Chapter 11
Maintaining Your Drone
In This Chapter
Performing routine maintenance
Creating a post-flight checklist
Storing your drone
Repairing your drone
Finding parts and support online
Drones require great care. Chapters 9 and 10 show you how to fly a drone starting with pre-flight checklists. When you finish flying, you don’t want to just toss your drone in the garage until you are ready for your next flight. There is an extensive amount of work that should be done prior to packing away your drone. In this chapter, you review a sample post-flight checklist and get tips for creating your own. Your post-flight checklist will walk you through inspecting your device for damage, cleaning up your drone, inspecting and handling batteries, and storing your drone.
As you continue to log hours flying your drone, your chances for crashes or hard impacts will increase. Drones are durable but not indestructible, which means that in time you will need to repair your drone and replace parts. By ...
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