Tori started flying the Mavic Mini 2 in 2021 and she traveled with it to Costa Rica where she had her first flight.
For her, being able to explore and see the world from a new perspective is why she loves flying drones.
Key Learnings
- The majority of people (and kids!) are VERY positive about drones, but for the few that are NOT, don’t let them hold you back. Sometimes you’ve got to tell someone who doesn’t know better that he needs to bring you a coffee or LEAVE YOU ALONE because it’s sunrise, you’ve done your homework, and ain’t nothing stopping you from getting that drone shot of the pier.
- Fixing your ego is often harder than fixing your drone. Learning the hard way that changing wind patterns near cliffs can cause your drone to get out of control and crash is tough, but once you’ve retrieved and fixed it, MENTALLY getting back out there can be tough, too. JUST DO IT.
- The Mavic Mini drones suck in wind. Period. It’s why she and I both love our Mavic Air 2S drones.
- There is a LOT of etiquette (that most people don’t care about) that goes into flying. But sometimes even when you’re doing your best, you still realize you are accidentally flying your drone right next to a naked man on his roof. *Presses stop recording on video
- Understand how find your drone works, it can be key for quickly figuring out where your drone is at if you’ve hand to emergency land it or it’s crashed.
The last point is something we didn’t get a chance to talk about in the episode. Tori used another smart method (rewatching the footage from her last video) to figure out WHERE her drone had landed.
When you use “find my drone”, it can show you not just the location of your drone, but footage of what it last saw before it crashed.
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