SIYU WU
4/30, 2020
The distance learning and home quarantine，had changed my daily schedule dramatically. Since I don’t need to spend 2 hours travel back and forth，between college and home, just turn on my computer to attend to class, instead of taking subway or bus. The extract time in my schedule gave me an opportunity to reorganize my inventory. In the pass of few years I purchase many “little toys” just because my impulse purchase. In my inventory there is a drone which I purchased 3 years ago，and flied not event an hours in this 3 years. The purpose of buying a drone it to make some interesting video and picture. Now is time to learning to make my own flying video.
Drone is great to have fun， when you just want something to fly around，but when you want to use it to take a nice video and picture, because there are a lot of think to learn. First of all，always is the law issue. In the United State drone can not fly where every you want，you can not fly 5 mile within the airport. Sounds easy right？But it is not easy for a New Yorker，New York is the center of the international air line，there are 3 huge airport, JFK, LGA, EWR, and many small airport. In other word only part of Brooklyn and Long Island allow drone fly，but just a fly under restriction. Except the area within the airport，there are many restriction area not allow drone fly around，even in some park.
Second is the drone itself，the function build in need time to learn how to correctly use it，such as Surrounding，Object of face tracking，etc. Most of the reason to learn your drone is for safety. For example, in my drone in my drone only have one object detect radar in the front which mean it only can avoid the object in forward 90 degree，when I using the Surrounding feature need to know the barrier in your surrounding area and the range in case the drone crash or lost signal cause accident.
During the quarantine，drone will be a good option to visit the world outside of your home without going out of the door.
Hello Siyu, I can relate to you by dealing with a rough schedule and situation. You have to try anything literally to make yourself more comfortable and interested to keep going with a routine. It was really interesting to learn about your drone flying skills, it is a great option to record creative videos. Keep learning something new!!
Hi Siyu,
Drone flying is an interesting hobby. I’m glad you are trying to do it with all those regulations–I’ve heard that it is very difficult to find okay places to fly them. Good luck, and share some photos if you can!
Best,
Sean