When your drone lands on a highway, there is a good chance it will get run over by a car. Lately, I have gotten lazy and allowed my drone to self-navigate back to its home point, which gets established during take-off. Provided you wait until the drone gets a GPS satellite fix on its location this results in pinpoint accuracy (within inches). Apparently, during my last flight of the day, I did not allow enough time to get the fix before launching. Rather than landing directly in front of our rental car parked on the side of the highway, it landed on the roadway. Even the micro SD memory card was cracked in half and I lost all my aerial photos for the day (adding insult to injury).

Fortunately, I took several land-based photographs during our 6-hour drive from Whitefish, Montana, to Banff, Alberta by way of the Kootenay National Park. We made several stops, including Olive Lake, the Paint Pots, and the Stanley Glacier viewpoint.