All right, so welcome to this sort of extra bit of bonus content, the rapid fire, sort of tips and tricks. The main sort, of course content should give you everything that you need to know. But I just wanted to make this extra sort of bonus content just to give you a few more tips and tricks. So we'll get straight into it. And the number one sort of trick is to know your sort of drone laws and country laws. And I know I've said this numerous times, but it is just so important.

Everything else, everything else that I've told you is completely irrelevant unless you know your drone laws and the security and the safety and all that sort of stuff, especially in the country. You know, it's not just getting to a park or a national park or something and then telling you that you can't fly. If you don't know the country's laws, you can actually be stopped at customs and people can enhance Had the drones just taken away. And this is by no means like a forcible thing. They're not stealing your drone, it's more of just a choice, you know, you can either come into their country, and they will take your drone because you're not allowed to take it into the country, or you can leave their country with your drone, the choice is up to you. And so for most people, they still want to go on their travels.

So they essentially have to give up their drone. They're not like a storage service or anything, you just have to lose your drone. So this is what can happen to you if you don't research and have a look at those drone laws, as I've said numerous times. Number two is to use a case. So this is the Mavic fly more combo, carry on case that comes with the fly more kit. And I'm a big fan of the fly more kit, partly because you actually get this specialized case, and it's very durable and very fantastic.

And obviously the maverick two has it as well. You know, do you Got a phantom now have their own cases. Well, most drones have their own custom cases for them because they're quite unique things. Even if they don't, you can usually buy ones online you can buy other ones for the medic medic too, and all that sort of stuff as well. But the main reason is that there are protective padded case that you know, just protects your drone, especially when you're traveling. You've got you know, bags being thrown around bumped around, maybe you accidentally have your bag fall over, you know, even if it's a carry on bag, it gets bumped and knocked over at the airport or something like that.

You don't want your drone they're very delicate. You don't want them just sitting in a bag and going whacked on the side of the ground or something like that. You want them in their own sort of housing, it's no different to a DSLR camera or something like that. You want to protect that in something that's, you know, foamy and padded and all that sort of stuff because, you know, obviously they can get damaged very, very easily, especially when you're traveling even if you, you know, always keep it on you at all times, someone might just bump into you or maybe you've got a run for your plane or something like that. Lots and lots of scenarios where you really need to have it just nicely packed away. Next up number three is whilst you have a bag for your actual drone, make sure that you take it on the plane with you in your carry on luggage.

Now, some people you know, will put their drone underneath the plane, you know, with all the bigger luggage and that sort of stuff. You know, for us, this drone cost us a couple of thousand dollars. So this is not leaving my sight not just from a theft sort of perspective, you know, maybe the airline, you know, loses that luggage or something like that. But more again, from a safety in terms of damage to the actual drone itself. If it's in my hands in my luggage, I can keep an eye on it. I can gently put it in the overhead compartment.

You know, I'm sure you've seen videos of baggage handlers just hurling brief cases and suitcases into the planes and all that sort of You don't want your join to be inside that bag. So not just have a carry case, but take it on board the plane with you in your carry on luggage. So continuing on with the sort of theme of protecting your drone number four is actually using a gimbal clamp. So with most drones, they have a gimbal and these by nature have to be pretty delicate things. They've got delicate optics inside them, and they're pretty much the number one spot of your drone which will actually most easily get damaged especially when you're in travel. So while the overall drone itself might be protected by your nicely padded bag, if you're running around and jumping up and down and you know putting the bag in and out of the you know, carry on luggage section on a plane or something like that.

This tiny little gimbal will be wobbling around like crazy. So you want to have a gimbal clamp and preferably a cover for it as well. For most drones, they come with these clamps, you know, built in You know, that's how they shipped him sort of thing because they know that gimbal is very fragile. So you want to make sure that you keep it and don't sort of throw it away when you actually open the drone. Now, if you have thrown it away and you are traveling with a drone, I'd probably probably recommend going and actually buying one or maybe 3d printing one or just coming up with some way to make the gimbal be protected at all time and held in place so that as you're running around, you know, with your backpack on maybe or maybe your bag falls over or something like that. It is really, really extra protected.

Because, you know, aside from the delicate mechanics, it's delicate optics as well. So again, very similar to a digital camera, you just want to be as careful as possible. Number five is knowing about your airlines battery rules. So obviously when you're taking staff on board with you on the plane, there's lots of restrictions. You can't have liquids over 100 mils or whatever they're up to at the moment. Lots and lots of reasons.

Friction they have one of them is on batteries and how big of a battery you can take with you. Most consumer drones, their batteries are less than 100 watt hours, which is the limit that you can sort of take, you can take bigger ones on board, but they have limited numbers of how many you can take if it's under 100 watt hours, which is you can basically take unlimited. Obviously, if you're going on board with a giant bucket of batteries, you might get a bit suspicious. So maybe if you've got six or seven or you know, a really large amount of batteries may be distributed between you and your partner or your friends or something like that if you can, but ultimately, you're allowed to take unlimited. So keep that in mind. You also can't put these in storage underneath.

