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1cyl · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Karma :

Bought a SH parrot drone2.0 for a few quid off eBay this week.
Crashed it into a thatchwork of brambles today: Doh!

It looks so easy on youtube but i can't fly it for toffee The world's smallest violin player, just for you!

Anyway. Ownership has led me to find this:
https://youtu.be/vxoQaaI3-7A Drooling

If I understand him correctly, it could easily lift my 4 month old daughter Confused

, who was 9lb 12 at birth and is already starting to make my left gun burn after 15 minutes.
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Stevie GooGs · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Karma :

I've got phantom 2, found it really easy to fly but had a flyaway where it took off and then lost full control.
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SlimRick · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Karma :

I bought the phantom 2 last week. The H3-3D gimbal for the gopro is out of stock though so I'm still waiting for that before I do any really expensive damage.

doggone · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 May 2004 Karma :

I got the Phantom 1 a while ago, that new Vision+ looks excellent for video and FPV but can't really justify almost £1000!
In a few months they might come down a bit.

The phantoms are incredibly easy to fly - with no input it just sits there in one place in GPS mode.

SlimRick · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Karma :

Easy enough to be flown by a girl!!!

doggone · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 May 2004 Karma :

I have tried the Drift ghost on mine but it's a tad heavy and subject to vibrations in all but near calm conditions.
I was actually more interested in doing stills but even though it can lift my Canon S100 easy enough again the vibrations meant only a small % were usable even using fast shutter does not help much.

If you want to use a gimbal to smooth out movements and change the angle the camera in flight you pretty much have to use a GoPro, but I suspect the SJ4000 look-a-like might work.

A good tip if you do any video from them is let youtube do the stabilising.
I have Premier pro with 'warp stabiliser' but youtube does it better in half the time!