{"id":19556,"date":"2018-01-28T16:53:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T16:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=19556"},"modified":"2018-01-28T17:12:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T17:12:48","slug":"having-a-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=19556","title":{"rendered":"Having a blast….."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m having a blast with this whole drone deal!!! \u00a0Let me explain! \u00a0All my life I wanted to be a pilot, and when finally learnd to fly and went on to do two books on America with Wes and Mark, I loved flying, \u00a0but in all \u00a0honesty, I was a little nervous every flight! \u00a0Flying an airplane, even when you are very careful, has risks. \u00a0I miss flying, but I really missed seeing our world from up there!!<\/p>\n

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For a few years I’ve thought about buying another plane to get back to aerial photography, but a number of factors have held me back. \u00a0Airplanes have gone up in price, considerably, in spite of \u00a0a bad market for ultra light planes! \u00a0The cost ot hanger a plane gets higher all the time. \u00a0If you have a ultra light that can be put in a trailer, you save that money, but a good trailer costs from 2 to 5 thousand dollars. \u00a0Planes must have an annual every year, which is a good chunk of change. It just gotten to financially hard to own and operate a plane.<\/p>\n

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The drone industry to the rescue!!! \u00a0You can buy a very good drone that shoots 12 megapixel stills and 4K video in a stabilized platform for less than $1,000. \u00a0Then add a few extra batteries and all the accessories you might want and you can still stay under $1,500. \u00a0The best drone for this kind of work DJI makes (the leading drone company), can be had for under $2,000.<\/p>\n

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Now I can take a drone that fits in the palm of my hand anywhere in my camera bag and with an app on my iPhone cane see if I am in a place where drones can be flown legally. \u00a0It takes me less than 5 mimutes to prepare the drone to fly and I can operate the drown up to 40o feet agl (above ground level) which allows making images very much like what I did out of the ultra light, but I’m safely on the ground!!!!<\/p>\n

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A bird’s eye view of my house down through the trees!<\/p>\n

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Really having a ball!!!!!!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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  I’m having a blast with this whole drone deal!!! \u00a0Let me explain! \u00a0All my life I wanted to be a pilot, and when finally learnd to fly and went on to do two books on America with Wes and Mark, I loved flying, \u00a0but in all \u00a0honesty, I was a little nervous every flight! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19565,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19556\/revisions\/19565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}