Drones For Dummies

Chapter 5

Setting Up Your Drone

In This Chapter

Unboxing and inspecting your drone

Exploring your drone’s components

Configuring your camera

When you buy a drone, you must research the features and price of many drones to find one that suits your needs. For the most part, drones that you get from DJI, 3D Robotics, or Parrot will be ready-to-fly, meaning they come complete with everything you need to fly. Typically, some assembly is involved, but this isn’t much more than attaching a camera, batteries, and propellers.

Other drones, called bind-and-fly drones, do not come with a transmitter and typically require more setup. Bind-and-fly drones are sold by drone companies that target the more engineering savvy drone flyer. They are very customizable and designed for more advanced users.

This chapter explores setting up and configuring the less complex ready-to-fly drones. The chapter walks you through unboxing your drone and taking an inventory of all its parts and instructions. Then you assemble your drone and update its software. In this chapter, you also see how to configure your drone’s integrated camera to take the best possible aerial photos and video.

If your drone supports an ...