what's going on guys I'm Brett Garamella with brettgaramella.com, and today I'm
going to talk about why the iPad is still the best device to use while flying your
DJI drone so let's get right into it all right so when I woke up it was really
sunny out and I thought it'd be a great day to shoot and then of course the
clouds came over that's the way it goes in this channel and it's time to make a
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become a better drone pilot so a lot of people talk about having a really bright
screen or like a smart controller for the Mavic tube or using a shade when
they fly especially on a sunny day like it has been at moments during today at
the beach I don't need a really super bright screen I don't even need a hood
to go around my monitor instead I'll show you a few tips that I use during my
entire professional career as a drone pilot I have my part 107 license I do
commercial shoots and honestly I've never used a shade and I've never had a
super bright device other than my iPad so I'm gonna show you how I do it maybe
this will be helpful obviously in certain circumstances you might need a
shade you might need a bigger monitor etc but for me I've always used this and
it's gotten the job done so one of my fans louise pablo commented and told me
to come to Haulover Beach so I went here today and it was a bit of a shock
because it was a nude beach and even though I was a new Beach I think it was
a new beach for senior citizens so mainly guys over 70 years old so I'm a
little bit scarred but we're gonna keep it moving but we're gonna get into what
I do so when I go to the beach and it's super sunny out what I like to do is to
find a spot almost like this around me so I can either walk down a little path
near a beach so when you're at the beach there's these little places near the
beach where you can find these little like inlets and paths where you can go
down and there's usually a tree or some type of shrub where you can find some
shade you don't need a lot of shade to fly all you need is a little bit to
the screen so what I do is I watch my drone while it goes up in the air and
then once it's at a safe altitude where it's not going to hit anything where
it's over any obstacles buildings trees etc then I just look at my monitor I
make sure that my monitor is pointing towards the shrubs are pointing towards
the tree so it's in complete shade and once you have your monitor and complete
shade you can just fly normal and you could have a spotter or someone else
watching the drone if you can't see it usually the shrubs aren't so
encompassing or a tree isn't so encompassing that it blocks your entire
view so I could just take a look I could see my drone in air if I need to and
then mainly I just look at my monitor and I fly like that and when I fly
commercial jobs what I do is I just look at my monitor make sure I get the shot
perfect and I have my people that I'm with an assistant and so forth look at
the drone so I'm just concentrating on nailing the shot if there's no trees
around usually there's a building somewhere or some type of structure that
you could get behind it so what I do is I get behind that so here we have the
little lifeguard houses that I go behind so what I do is get behind the shaded
part of that structure and the same thing as the plants or the tree I just
point my iPad towards the structure towards the shaded part and I'm able to
see my monitor perfectly fine don't need to even have that bright of a screen and
I can fly perfectly nailed a shot every time now I fly pretty regularly for the
past two years and I've never had an issue this method has always worked for
me granted take it with a grain of salt I
understand if you're doing a super high-end commercial you're using a red
with a m600 or you're using inspire too and you have a whole crew with you
separate monitor that's a different story but for most shoots and most
people you're just going to use an iPad I like it because it's about nine and a
half inches around there so it's much bigger than the smart controller or the
crystal sky and of course a lot bigger than your phone so it gives you a nice
screen real estate to be able to really nail the shot and this is my
recommendation one last thing I'd like to mention is that you can use
third-party apps like pix 4d or drone deploy any of these apps are using for
3d mapping inspections agricultural use you
use with your iPads so that's a huge advantage of having an iPad I know the
smart controller for the Mavic - you can do that as well but it's not as big and
it's also a relatively low price some people say they don't like Apple
products but I've never had an issue I've also get tremendous transmission
and distance when using my iPad one little pro tip before I go you can just
turn off your Bluetooth when you turn off your Bluetooth you'll be able to fly
a lot farther or get less interference from different frequencies so that's one
little tip that I use as well alright guys that's it for today's real raw vlog
I will put links to this little piece that I use for my iPad as well as this
little holder which is made of metal I find it's very easy to fly I just
applied like this with my hands here and I pad right above it super easy to fly
I'll put links to those in the description below and now we're gonna do
the fan of the day so the fan of the day is being being near the man thank you
for all your comments and support I do appreciate it you always tell me to be
safe which is probably a good idea because I've had three near-death
experiences so appreciate it alright guys if you found this video helpful if
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