Welcome to my backyard (shooting range drone video)

Nice yard, what part of NY are you living 

Airguns, drone and a nice big and open backyard! Oh the shooting possibilities!! Nice place.

Nice video 'neighbor'!

I'm originally from Cortland Country - south of you, 
and now I'm in Wayne County - north of you.
There's a bunch of us Central/Upstate NYers on here.

Great looking range! And your footage was nice too!

I played a game of 'spot the transmitter' when your quad was panning around.. 
Did you go with a Mavric? or a Spark?

I've been big into the RC [flying] scene for about 7 years [Also "DirtyDovi" on RCGroups, etc]
and I'm all about aerial video platforms. Tricopters, Quadcopters, Hexacopters, Octocopters..

There's more of us 'RC Pilots' on here also, so it's cool to see that you're into that hobby too! 

 

Sam -

That’s a nice slice of paradise right there. 

Welcome Mr. Matt! 

Ah right on, the Mavic Air is a Great little rig, and you sure did get some killer footage! 
Mavic! Mavic!! Mavic!! I keep calling them "Mavric". haha

Thanks for the videos bro! I can watch footage like that all day! Awesome stuff! 

You aren't kidding about the tech involved!

The systems that I've built in the past were all Non-GPS based.. 
Accelerator / Barometer / Magnetometer, and auto works nice, but I mostly fly fully manually.. 
There's just no comparing them to the locked on flying on rails like stability of GPS setups like yours! 

I flew a Yuneec Typhoon a few years back, and the thing just blew me away..

 

Sam -

Beautiful spot, and nice flying too. But, I think your horse shoe is upside down. I've always heard they should be hung with the open end up, "to hold the luck"

Matt, you've got one of the finest airgun ranges I've ever seen. Love your place man!

Fuss

Good to see youre still around Matt! Nice place. How is that sidelever rifle treating you?



I fly quads too but not with cameras. I have a little Eachine Wizard 220 that I fly line of sight. My dad and one of my sons fly FPV (first person view/goggles). I tried FPV but it didn’t appeal to me AND I was too cheap to get the gear so I stick with Line of sight flying.

Great range. If you are interested, Hunterone is a great photographer and person who uses a drone for some beautiful vistas. Here's his drone youtube page

https://www.youtube.com/user/MrDingle73/videos

mcoulter. That’s a nice range you have for shooting, neat drone video too. I need to do that with one of mine, I was just out at my range and spent 4.5 hours mowing the yard. A ruff look at my range from the driveway.

Drones are the best . . . for the first couple of weeks, then 99% of them end up sitting unused in on the shelf

I was amazed when I first got my Mavic Pro last year. I flew it a few times around the property and was so giddy about all the things I could possibly do with that drone. After about a dozen flights, it was grounded and neglected in its case for almost a year. Then I started wondering why I ever bought it (and all of the extra accessories that come along with it) in the first place. For me, the possibility / inevitability of crashing it creates too much paranoia to really enjoy the drone flying experience. Even in the few flights that I had, I had a couple of close calls where the controller reset or lost connection with the drone and I thought it would end up flying off into the wild blue yonder, never to be seen again. 

Then the Mavic 2 Pro came out . . . so, of course, I had to sell the old one and spend even more money on the newer, better model! Got a bunch of extra accessories for the M2P too and have flown it . . . a total of two times!!! But man, that new Hasselblad camera is so nice!!!

I hope you get better use out of your drone than me / most people.