I just wanted to introduce myself. I’m a 49 year old father/grandfather that’s been a project manager/Civil Engineer in the underground utilities area in the Pennsylvania/New York area. 7 years ago I decided to move south and ended up here in Tampa Florida to get away from the cold! As a child from the 80’s we didn’t have drones, quad copters or anything like this, I had a gas powered plane on 2 strings that went in a circle, model rockets and of coarse if you were lucky enough you could buy a kit, mine was a Buccaneer and took a week to build, then covered it in Solartex iron-on covering and a old radio controller that had very little distance. Anyway I ended up having an accident at work, losing 4 toes, no bones, or tendons in left foot minus the big toe bones. I’ve never felt helpless like this at all in my life! I’ve been with my wife since she was 13 and I 15 and I feel like I’m just a burden to her, having to be driven, helped into wheel chair etc…. With all that I lost my medical as a IFR rated private pilot due to having 2 major heart attacks 14 days before the accident! OMG what else can go wrong!? So I decided to add arial Photography to my photography hobby. So yesterday I bought my first used drone which is like brand new, it was really never used. I bought an Autel Evo 1. , I researched and watched a ton of videos from calibration to professional use. I spent an hour yesterday just doing some control practice and really just going over the basics of flight. That about sums it up, there’s where I’m at and I plan on also making my first fpv purchase of a tinyhawk to learn that as well. Fpv racing has me so flabbergasted that I gotta get involved. Hope to learn from you guys, and sometime see you at the meets.
Thank you all in advance.
Jeff
Thank you all in advance.
Jeff
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