The Drone Flight Room

Let it snow

     The temperature in Cincinnati this morning is 7 deg F with about two inches of snow and 10 mph winds.  It's definitely not a good day for outdoor drone flying, especially when the drones are micro quadcopters.  It's not good for the drones and not good for the flyer.  But, it is not a problem for me; I simply go downstairs to the basement and my drone flight room.  The flight room takes up about one half of the basement.  It is 44 feet long and 12 feet wide.  There is inexpensive carpeting on the floor to help cushion any hard landings or crashes.  The walls on three sides are solid concrete covered with insulation that is wrapped in sheet plastic.  This also acts as padding for crashes.  The fourth side adjoins the rest of the basement and has sheets hanging down to block any drones trying to exit the flight room.  The ceiling was bare rafters until I covered it with cardboard obtained by cutting apart boxes.  Now, any quadcopter, with propeller guards, that goes too high will either bounce off the ceiling or just stay there until I reduce the throttle.  If the drone does not have prop guards, a crash is most probable.  There are two small windows in the flight room, and three LED overhead lights with plastic shatter resistant globes.  I have inadvertently tapped the light bulbs with my drones without any damage so far.  So, no matter what the weather throws at me, with my flight room, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays ..." me from flying my micro quadcopter drones. 

The Flight Room looking North

The Flight Room looking South