So if your battery is actually attached in the drone itself, you can store it, you know, under the plane in checked luggage. But as I said, you probably don't want to do that because your drone itself will probably get damaged. So make sure that all your batteries, all your drones are with you on board in your carry on. It's just much safer and much better. The reason they do that is because they do know that these batteries can be damaged and get into thermal runaway and start, you know, catching on fire. Very, very unlikely to happen, but it can.

So they want to make sure that it's somewhere visible, you know, it's in your bag, if your bag catches on fire, you're going to notice a battery. But if it's underneath the plane, maybe not. So they do usually ask you to keep the batteries with you. But just in general, check your airlines rules, they should be generally the same throughout the world, but just in case, know your battery laws for airplanes. Number six is just in general, you want to try and keep a low profile while you're flying. So while you're actually out there flying your drone on the day and all that sort of stuff.

I'd really recommend just trying to keep that low profile as much as possible. And what that means is not bothering people people really don't particularly like drugs. Some people absolutely love it. And they're fascinated by the technology, obviously myself, but a lot of people have misconceptions about them. They think that you know, if you've got a drone, you're spying on them or something like that. Even though drones are terrible, terrible things to spying on people, they're loud.

The cameras not very good. There's no zoom on them, you're much better off using like, a digital camera with a big lens or something like that. Drones a horrible iPhone tables. I don't know why people think about it. But, you know, that's the general misconception people have. But if someone's coming up to you and giving you grief, or you know, yelling you to stop or something like that, to stop, it's not worth it.

Even if you know you have legal permission to fly there. Just go somewhere else. Try and keep a low profile doesn't really help anyone. And a few things that can sort of help with this on the day when you're actually flying is what I usually do is, one try and find a location that's sort of out of the way to actually take off and land from a parking the thing that you You don't want to be flying or landing new people in general, you know you're at a popular tourist or location, there'll be lots of people in all these sorts of areas just go away to a more secluded spot out of the way where people aren't seeing what you're doing and take off. And then when, once you've taken off, and also usually just fly up as quick as possible directly up about 30 or 50 meters in the air.

Because once you're at that altitude, it's really, really hard to actually see the drone. Now, obviously, the bigger the drone, you have the ladder, it's probably going to be metrics, reasonably pretty quiet. But once you're up in that, you know, 50 meters above the air, it's pretty much impossible to actually hear the drone, you really have to be looking up and concentrating and going, Oh, there's that drone. That's what that noise is to actually hear it. So once you're up in the air, you are not a bother to anyone. They don't even know that you're there.

You can sort of wander back to where all the other people are and just sort of quietly play with your little device in your Hand, maybe someone will notice and walk up to you. But generally people will mostly just have no idea. So it's really good to just keep that low profile. Another sort of way that you can keep that low profile is to actually buy the low noise propellers for the medic. Now, these are pretty fantastic. The ones I've got on here, just the normal ones, they've got wide and stuff on them.

They just came with the drone themselves, but if you get the low noise profile ones that actually they not just a little bit quieter, but they actually sound at a different frequency that's basically less annoying and irritating to the human ear. So they actually do make quite a difference. I've seen them in real loss and comparing it to my drone and how loud my drum is. It is quite good especially if you're traveling you know you're out in a local park and there's no one else there. It's not really a huge deal how much noise the drone makes. But, you know, if you're trying to fly near people, it can be quite good and not really annoy people as much if you're in a nap.

Park and have this drone whizzing and buzzing in your ear can obviously get quite annoying for some people who have come out all that way just to get some, you know, peace and quiet and enjoy beautiful nature. And here you are with an annoying drone sort of thing. So be aware that even if people do like drones, they still might not want you to annoy them with the annoying sound of drones. So sort of keep a low profile, try and be as quiet and discreet as possible. And it'll generally give you a better sort of experience as well because you'll be able to fly and do whatever it is that you want. You won't be bothering people, everyone wins.

So moving on number seven is more about similar to keeping a low profile but more about being respectful of the area that you're in. So even though you might be you know, really quiet, have the low noise propellers on and take off and you know, you can't even hear the drone sort of thing. You may still get people coming up to you and telling you that they don't want you to fly the During the, you know, it's distracting them, or they don't want it anywhere near them, or it's invading their privacy or something like that, again, trying to sort of understand that you're in someone else's country, you're probably in the, you know, local neighborhood as well. It's probably not worth us fighting them for it. So the thing just, you know, be respectful, come back, land, your drone, maybe go down the road or kilometer or something like that, or go to a different spot where that person is, that might be a bit of a pain, but, you know, just be respectful of those other people.

