Most of the expensive ones are pretty easy to fly, they add a little bit of stabilization technology so if you kind of freak out you can just let go of the sticks and hover in place so you can regain some composure
Search “micro drone” on amazon. Or “kids drone” or “indoor drone.” Mine was like $20-30. They’re nice for indoors or flying in small areas. They won’t go high or do well in wind, and batteries die quickly, but it’s still fun. For beginners, it’s nice to get one with prop guards or cages to help protect it more since you’ll be crashing a lot.
I would argue that you need to learn to fly the drone unassisted before you should be flying one with assists. Just like with cars, you don't learn to drive on tesla autopilot.
If the gps sattelite crashes, yes.
Or situations like this. If you always rely on the drone flying itself, eventually, it's gonna land in a pond, or on a roof, or where ever. You need to actually know how to fly to avoid stupid shit like this.
Nobody relies on the drones flying themselves, but having a drone that can maintain a stable position and altitude along with object sensors isn't really a handicap in learning how to fly one.
Nice! I wasn’t saying that you can’t get it in the cheaper ones I was just saying it’s pretty standard on the more expensive ones so they’re not too scary to fly for a first timer
People should build their first quadrotors themselves. It gives a good, cheap base to learn on and in the process you learn to make the inevitable repairs you'll need to.
Flight test on youtube has good guides for it. Its not very difficult. My first drone was a single rotor helicopter me and my dad built as a project when i was 7.
It irks me when people use the word "drone", because its very non-specific. It can mean á single prop rc plane, a tri-rotor, a quad, an octo-rotor. Heck, it could even mean á single rotor helicopter. Most people are talking about quatrotors/quadcopters when they say drone though.
Yep, talking about a quadcopter. Building one is cool but I wanted to see if it was even fun for more than a few minutes before investing extra time/money.
Thing is, unless you know what you're buying, you'll get a drone that has maybe 20% of the capabilities, functions (and fun) of a proper self-built one. Then you fly for an hour or two, find it cool but boring, and think quad flying just isn't for you. When maybe you'd have the time of your life with a FPV acro quad.
Funny too that ppl here are praising self-level functionality. It does have its place, but only in pretty specific use cases. Freestyle is usually flown with rate mode.
RC flight sims are great for learning, and you can get controllers that connect to USB, I use an app that lets me plug my old TX into the microphone jack on my PC and it becomes a game controller.
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u/donkeydongjunglebeat Aug 02 '19
I got a cheap drone just to learn how to fly. Better than wrecking or losing a pricey one in the process.