23. Learning to Fly

One of the cool toys that I have bought is a drone to document my little adventure with. I have primarily focused on the flying part rather than the documenting. It turns out that part is hard enough. Particularly when I generally start and land from the foredeck of a boat. Which means that my small helipad moves all the time, it is almost always windy and there is a whole lot of sailboat rigging to hit as you take off and land. It means that I generally have to do it all manually as the ‘return to home’ function almost certainly will mean a crash in the rigging or in the water. Something that inevitably will happen, sooner or later. I have certainly had some close calls already. But it is a lot of fun and at least I am not going to sit in the aircraft as it crashes.

The editing program that came with the purchase has a whole lot of functions that I haven’t even begun to look at and I have not really started to film as I have no intentions of becoming a youtuber. I will leave that to more cinematic guests that may visit in the future. In the meantime though, here are some initial, totally untampered with, photographs from the sky.