Dealing with Distractions - 002
If I had a nickel every time a person came up, usually while I’m flying or getting ready to fly, and ask questions about my drone. Top question, “How much does that drone cost?” I’m sure you agree about this well worn question, but this is better than having a confrontation with an irate person. The good news is that there are certain techniques we will discuss that can be used to interact with folks or at least mitigate the situation to finish the flight mission. Source: CanStockPhoto We were asked to do a photo job of the downtown of a major city. The photo would ultimately be turned into an artistic rendering to be put on t-shirts, mugs, calendars and the like. You might be asking who uses a physical calendar, and I would agree but guess there is a market somewhere. The challenge going into the mission was picking a spot that would conceal us from too many onlookers and safe with respect to not flying over people. A vacant dirt parking lot seemed to foot the...