hi fellow fliers years ago before the advent of the tech that now goes into our UAVs the hobby of flying RC was and still is an expensive and time consuming pastime many hours were spent constucting the machine and then many more learning to fly it most of the time these activities were conducted at designated flying sites and in the company of others who helped new pilots to gain the experience they needed to keep their model from crashing.my first UAV was a small simple one with no alti hold or gps and it was not easy to fly once airborn it required constant stick input just to stay in the air it was great fun though and taught me a lot about how to fly it then i progressed to a UAV with alitude hold and what a difference now i could concentrate more on doing flips funnels and banked turns without the worry of keeping the UAV at a set height then i got my first UAV with a camera GPS RTH and wow i could just let go of the stcks and it just stayed where it was battery getting low no problem it just came back and landed pretty close to its tke off point and then i purchased my first DJI and we all know what they are capable off with all the flight modes and fantastic cameras that they have now. the problem is that now anyone with the means and the desire to own a UAV can go and purchase one and without any training or even understanding of how the thing works or why it does certain things can charge up the battery and get airborn some might say this is a good thing i personally think it is a bad thing and you only have to see the number of posts about UAV crashes and disasters befalling new fliers. this coupled with the bad press that now abounds is why our hobby is in danger of over regulation.( rant over.)
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