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# Flight logs as journals
- URL: https://matteson.ca/notes/flight-logs-as-journals/
- Published: 2026-05-15T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-10T03:34:16.000Z
- Description: The drone keeps better records of my year than I do. Altitude, weather, hesitation — it’s all in there.
- Author: Matteson Machielse
- Tags: Spatial Imaging, #Import 2026-07-11 07:11, #Import 2026-07-15 05:50

Going through two seasons of flight logs for the insurance renewal, I realized the drone keeps a better journal than I do. Where I was, what the wind was doing, how long I hovered before committing to the shot.

The hesitation is the interesting part. You can see confidence in the telemetry — early flights are all altitude changes and aborted lines; late ones are two clean passes and home.