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glamphotographer

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Anyone have one?

Where do you safely fly them?

I was thinking of buying one, a DJI Phantom 3. However I believe there are plenty of restrictions of where you can fly them. You cannot fly within a certain radius of an airport, which is pretty much all of downtown Toronto cause of the Island airport, is what I hear. Many events will not allow drones like Toronto Marathon, etc. Why such killjoy? Is worth getting one? You pretty much have to fly in a secluded area or country side. Bluffers park would be a good spot. But I really like to get aerial footage of DT Toronto.
 

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I have owned a couple, the most recent is the DJI Mavic Pro. It's fantastic and folds up and fits in your backpack, controller connects to your phone and also folds up (smaller than an XBox controller.

You can download the DJI Go 4 app and see the restricted areas anywhere in Canada. I've flown mine in London, Prague, Vienna, Chicago and New York.

They've also just pre-released goggles which will really add to the experience.

Highly recommended.

 

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Any advice as to not crash the drone? Practice?
They all have pretty good self stabilising capabilities,...the better ones will come back "home" all by them selves, when commanded.

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Any advice as to not crash the drone? Practice?
Practice in an open area at the beginning and altitude is your friend. They are incredibly easy to fly now with GPS and optical sensors, the drone I mentioned above has obstical avoidance and a Return-to-Home function ( which I've had to use once without incident).

A kid can fly them, you'll be fine.
 

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Where do you safely fly them?
Rules for recreational drones.

If you fly your drone for fun and it weighs more than 250 g and up to 35 kg, you do not need special permission from Transport Canada to fly.

Follow the basic safety rules below. Not doing so may put lives, aircraft and property at risk. If you fly where you are not allowed or choose not to follow any of the rules below, you could face fines of up to $3,000.

Do not fly your drone:

- higher than 90 m above the ground
- closer than 75 m from buildings, vehicles, vessels, animals, people/crowds
- closer than nine km from the centre of an aerodrome (any airport, heliport, seaplane base or anywhere that aircraft take-off and land)
- within controlled or restricted airspace
- within nine km of a forest fire
- where it could interfere with police or first responders
- at night or in clouds
- if you can’t keep it in sight at all times
- if you are not within 500 m of your drone
- if your name, address, and telephone number are not clearly marked on your drone

Kinda makes most of the city off limits.
 

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Rules for recreational drones.

If you fly your drone for fun and it weighs more than 250 g and up to 35 kg, you do not need special permission from Transport Canada to fly.

Follow the basic safety rules below. Not doing so may put lives, aircraft and property at risk. If you fly where you are not allowed or choose not to follow any of the rules below, you could face fines of up to $3,000.

Do not fly your drone:

- higher than 90 m above the ground
- closer than 75 m from buildings, vehicles, vessels, animals, people/crowds
- closer than nine km from the centre of an aerodrome (any airport, heliport, seaplane base or anywhere that aircraft take-off and land)
- within controlled or restricted airspace
- within nine km of a forest fire
- where it could interfere with police or first responders
- at night or in clouds
- if you can’t keep it in sight at all times
- if you are not within 500 m of your drone
- if your name, address, and telephone number are not clearly marked on your drone

Kinda makes most of the city off limits.
Pretty much a kill joy. I wanna fly it downtown Toronto but don't wanna risk getting a $3K fine.
 

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the guy couldve flew that drone over the water. far out over the lake to see the lakeshore shoreline from a far distance, but maybe he was too scared to
I've flown mine over water, you have to pay attention to wind and battery life. I have good NYC skyline footage (see first video for example) as well as Themes in London.
 

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I've flown mine over water, you have to pay attention to wind and battery life. I have good NYC skyline footage (see first video for example) as well as Themes in London.
Sucks they can't make drones bigger. would be awesome.

so if the laws that restricts the use of drones apply to drones. do they apply to all remote control air craft?
I know that drones aren't the only remote control aircraft out there. there's airplanes and helicopters, etc et . hell, they even make remote control jumbo jets.

Also, it's a shame they don't make giant drones to fly.

It's a wonder when they're going to create drones that can carry a person
 

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Problems with DJI Mavic Pro. More research is needed for me before I buy one.

Make your own decision obviously but these are all DFU issues (dumb users).

The first guy had two perfect Mavics and he flew the third into a bridge (DFU), his image stabilization issue means he needs to upgrade firmware and calibrate the gimbal. You can find this on message boards in less than 2 minutes.

The second guy, he has it set to RTH when he's in a no fly zone. I've never read a report of an actual issue.

Third guy, in the App you are instructed to calibrate the IMU and Compass. It's the same for all DJI drones, the fact that he didn't do that and he's flying over people means he's a DFU.

One issue could be that all 3 of these guys live in China so they have very limited internet access..... their problem solving is below par.

If updating firmware, calibrating gimbals, IMUs and Compasses every 6 months or so (each operation takes about a minute) is too complicated or tedious for you then I'd suggest staying on the ground.
 

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Sucks they can't make drones bigger. would be awesome.

so if the laws that restricts the use of drones apply to drones. do they apply to all remote control air craft?
I know that drones aren't the only remote control aircraft out there. there's airplanes and helicopters, etc et . hell, they even make remote control jumbo jets.

Also, it's a shame they don't make giant drones to fly.

It's a wonder when they're going to create drones that can carry a person
Here ya go
 

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this is interesting too...
The human flying drone looks good. id definitrly go for that one. dont even know if its legal. wheres the fun in buying a small drone that u can barely see? why not buy a big ass drone. thatll b fun.
 

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And now you can virtually fly along...

 
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