Los Angeles, CA —The wildly popular camera multi-rotor camera drones had few women admirers.   Advances in technology has facilitated and enabled the drone camera industry explosion just in the last two years. I became hooked on drones was slightly over a year ago however I was really disappointed by a lack of interest by women in this incredibly exciting and creative endeavor.   Going to model aircraft flying fields was always an all male event.   Not a wife, daughter, girlfriend of the drone pilots were in sight.   Okay, I have a fondness for women and not seeing any of them enjoying something I’m relishing so much was disappointing. I suspect that the perceived technical issues and mechanics of the drones had intimidated women.     There are four things a successful drone camera pilot needs to learn. The actual piloting of an unmanned multi-rotor aircraft is really not too difficult to learn.   The technical issues like GPS and physical i...

Abbe Lyle, photographer, conventional aircraft and drone pilot. Los Angeles, CA —As we speak I’m producing a documentary about multi-rotor camera drones and their pilots. There is so much ignorance, fear and loathing out there clouding the truth.   Every day various conventional aircraft pilots are reporting drone sightings.  Are these things somehow a public threat? This trend is very reminiscent of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s when Hollywood films about flying saucers and little green men were very popular.  Suddenly t here were imaginative but somewhat credible sounding UFO and alien sightings by various airline pilots reported in the news almost nightly. Now it's the multi-rotor drones some of which have been reported being seen by some pilots at 30,000 feet and traveling at Mach 1.   If you own or operate these little devices you know the claims are quite ridicules. As a licensed private investigator and drone pilot I can say they ar...