Hello All,
I am curious as to how many drones you guys have, what is your favorite one, and what is your least favorite and why?
I'll be going first but first I would like to share why I even got into the hobby.
Around 2 or so years ago, my father gave me a call and said he was buying a drone from a fellow off of facebook marketplace and I couldn't be left out of the fun so I had to get one as well. I purchased a mavic pro fly more combo and didn't say anything. Later on that day, my father came over to my house with his, a Phantom 3 standard, I let him have his fun and then decided to show him the mavic. Needless to say we were both baffled at everything the drone could do, especially the range! He sold the phantom and we drove 2 hours out of town where he purchased a platinum. It was fun for awhile flying back and forth to each others houses and sending pics of us walking in our yard not knowing the other was watching from above and all, but it soon all faded out and the new wore off of them. I got into long distance flying, software modifying, and amplified antenna setups for a bit, but the new wore off of that after my first flight was a success. Back in the box it goes for another 2 months, Right? Wrong, a week or so passes by and my father calls me and informs me about a missing person whos mother was on the news crying for anyone to help find her son. The young mans name is Kevin Bass, out of Milledgeville, Ga. My father got into contact with the family and we purchased a tent, table, and 2 chairs to keep us comfortable and we FLEW, and we FLEW, and we FLEW some more trying to locate this man to bring his mother closure. We looked on foot, we talked to the local chief of police about his phone pings, and I did as much research as I could of this guy and his social media accounts to try and get an idea of where he might have went to in that dark day that was his last. This consumed our lives for a year, my father and I put in tons of effort to try and find him, but we failed.
Needless to say we both felt as if we didn't have the proper equipment to do these types of things, as he had a platinum and I had a mavic pro, but we still tried. I have made it a mission to be able to have far superior equipment than we did before, and I feel confident if I had half of the equipment I have now, I would have been able to find him.
This experience is what made this a hobby for me. I am always wheeling and dealing with drones trying to upgrade to the next biggest thing and have met some great people along the way. I have also made some pretty great memories with my father during this time, and that is what matters most to me!
Enough of the background, let's get to the discussion!
MY FAVORITE= AIR2S
for the price of this drone and its camera size and 8.5x zoom capability it is Arguably the BEST! , It didn't come out in beta like the m3, and I can't really find anything bad to say about it, it is a great and versatile drone!
LEAST FAVORITE= Mavic 2 zoom
with the release of the air2s, I feel like DJI killed out the 2 zoom. Still does the job fine and has the optical zoom don't get me wrong! I have no complaints, but if I were to do it over again I wouldn't have purchased one over the air2 or air 2s.
I collect them, buy them, sell them, look at them, and sometimes even talk to them when the wife puts me in the doghouse!
Check out the UNICORN spark! it will be sitting next to a couple of alpine white mavic pros here in the future!
I am curious as to how many drones you guys have, what is your favorite one, and what is your least favorite and why?
I'll be going first but first I would like to share why I even got into the hobby.
Around 2 or so years ago, my father gave me a call and said he was buying a drone from a fellow off of facebook marketplace and I couldn't be left out of the fun so I had to get one as well. I purchased a mavic pro fly more combo and didn't say anything. Later on that day, my father came over to my house with his, a Phantom 3 standard, I let him have his fun and then decided to show him the mavic. Needless to say we were both baffled at everything the drone could do, especially the range! He sold the phantom and we drove 2 hours out of town where he purchased a platinum. It was fun for awhile flying back and forth to each others houses and sending pics of us walking in our yard not knowing the other was watching from above and all, but it soon all faded out and the new wore off of them. I got into long distance flying, software modifying, and amplified antenna setups for a bit, but the new wore off of that after my first flight was a success. Back in the box it goes for another 2 months, Right? Wrong, a week or so passes by and my father calls me and informs me about a missing person whos mother was on the news crying for anyone to help find her son. The young mans name is Kevin Bass, out of Milledgeville, Ga. My father got into contact with the family and we purchased a tent, table, and 2 chairs to keep us comfortable and we FLEW, and we FLEW, and we FLEW some more trying to locate this man to bring his mother closure. We looked on foot, we talked to the local chief of police about his phone pings, and I did as much research as I could of this guy and his social media accounts to try and get an idea of where he might have went to in that dark day that was his last. This consumed our lives for a year, my father and I put in tons of effort to try and find him, but we failed.
Needless to say we both felt as if we didn't have the proper equipment to do these types of things, as he had a platinum and I had a mavic pro, but we still tried. I have made it a mission to be able to have far superior equipment than we did before, and I feel confident if I had half of the equipment I have now, I would have been able to find him.
This experience is what made this a hobby for me. I am always wheeling and dealing with drones trying to upgrade to the next biggest thing and have met some great people along the way. I have also made some pretty great memories with my father during this time, and that is what matters most to me!
Enough of the background, let's get to the discussion!
MY FAVORITE= AIR2S
for the price of this drone and its camera size and 8.5x zoom capability it is Arguably the BEST! , It didn't come out in beta like the m3, and I can't really find anything bad to say about it, it is a great and versatile drone!
LEAST FAVORITE= Mavic 2 zoom
with the release of the air2s, I feel like DJI killed out the 2 zoom. Still does the job fine and has the optical zoom don't get me wrong! I have no complaints, but if I were to do it over again I wouldn't have purchased one over the air2 or air 2s.
I collect them, buy them, sell them, look at them, and sometimes even talk to them when the wife puts me in the doghouse!
Check out the UNICORN spark! it will be sitting next to a couple of alpine white mavic pros here in the future!
