Having seen some really great ice captures from @Bob Israel with his drone, I was thinking that would be so much fun to find and capture. Of course I was sitting in Southern California with no ice to be seen within hundreds of miles. As I was driving up through Utah and it was getting colder, and the snow was blowing harder, I thought that maybe if the snow cleared I could quickly get the drone out?
I was on a tight schedule yesterday as I had to be to my daughters by 4pm to help out with the grandkids as their Nutcracker practices pick up in prep for their performances soon. As I got closer to Salt Lake City the skies cleared and the snow had stopped. So when I was starting to head to the East and I saw this reservoir and I glimpsed some ice, I pulled off a half mile further at a view point and quickly got my drone out and into the air. I hadn't used the drones in a about a month, so the batteries were only going to give me 19 mins of flight time, in addition to it being about 21 degrees there, flight time would be short, and I would have to fly the drone back to where the ice was. But I did it, and I got it back and landed with only about a minute of battery life back.
To top it off, I got to my daughters at 3:55pm, just in time to say hi and bye as she ran off with 4 of the granddaughters while I watched the rest.
Jim
I was on a tight schedule yesterday as I had to be to my daughters by 4pm to help out with the grandkids as their Nutcracker practices pick up in prep for their performances soon. As I got closer to Salt Lake City the skies cleared and the snow had stopped. So when I was starting to head to the East and I saw this reservoir and I glimpsed some ice, I pulled off a half mile further at a view point and quickly got my drone out and into the air. I hadn't used the drones in a about a month, so the batteries were only going to give me 19 mins of flight time, in addition to it being about 21 degrees there, flight time would be short, and I would have to fly the drone back to where the ice was. But I did it, and I got it back and landed with only about a minute of battery life back.
To top it off, I got to my daughters at 3:55pm, just in time to say hi and bye as she ran off with 4 of the granddaughters while I watched the rest.
Jim
The ice and the story. You are a multitasker and babtsetter par excellent. How many babysitters will drive. from California to Colorado?
