{"id":8450,"date":"2025-11-20T01:54:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=8450"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:54:26","slug":"droning-on-and-thoughts-on-training-with-new-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/droning-on-and-thoughts-on-training-with-new-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Droning On and Thoughts on Training With New Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greetings and Salutations!
So it’s been a week so far. Feel like I’ve been “tied to the whipping post” with the morons I have to deal with on the regular. Today was just a continuation of the beatings if you will but I did have one high point.

My new drone showed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s a 2.4 gig 3 camera quadcopter.

The price?
I pretty much stole it.

I found it on a Online County Police Auction… I threw a $25 bid at the last second juuuust<\/em> to make sure I got it, with I think $15 for shipping? For $40? Hell yes! I mean… it’s NOT a high-end drone, but normally it retails for about $125 which at what I paid for it?

I’ll take it GLEEFULLY.

I also found a almost-identical one on Temu (of course) that was only $40, but<\/strong> there’s the import tariffs and crap that gets added on? Either way, to get some more drone training in for that price? As I stated before, I’ll take it.

So now I have two drones.

This new quadcopter, and then my “Scout” Dronecopter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Scout is a good practice drone, and small enough to get in and around the interior of the house (or any house for that matter) for recon pretty well.

The problem is that it’s so lightweight, ANY and ALL breezes affect its flight. One time I was working on going room-to-room in the house, and the Central Air Conditioning kicked on, and the bird ‘lurched’ across the room in the draft of the AC blowing out of the vent.

So I’m not sure of the utility of it outside in real crosswinds.

This is a standard problem for the cheap ‘practice’ drones if you will. No real weight. One of my early $30 Amazon Chinesium drones I actually lost<\/strong> when practicing outside with the Redhead Nukular Gran. If you recall while I was flying it, I had a BIG gust of wind show up unexpectedly, and grab it, and last I saw of it, it was headed due south towards the Publix a quarter mile away…

Never did find out what happened to that ‘un LOL.
It literally faded to a teeny-tiny dot and then >poof<

So tonight, I tried to to fly this new quad inside BUT had a minor issue. Or maybe not minor per se…

The doggos.
Chili AND Stella both seem to think that the quadcopter is something they need<\/strong> to ‘fetch’ out of the air… I tried to get them to leave it alone, but nope. They weren’t listening at all. In fact Stella got too close while lunging at it, and the rotor blade caught her on the nose. She yelped pretty loudly as it must have hurt, but did that stop her?

She’s a fucking rockheaded Pittie…
What do you think?
Riiiiiiiight.

Now it’s a challenge apparently.
Must. Snatch. The. Flying. Thing.

So this means in the future, I’ll have to either practice in the bedroom for the initial ‘tuning’ of it and getting a feel for the flight characteristics, or take it down to the park at the elementary school we used to take the Grans to after school or on a Saturday and give it a try there.

When I say ‘tuning’ I mean that the controls and servos need to be dialed in for accuracy, otherwise it might have drift already in the settings, and I need to make sure that it does a steady hover, and do some other things, to include getting the 4k Cameras ‘dialed in’ as well.

Seeing that drones are the future<\/strong> and at least trying<\/strong> to learn how to use them is a good and necessary thing<\/strong>. Better to learn on the short $$$ models than to spend a grand on a nice<\/strong> DJI Drone like the Ivans and Krainians use and have that<\/strong> get wrecked?

I’d rather burn through a half a dozen ‘practice drones’ learning how to ‘fly’ a drone rather than buying a $$$$$Mondo-Expensivo$$$$$ one and wasting\/crashing\/destroying it by accident. In fact as part of my training\/learning experience(s), I found and downloaded a free drone racing game on Steam to try and get the ‘feel’ using that. Called “The Drone Racing League” It’s OK to a point…

My issue with it primarily is that the problem with that is it’s not very accurate, and the fact that it’s a racing game, the ‘training’ is more focused on MOAR SPEEEEEED<\/em><\/strong> than anything else.

I just want\/need a basic simulator, and lacking that, I’ll keep using ‘disposable drones’ to get proficient in my craft and flying skills. I sure as Hell can’t afford a $1200 drone and smash and bash it all to Hell and Gone just to practice…

The idea is we\/me\/you should be Training on something everyday <\/strong>if you can Aye? In my case, I’m working on my drone-skillz. If anyone has any other ideas, throw them in the comments. I appreciate y’all and anything you throw out there.

So on that note
More Later
Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greetings and Salutations!So it’s been a week so far. Feel like I’ve been “tied to the whipping post” with the morons I have to deal with on the regular. Today was just a continuation of the beatings if you will but I did have one high point. My new drone showed up. It’s a 2.4 … Continue reading “Droning On and Thoughts on Training With New Equipment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8454,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions\/8454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}