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<blockquote data-quote="john*thomas" data-source="post: 526425" data-attributes="member: 16937">It's just an inexpensive one the wife bought me.....probably to get me out of the house more often. LOL&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gearbest.com/rc-quadcopters/pp_180078.html" target="_blank">MOONTOP MT 9916 2.4G 4CH RC Quadcopter with 2.0MP HD Camera 6 Axis Gyro 3D Flip Fly UFO-30.99 and Free Shipping| GearBest.com</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;It's been kind of fun......very small and light and with it quite hard to control. LOL I'm getting better at it and with getting better I've been looking at getting something far nicer.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://store.dji.com/product/phantom-3-advanced" target="_blank">http://store.dji.com/product/phantom-3-advanced</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The video and pics this things can take are excellent. You can actually control it also. The camera is on a gimbal so it's really steady. There are people that have taken 2-3 second city pics at night it's so steady. I've read and read and read and sub $1000 everyone says this is the one to get. &nbsp;&nbsp;Everyone also says that their customer support sucks and more regulations on flying these are coming along all the time.&nbsp; &nbsp;Mine has a 7 minute tops flying time but so far about 2 minutes is the best I can get out of a video because of how difficult it is to control. It gets out of range and shuts off. The good thing is it can fall out of the sky at 100 feet and not break a thing.&nbsp;&nbsp;Not so with the DJI.....it's flight time is 23 minutes but it's a useful 23 minutes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="john*thomas, post: 526425, member: 16937"] It's just an inexpensive one the wife bought me.....probably to get me out of the house more often. LOL [url=http://www.gearbest.com/rc-quadcopters/pp_180078.html]MOONTOP MT 9916 2.4G 4CH RC Quadcopter with 2.0MP HD Camera 6 Axis Gyro 3D Flip Fly UFO-30.99 and Free Shipping| GearBest.com[/url] It's been kind of fun......very small and light and with it quite hard to control. LOL I'm getting better at it and with getting better I've been looking at getting something far nicer. [url]http://store.dji.com/product/phantom-3-advanced[/url] The video and pics this things can take are excellent. You can actually control it also. The camera is on a gimbal so it's really steady. There are people that have taken 2-3 second city pics at night it's so steady. I've read and read and read and sub $1000 everyone says this is the one to get. Everyone also says that their customer support sucks and more regulations on flying these are coming along all the time. Mine has a 7 minute tops flying time but so far about 2 minutes is the best I can get out of a video because of how difficult it is to control. It gets out of range and shuts off. The good thing is it can fall out of the sky at 100 feet and not break a thing. Not so with the DJI.....it's flight time is 23 minutes but it's a useful 23 minutes. [/QUOTE]

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