.
An influencer with a 'happy' life. This is not the person I want to become. I want to make videos of forests of my dog walking in there
Honestly, all of this is just a thought that somewhere along the line this might be something that I will hopefully purchase and make some awesome videos with it, and apart from that..there is just the really costly aspect in there in combination with my non existent flying skills.
I mean, if I can crash a remote controlled car...why won't I crash a drone? I remember a friend of mine taking his drone with him on a sailing boat, the drone crashed into the mast in minute 1 and ended up on the bottom of the ocean on literally the first minute of our trip. Goodbye expensive purchase. And I am very much aware that this can happen to me as well
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So the question starts to rise..Will this be something smart or the dumbest idea ever? I have this whole idea of drone videos and channels and views but I also have no idea if I am going to like this at all. And then it might just be a really expensive move for 'just an experiment'
When thinking about a drone that actually does stuff that works for you with decent quality, the costs start like around 500 bucks going up to 2000 bucks. Boom....that's a lot of blogging to make that happen right there!
But what might be an option is to start with some beginner kind of drone, I see some out there that are below the 100 bucks but ofcourse have the issues with that. Heavy weight, sucky batteries. But that sounds reasonable for that kind of price honesly to start practising with and finding out what works for me.
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What I also wasn't aware of is that with drones heavier than 250 gram you need flying course to legally fly it. And also because of living close to an airport that also might come with some restrictions if you are even allowed to fly in that area.
So people...give me some opinions and some experiences. Have you ever flown a drone and how was your experience with that. And also which brand was that?
And if I would decide to make some awesome shots...Just put them in this blog or make a separate one with that?