Drones

[JohnnyD]

Who has one here? Thinking of buying one

If you do have one, do you use it very often and for what

 

[Nick_M]

I am a building surveyor and use it a few times a week for building and site inspections as a safer and quicker method of visual access that access platforms. Limited by poor weather, seagulls and pigeons.

I also have my own side-line to the day job and use it for landscape photography to see things from a different angle etc.

Lots of red tape, rules and regulations, but nothing too onerous with some common sense. Have separate liability insurance too.

Here are a couple of recent jobs where I’ve used the DJI mini 4 pro.

If you like photography, they are a useful tool.

 

[JohnnyD]

Nice.......I have my flyer ID now, pretty straightforward and easy, thinking about the DJI mini 5 pro bundle as it has the upgraded camera.

I don't have a real use for it apart from looking at the roof on the house, and some nice photography when I can.

Its under 250g just and has a C0 status

I'm only on this planet once for a short time is my excuse

 

[Nick_M]

Nice.......I have my flyer ID now, pretty straightforward and easy, thinking about the DJI mini 5 pro bundle as it has the upgraded camera.

I don't have a real use for it apart from looking at the roof on the house, and some nice photography when I can.

Its under 250g just and has a C0 status

I'm only on this planet once for a short time is my excuse

That’s a good enough excuse!

 

[Mark E Smith]

We use them at Work to show progress on large scale Construction Sites and the results are spectacular. Not too happy about any appearing over my garden, only happened once and neighbour took the hint

 

[JohnnyD]

We had one two doors away a few days ago on a house up for sale, and I was curious how they behaved with it, it was a company drone, and they were very well behaved, following regs as far as I could tell, it literally took a vertical flight, and took photos of the house and land, then came down, I think they knew I was watching from the garden though

 

[Doggard]

I owned multiple drones between 2015- 2022, all dji, great bits of kit. I was just using them for photography, travelling all over east anglia to places of interest. Really enjoyed it at first, i always maintained the rules and regs. When they changed the laws I registered them, and had my flyer id.
But towards the end I just got fed up by the attitude of the general public, was regularly getting hassled, although as I explained constantly, I was flying within the rules. The grief from Joe Public just got too much in the end, and I sold them.

 

[Caruso]

I have been flying drones for about 10 years and while the technology has improved greatly the regulations have got a lot tighter. Still I do maintain my flyer and operator IDs. I've flown both sports FPV drones and camera drones. I recently bought a secondhand DJI Avata which does both and am having some fun with getting back into flying manual mode.

 

[Caruso]

For inspecting or photographing objects the Avata is not very good as the camera doesn't have a 3 axis gimbal. So even the slightest bit of wind and the horizon is on the slant. If you fly in manual mode you can work around this, though then you've got to realise you're not flying in the direction that you're pointing. I actually find manual mode easier as it doesn't feel like you're fighting the stabilisation and can get smoother and better looking moving shots. I also have a DJI mini 2 with a large capacity battery that I use for photography.