Drones, who else is in to them?

I just got my drone in June ( it was the BEST birthday gift ever! ) and I am totally hooked!

Its a DJI Phantom 3 Standard ( not the cheapest but not the top of the line )


Anyone else? I've only taken it up about 300 feet and keeping it in line of sight until I can get more experience. I just bought some accessories ( Hard case, Gimball protector, Blade Protector, 128 GB SD card, Extra Battery, 3 lenses )
Oh I can seriously put more $$$$ in to this

 

I love drones haha I got into them even more when I saw Casey Neistat(Youtube Vlogger) use them. Trying to save up for one and cool vid!

 

I love drones haha I got into them even more when I saw Casey Neistat(Youtube Vlogger) use them. Trying to save up for one and cool vid!

Now you got me curious - I will have to check out that youtuber. Thanks

Any one else or am I the only drone flyer here that also happens to love fish?

 

Haha you just might be!

 

Haha you just might be!

- I am on the drone forum - I haven't posted anything yet, just might have to but it seems like it's a "Boys" sport. Just lurking. Kind of intimidating! LOL

 

Show those boys how it's done!

 

Show those boys how it's done!

LOL - I am changing my gender and user name so I don't come off as a "girl"
I really am interested in the sport or whatever you call it and info so don't want it to become a pickup sort of thing........

 

When I was young we called them remote control planes. I still love them today. Although now I like helicopters

 

When I was young we called them remote control planes. I still love them today. Although now I like helicopters

HAHA yes, RC's - do you have one? the "drones" quad copter, that is........

 

Not any more. I do enjoy my sons helicopter tho

 

Not any more. I do enjoy my sons helicopter tho

I hear those are a lot harder to fly?
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I don't know I never flew a quad copter, so I can't compare

 

Bought the Mavic Air last week. What a blast!!

Anybody flying these things? Just got it so just local pictures. Still learning how to fly.

 

Nah, they creep me out. Nice shots though!

 

Ah, cool pics! I don't have one, thought about it... I have allot of trail cameras to watch wildlife...Love interesting pictures and videos.

 

Don't have one, but some people like to fly them over the lake when i'm fishing. I try to hit them when I cast.

 

Thanks for that useful information. I will fly higher over fisherman for now on. Lots of aggression toward drones! For some reason when people see them they think there being spied on. Like the world is really interested in what there doing lol. Well keep casting and I hope you catch one. One less drone spying on ya.

 

Any one have drones? I have a Mavic Pro

 

I’ve wanted a mavic pro for awhile now but pretty expensive so I just put $ into fish and drool over the mavics.

 

I once got a $50 drone from Aldi...

 

I won a large drone from a store once. I liked it but I was not very good at flying it. It got wrecked several times!

 

I used to have a drone but destroyed it, then I bought a rc plane the carbon cub S+.

 

I have a few but mine are home built.
200, 150 and 470



My fancy tripod finally put to good use



Vtails (bigger one was just put together before electronics) 400 and 283



XJ470 distance check. Went out to 540m before the video got fuzzy. Controls were fine though.

 

I started training on a DJI Tello.




Will start flying one of these soon.



It is an older custom unit with a fixed GoPro and FLIR.

The sister unit has a GoPro on a gimbal but no FLIR.

Hopefully by next year, we will have 2 DJI Matrice units with dual gimbals.

 

I have a DJI Mavic Pro as well, but haven't gotten many chances to fly it just yet, because the weather this year has either been swelteringly hot ("it's too hot outside to hang around in the sun and fly a drone, I'll have to do it later this week...") or cold and cloudy where the colours of the landscape aren't brought out as much as they are in the sun. Now that the leaves are changing to brilliant reds and oranges, I'm hoping that there will be just one day where it's suitable drone weather, but it's calling for rain and cold for a week straight so we'll have to see... :/

 

Nice I’ve got a Mavic Air. Just had it in Aruba. Great toy still learning how to fly .

 

If you guys want to learn how to fly a quad and not crash your $$$$$ quad/drone, try a Hubsan X4. $25 and flies very well. Small enough to fly indoors if the weather isn't good.

 

When I said learning to fly I really mean getting the guts to let it get out of sight. It really flys easy it’s just flying it when you can’t see it and your using the iPhone to follow it. Furthest I flown is 2000 ft away. The thing goes a mile and a half. The mavic pro goes almost 4 miles. Takes some time to get used to it.lol.

 

The furthest I have flown my mavic pro is 4 kilometers (I don’t know what that is in miles, it is set in meters) and the highest I have flown it is 1600ft

 

I did but it met a tree and the tree won unfortunately

 

Well we've not got one but we have many neighbours here with them flying them over...to me what's the point when you have Google earth taking pic's on a regular basis yearly....just imagine it ladies if you was sun bathing top less

Just got it so just local pictures. Still learning how to fly.

What brand you got because it does take some clear shots better than some cameras.

 

DJI mavic air. Some pics from Aruba

 

DJI mavic air. Some pics from Aruba View attachment 534881View attachment 534882 View attachment 534883

Those are nice shots and the last one looks stunning

 

Nah, they creep me out. Nice shots though!

Is that you in that car Scarface ?

 

I have one but it's broken. Might get a new one eventually.

 

East side Manhattan with a buddies mavic pro

 

Holy cow that's high up !

How expensive is the Mavic?

 

How expensive is the Mavic?

About $1000

 

The air is about a 1000. An older pro would be 600-1000. The new pro is about 1600.

 

I really want the
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