Flying Drones

What is a drone? A drone is classified as an unmanned aircraft flown by an operator using a remote control from the ground. Drones can be fun to fly and make great aerial photography. Drones come in all sorts of sizes and models. They can weigh between less than a pound and up to 55 pounds. These flying devices require a license to fly them if the weigh more than 5.5 pounds. The one’s that weigh less than 5.5 pounds are classified as a toy and are not required by law to have a license to operate them. Another feature is that some of these drones come equipped with cameras mounted on them for shooting aerial photography. Drones have many good uses like analyzing areas of destruction wear people are unable to go into or used in real estate to show property from above which can reveals what a neighborhood looks like around the proposed property for sale.

I got interested in drones over the past year so I joined a drone club to get more information on flying these devices. One of the members of the club suggested that I should purchase a low cost toy drone to practice with. This will satisfy your desire to learn fly one. They told me I would crash one sooner or later learning how to fly one. Then in January of 2016 I purchased the Syma X5C-1 drone. This was a low cost drone that I purchased for about 50 dollars on Amazon. This drone weighs less than 1 pound and is fairly safe to fly learning how to fly one. I crashed this one numerous times with out to much damage. After I learned how to fly this drone I upgraded and purchased the Syma X8G. This one is larger, cost a little more than 150 dollars and weighs 5 pounds. This one also does not require a license, is a little more dangerous to fly and hurt someone if you are not careful. This one has an 8-megapixel camera on board that can take fairly nice photography. Having the ability to see things from above can give you a whole different aspect on viewing things you cannot see from the ground. I can only wait to get my professional version next.