Just like buying Jeep parts, right?
I've been looking into these as well but I am within a couple miles of a county airport. Is it true the damn things won't even take off if you are within a certain radius of an airport?
No, There have been proposals to hard code these dead zones, but the drone would then need a massive database, gps, and extra processing. There may be one or two with this concept available.
Just this week, the GoPro Karma has been recalled because of random power failures. The Mavic Pro is a beautiful design, but it just came out, and is well out of the price range of the average consumer. The Phantoms in my opinion, look too bubbly for me to take serious, despite their ubiquity and how they helped the sport.
When picking a good drone (I prefer quadcopter, Drone is too ambiguous) note that the ones using a tablet or phone run off of wifi and their signal range is as such, not the best. Video quality is another concern. an operator can read through the static, but if you are shooting video, find a rig that records to memory right onboard.
Most of the fancier quadcopters have auto hover and gps tracking, making the sport easy and handy for the average user. But if you are just starting out, and want to practice on something cheaper, I got a Proto-X FPV, It is a small, quick little thing, with onboard recording and a fixed camera. its great for learning how to fly with out all that handicap software.
I can zip that thing around and do tricks, and when you crash it, its light enough to not break anything major.
