Bill, There's a Southwest Airlines pilot over on Google+ Pentax America. I think I saw him say he gave up as he couldn't learn to fly the quad-copter he bought. Good luck. :-) Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/05/2014 8:05 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: >> >> >> >> This video shows very attractive views from a drone camera: >> >> http://live.wsj.com/video/how-to-upgrade-your-vacation-with-a-drone/99A58B56-0D70-4373-B65D-2AE2E73887D3.html >> >> I was fantasizing about a remotely-controlled flying object with a >> camera when I was in the middle school. With the recent developments and >> growing availability of quadcoptres such as DJI Phantom, Storm Drone, >> Blade 350, Parrot, etc, I've been thinking about getting one, but it will >> probably take some time until I do. (Not having much available time is >> one of the factors. I am also concerned how robust they are.) >> >> I wonder if any PDMLers have already used any quadcopter+camera >> combination, and if so, - what do you think about it. > > > I have a little toy one on the way. I should have had it on Friday but the > driver was hopelessly lost. The one I'm getting is a really inexpensive one > with a built in .3mp camera and if I'm lucky a 200 foot range, but I want to > learn how to fly them on something a little less expensive. My plan is to > get one of the upper end Phantoms at some point. > I'll probably post videos of the thing crashing into the ground. > > bill > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
