Posted by Oliver 500 Wa on September 05, 2020 at 08:00:50 from (73.96.106.136):
In Reply to: school me on drones posted by glennster on September 05, 2020 at 05:54:50:
I have a Hubsan Zino Pro drone. About $400 with extra battery, chargers, etc. You connect a smartphone to the remote control for live video, settings, and some functions. It's good, but getting it all set up is not clearly outlined in the directions. Tech savvy youngsters would likely have no issues, but I ended up having to contact the manufacturer's support to get a couple things figured out. I helped a cousin set up his DJI drone last year and ran into similar issues. The included manuals assume one is pretty tech savvy about things like Bluetooth settings and USB.
The Zino is supposed to have about a 2 mile range. To get that you would need to be over very open area. When I fly over my back woods it loses the signal once the drone is about 1/4 mile away. Thankfully, the drone has an automatic, GPS based, return to home function for when it loses contact with the controller. Flight time is about 20 minutes max. When the battery power gets to 30% I head for home. You need to be aware of wind and direction when figuring out your flight. Very easy to run out of power before you get it back home if you went too far down wind.
Camera and image quality is really good on the Zino. The camera angle is controlled by a little wheel on the remote. You can point straight ahead to straight down or any angle in between. Of course when you are looking down, you can't see where you are going. I crashed into a tree once because of that despite being about 120 feet up. When the tree is is taller than that.....boom.
To me it is just a toy. I have used it to check if the gutters need cleaning on the second floor, but they almost always do so really not a big "help". For looking for debris in a field it might help. Never tried doing something like that so don't really know how good it might do.
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