Drone Flights

Even though it's the end of October, the lakes by City Park and LSU haven't recovered from a brutal Summer. I did a couple of lake flyovers this week so we can see how bad they look.

The birds don't seem to mind it though....

(no sound on this one)

In October, 2022, we started cleaning out the garage. We thought it would take a weekend. maybe two. We finally got it all done and organized in March. Here's a look at all of the shit that we packed into a one-car garage.

Drone practice over the Mississippi, from the levee at LSU.

For Spring Break in 2023, we camped out in Ozard National forest. We had a spot on the shore of a pretty lake whose name I don't know, and there were no other people anywhere that we could see. Here's a lake fly over.

A drone seems like a perfect solution for looking for a problem at the top of the sailboat mast. Let's see how that goes.

As you may know, the Louisiana Marathon passes right in front of our house. I had the idea this year that it would be fun to fly the drone up above the runners as they passed. Instead, I damn near knocked an exhausted runner in the head. My co-spectators refused to allow me another test flight.

We run a test flight, then use the "return home" button, only to get stuck in a tree. The video continues shooting while you see attempts to dislodge the drone from the branches.

When I got my first drone, it had this footage loaded on it, which the manufacturers apparently forgot to delete.