Taking Photos of a drone in-air with another drone! Looks awesome!

Yaros · Dec 12, 2022

I don't know if it is just me but when I get a new drone, I like to take a photo/video of that drone flying from another drone. Does anyone else do this here?

Here are some of the photos of my drones flying in-air! (Click on the image to enlarge!)

Mavic Air 2 in flight! Taken with Air 2S from above
NOTE: Right after this photo was taken, the propellers of the Air 2 touched Air 2S's landing gear, and I was lucky it didn't fall!
Please be careful when attempting such photos!!

Photos of my S500 drone flying. Taken with Air 2S

S500 Drone flying, filmed with Mavic Air 2

Air 2S in the air, slo-mo

Ty Pilot · Dec 12, 2022

Here are a couple of stills I took and below is a video where me and a friend were practicing flying in formation. Of course straight flight is possible at these distances but not much else.

HEAVYD · Dec 13, 2022

dang it does ima try tomorrow!!!

360 Guy · Dec 13, 2022

Nice shots and bothe drones are steady as a rock.

Nanny Ogg · Dec 13, 2022

Yaros said:
I don't know if it is just me but when I get a new drone, I like to take a photo/video of that drone flying from another drone. Does anyone else do this here?

Here are some of the photos of my drones flying in-air! (Click on the image to enlarge!)

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Mavic Air 2 in flight! Taken with Air 2S from above
NOTE: Right after this photo was taken, the propellers of the Air 2 touched Air 2S's landing gear, and I was lucky it didn't fall!
Please be careful when attempting such photos!!

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Photos of my S500 drone flying. Taken with Air 2S

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S500 Drone flying, filmed with Mavic Air 2

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Air 2S in the air, slo-mo

Will "active track" work to have one drone follow the other one?

Ty Pilot · Dec 13, 2022

I doubt Active Track could track another drone in 3D space but I would like to know if someone has tried.

In order to get that clip I made, we were using two cruise control devices that I designed to hold the sticks in a very precise manner. I was flying the Camera drone and once we had forward speed established, I was able to 'rudder' over to within about four feet and hold position.

In my tests, (and I did a lot of them), anytime a 3rd dimension/axis like altitude comes into play, such as one drone climbing to reach the other, then even the slightest movement can cause the drone to go out of frame and reacquiring it is very hard. The cure for this is to stay as much as 30 feet apart but then it becomes hard to see the other drone when your outdoors starring at a tiny screen. I suspect active track would have these same difficulties.

PHZ · Dec 13, 2022

Ahhh. Part 107 rules forbid one pilot flying two drones simultaneously. Just sayin'

Yaros · Dec 13, 2022

Ty Pilot said:
I would like to know if someone has tried.

It doesn't work. At least with DJI drones, when clicking start in DJI Fly it says that the subject needs to be a person or vehicle.

Maybe it would work with Litchi, but I haven't tried it because I don't want to crash 2 drones at the same time.

Ty Pilot · Dec 13, 2022

Yaros said:
It doesn't work. At least with DJI drones, when clicking start in DJI Fly it says that the subject needs to be a person or vehicle.

Maybe it would work with Litchi, but I haven't tried it because I don't want to crash 2 drones at the same time.

Good to know.

Ty Pilot · Dec 13, 2022

PHZ said:
Ahhh. Part 107 rules forbid one pilot flying two drones simultaneously. Just sayin'

Who was flying two drones?

Ty Pilot · Dec 13, 2022

Just to be clear, in my video, each aircraft had it's own pilot.

Ty Pilot said:
Here are a couple of stills I took and below is a video where me and a friend were practicing flying in formation. Of course straight flight is possible at these distances but not much else.

Ty Pilot said:
In order to get that clip I made, we were using two cruise control devices that I designed to hold the sticks in a very precise manner. I was flying the Camera drone and once we had forward speed established, I was able to 'rudder' over to within about four feet and hold position.

doncooke · Dec 17, 2022

Not exactly drone-to-drone, but trail-camera to drone. I had to tape a hand-warmer packet to the Mini-II so the infra-red detector on the trail camera would see it. Trail camera has a close-up lens taped on to get birds on that snag in focus.

Ron Staats · Dec 17, 2022

A couple of drone to drone photos a friend and I have done

BroomRider · Dec 19, 2022

This was during an event earlier this year, & I noticed out of the corner of my eye, someone else was also flying a drone, so I took a pic of it.

Not having discussed it 1st with the other pilot, I didn't try to go fly too close to it to get a better shot.

In the 2nd pic, you can see the tiny spot of the other drone in the upper right of the pic, against the sky.

My 1st time seeing someone else flying a drone in my area - afaik, there are no nearby clubs or organizations, so aside from this single occasion, I'm always flying solo.

For the inevitable “Karens”, No, I didn't fly over groups of people; in fact, I went out of my way to avoid &/ fly around them & No, I wasn't doing this in violation of Part 107, or any other commercial endeavour. Purely for my own practice & enjoyment.

& No, I didn't imbibe in anything that would violate the safety rules of either flying or driving (I have a CDL).