Learning how to fly a drone

Written by Patrick Sherman As seen in the March 2016 issue of Model Aviation.More than 400,000 drones were released into the wild during the recent holiday season and, as spring approaches with the promise of improving weather, no doubt many new pilots are anxious to take to the sky for the first time. This raises a question which uncounted generations of humanity have lived and died without ever having asked: What is the best way to learn to fly a drone? Whatever expertise I possess in this regard is the result of having gone about it in precisely the wrong way. Take full advantage of my…