After some simulated flights, initial practice inside our gym, and practice flights, we’ve had the chance to fly our first mission up at MacLeish Field Station!
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- The drones flown: a Phantom 2 (left) and a Parrot Bebop 2 (right).
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- Safety is still our first priority when learning how to fly drones.
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- Practicing safe takeoff and flying, from within the golf net in Scott Gym.
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- A drone’s-eye view of the class, from the far end of the golf net in Scott Gym.
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- The results of our first mission! This is the final orthomosaic, or stitched image, that came out of our mission flown over MacLeish.
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- Also from our first mission: an elevation map of the terrain we flew over at MacLeish. This image was captured from the processing software, Drone Deploy.