Even if you have school, you know, you're legal to fly your drone there, and there's no law saying you can't fly but they're telling you can't fly. Still, I'd recommend disrespected because it's their country, you know, you just want to be nice. The other thing is if you are flying in a sport that you know is illegal to actually fly inside like a national park and you've got explicit permission from that national park saying, you know, we authorize you to fly in this location. I probably recommend just printing that out on a piece of paper. Maybe it's an email from their, you know, Park manager person or something like that. Or maybe it's a, you know, invoice or form, maybe you had to pay a fee or something for that privilege just printed out on a piece of paper so that when you go there and you start flying, if someone comes up to you and you know, Park Ranger sciences, you can't be flying this here, you can very quickly, very easily handle that piece of paper and say, No, I've had special permission, it'll just make the transaction a lot more smoothly.

Instead of you trying to pull out your phone, which is probably connected to your drawing and you have to quit out of it. It's just much easier, just a single piece of paper. They can even take it home with them if they want. So that's number seven. All right, so number eight is very pure shots. So as mentioned before, when new people more often than not get a drone and take videos and things.

It's usually the same shot over and over again. It's the wide angle the big shot of like a lake or a mountain in the background. It's your Background nature style shot and they can look absolutely fantastic they always usually do. But when you're going out to a location because you're probably not going to go back there, you know, you've traveled all this way to the country to go to this man or this lake or this beach, or whatever it is, you're probably not going to go back there, maybe ever again, try and get as many different varying shots as you can. So, you know, take drone selfies, take you know, slow motion or sped up footage or something like that. Maybe go at sunrise and sunset, or maybe go at midday and sunset, get different times of day get different perspectives of the like, you know that too, like for instance, you might get shots flying this way and then the other side of the lake flying that way.

It's all these different sort of types of shots that you can get and types of different variations that you get, and it just makes things much, much better. When you do get home you want to do that processing and want to make those awesome videos it makes for a much more dynamic and interesting video instead of just shot shot after shot of the same beat, like at the same angle, you know, at the same time of day and all that sort of stuff. So when you do do that, when you go out to a location, make sure you get at least three different types of shots you know, maybe it's one of those selfie shots that pulls back out and shows you in a location maybe it's a, you know, different time at sunset with a beautiful sun setting over the lake or something like that.

Maybe it's one of those automatic flying shots that DJI has like one of the orbits or something like that where it's really nice and smooth and you know, a really unique perspective but try and get three or more Ed can different varying shots of the same location and Dorothy each and every location that you go to on your travels. So number nine is allow extra time so this is actually something that's caught me out in the past as well on our travels where you go overseas, you go to a spot you travel somewhere and you want to take drone sort of photos and videos. But if you don't sort of really kind of think about how long it's actually going to take. Now, flying, the actual drone itself can be very quick. You know, if you've got like a DJI spark or something, the battery's not really particularly long, it's maybe 15 minutes or something like that.

Not a huge deal. But, you know, if you've got a maverick probe, or a maverick two Pro, maybe you've got a fly more combo, so you've got like an extra two batteries as well in there. So you're looking at half an hour per battery times three batteries. So the actual pure flying time itself is about an hour and a half. And then, you know, as I said before, maybe you want to walk out to a sort of more secluded, you know, quieter location away from all the crowds and that sort of stuff. Or maybe it's just a naturally better looking location because there's something fantastic over here.

So you've got to do that day to or maybe it takes you 40 minutes to walk over there and 40 minutes to walk back or something like that. So now you're looking at, you know, at least a good two to three hours kind of thing. Extra on top of whatever it is that you want to do out there, you know, you've still got to do all the actual tourist stuff like, you know, visit the, you know shop or go have a look at the pretty mountain or take photos with the camera on the ground or something like that or just generally enjoy the experience as well. And the last thing you want to do is go do all that, enjoy the experience bingo, right, we need to, I want to fly my drone and realize that I you've got to catch the bus in, you know, the next 20 minutes and you don't have time to actually take any drone videos and that goes to sort of day.

So do sort of just be aware that it can be you know, maybe one, maybe two or even three extra hours especially if you've got to walk out to a certain location. Make sure you include that in your timing when you're organizing your day. And finally, number 10 is just enjoy your vacation. Don't make it all about the drone. So obviously you're watching this because you want to take fantastic awesome drone footage while you're overseas. And hopefully you're now really confident being able to do that and you won't have any troubles.

But at the same time, you're going on a vacation, you're having a fantastic time, hopefully. So do organize to your drone, do go out and take those awesome videos and photos, but then put it away, spend that hour flying it and put it away and focus on the actual holiday, you don't want everything to be about the drawing, you don't want to shape your entire holiday and vacation around, can I go to this dress? Or can I go to that one and booking everything can you know, try and have an actual holiday as well. And I mean, this might be a little different if it's for business reason, and you want to actually, you know, the whole trip is literally about getting shots for your business and on a drawing that kind of stuff. But for more consumer level sort of stuff where you're going on a vacation, there's chances are that a lot of it's just going to be a general vacation and you don't want your drone to kind of sort of ruin the vacation because all you're thinking about is the actual drone itself.

So get your footage Put the drone away and enjoy your vacation. So hopefully these rapid fire tips and tricks are, you know, extra helpful. Hope I had sort of given you a bit to think about. Once again, thank you for taking the course. If you do want to please leave a review, that's always always helpful and I'll see you in our next course.