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Does anyone fly drones?

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I'm in advertising. I love flight and photography, I used to skydive and I'm very interested in adding drone video and photography to my list of skills. I went to Best Buy this weekend because I had the bug in me. Looked like the drones I would want were between $600-1000 for decent flight with 4K video.

BUT, since I used to skydive, I also know flying is not like driving a car. I talked to a guy at Best Buy and he recommended I learn to fly cheap little helicopters first before ya know, destroying an expensive drone.

He sold me on a little indoor helicopter that was a little over $10, and said "Learn to drive that, then get a $700+ drone."

The first thing I did with that helicopter was drive it into the ceiling of my house. :) Surprisingly, it didn't break.

I'm getting better. I've learned to fly it around my place and land it safely on a coffee table or the floor or the dining room table.

I'm looking at a Phantom 3 4K for my first big, adult drone. Those are around $700 at the moment and would probably serve me well.

As I live in Chicago, I'll have to get a license. I got all that squared away.

Does anyone here have experience with drones who could give me some general advice as to flying them? Like common issues, etc?

Thanks in advance.
 
leekohler2 said:
I'm in advertising. I love flight and photography, I used to skydive and I'm very interested in adding drone video and photography to my list of skills. I went to Best Buy this weekend because I had the bug in me. Looked like the drones I would want were between $600-1000 for decent flight with 4K video.

BUT, since I used to skydive, I also know flying is not like driving a car. I talked to a guy at Best Buy and he recommended I learn to fly cheap little helicopters first before ya know, destroying an expensive drone.

He sold me on a little indoor helicopter that was a little over $10, and said "Learn to drive that, then get a $700+ drone."

The first thing I did with that helicopter was drive it into the ceiling of my house. :) Surprisingly, it didn't break.

I'm getting better. I've learned to fly it around my place and land it safely on a coffee table or the floor or the dining room table.

I'm looking at a Phantom 3 4K for my first big, adult drone. Those are around $700 at the moment and would probably serve me well.

As I live in Chicago, I'll have to get a license. I got all that squared away.

Does anyone here have experience with drones who could give me some general advice as to flying them? Like common issues, etc?

Thanks in advance.
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I bought a cheap one off amazon to get the hang of it before I got an expensive one. I havent bought the expensive one yet. The major issue I have seen is wind gusts especially in the smaller ones they can get taken right away out of control range and lost.

Probably dont have to worry about this in Chicago but people also like to try and shoot them down.
 
Only toyed around with a small chopper I eventually broke. I saw a guy at the river with a 1,000$ drone, his smart phone synched with the controller and became the "pilots view" It had lots on neat features, like if it went out of range or was low on juice, it had a GPS feature that would fly itself "home" and land within 15 ft of the controller. I would be terrified of crashing it. That 700$ best buy drone can likely be had on the net for 400$. If you look at a drone forum, I am sure you will find unbiased reviews (mostly) and pointers on the best deals and best online dealers.
 
Crovax said:
I bought a cheap one off amazon to get the hang of it before I got an expensive one. I havent bought the expensive one yet. The major issue I have seen is wind gusts especially in the smaller ones they can get taken right away out of control range and lost.

Probably dont have to worry about this in Chicago but people also like to try and shoot them down.
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Slingshot Bob said:
Only toyed around with a small chopper I eventually broke. I saw a guy at the river with a 1,000$ drone, his smart phone synched with the controller and became the "pilots view" It had lots on neat features, like if it went out of range or was low on juice, it had a GPS feature that would fly itself "home" and land within 15 ft of the controller. I would be terrified of crashing it. That 700$ best buy drone can likely be had on the net for 400$. If you look at a drone forum, I am sure you will find unbiased reviews (mostly) and pointers on the best deals and best online dealers.
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I just looked into this on line and to do this in a professional capacity, I need to go through a course:

https://courses.dronelaunchacademy....WxsTLDhP2NYO-XHtbwaiprtprI-rKvjRoCQnAQAvD_BwE

It makes total sense, I can see how these might be abused. I'm pretty sure I could get my company to pay for this training. They're pretty good about new tech.
 
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