From 2016 (YouTube Version): Learn To Fly Your New Drone Without Breaking Anything...

Okay, you’ve got your eye on a really nice multirotor drone that can perform numerous functions that meet your needs, but you’re concerned about spending a fair amount of money and then taking a chance that it will get damaged when you’re learning to fly it. ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, attended the AMA Expo 2016 and found that there may be a solution to this dilemma.

Jim visited with Josh Schiff, a Marketing Specialists for a company named Hobbico. Hobbico has developed a simulator training system that can be run on a regular computer to get you ready to fly your drone with no hardware risk involved.

As you watch the video, you’ll see that the drone simulator offers the same advantages as do simulators for training pilots in full scale aircraft. Schiff points out that drones have all sorts of automatic features to make them easy to fly, but if something goes wrong, you have to take over and fly it manually…this sounds sort of like a modern airliner dilemma. The drone simulator allows you to do that.

The training system, that they call “Real Flight Drone,” has all the advantages of a full scale complex simulator but costs less than $130. As Schiff points out, the simulator can pay for itself if it prevents just one crash.

The video is worth watching just to see this amazing technology even if you’re not looking to operate a drone.

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