How to Fly Drone Safely

What’s Drone

Drone is a today's term for an unmanned flying device that remotely driven by what it called as pilot like in an airplane. In today’s world, it is very important to understand for both hobbyist and professionals to really understand how to fly drone safely.

In fact the history of drone was back to the mid of 19th century. The first and recorded use of an unmanned flying device was during the war between Austria and Italy. It was Austrian that flew unmanned balloons loaded with explosives attacking the city of Venice in 22 August 1849. But, it was not drone though for it was simply flying unmanned balloons. So the issue of how to fly drone was not yet an issue at that time!

You may learn the complete history of drone from this link: drone history , including the first mass production of drone was done by ‘Radioplane Company’ which produced about 15,000 radio-controlled planes (RC plane) for US Army during World War II.

For decades afterwards most people being more familiar with RC plane through the aeromodelling activity by hobbyists. The know how to fly drone safely then became an important issue, even though the term “drone” was not yet introduced. It came a period that producers introduced hovering RC plane with photography then video camera. The term drone then becomes more familiar for hobby, photography and video professionals, and surely for military and territory surveillance purposes.

This and the following articles after, will tell you in a simple way how to fly drone safely for photography and videography purpose. I use Phantom 2 Vision+ produced by DJI.

Drone Manual: Read Carefully!

Drone manufacturer provide complete manual. As for Phantom 2 Vision+, beside the product manual, it includes also a piece of paper 'Quick Start Guide' for practical use easy to read and practice, and 'Phantom Pilot Training Guide'. That set of manual is intended to be complete information on how to fly drone safely.

Rule #1: read the manuals thoroughly and carefully line by line in detail. Please make sure you comprehensively understand what they explain on how to fly drone safely before you think to even simply install the blades! Do not hesitate to ask via email to the manufacturer or to professionals for things that you still don’t get into. I fortunately met a professional when I purchased my first drone on the shop. He generously shared his experiences how to fly drone safely, and gave me all hints needed. He also gave me his contact number for me to seek for advice.

Again,…rule #1 is read the manual thoroughly and in detail on how to fly drone safely.

That’s it for today, and keep in touch for the next articles! Before you leave, please enjoy my first video shooting after I read manuals completely and understand fully how to fly drone safely at my first drone-cam shooting, or you can find also at YouTube channel: How To Fly Drone Safely