[joezydeco]

My son has a Mini2, the transmission range on this is pretty amazing.

We were watching a neighbor's house over the holiday, which meant mostly checking for delivery boxes on their porch and putting them inside. We could drive the Mini2 out the window of our house and 2 blocks away to check the porch without getting out of our seats. And this is a suburban area full of houses, trees, and a shit ton of interference at the wifi/4G/LTE ranges. The video never lost a frame.

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Boasting about flying beyond line of sight without a spotter in a cluttered residential neighborhood isn't going to score you many points among the drone enthusiast crowd.

[joezydeco]

Heh, true. Thanks.

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No worries. If there's just one thing I want to get across though, it's that as drone operators, we are collectively responsible for how the broader community views us and drones.

Random drones floating through neighborhoods is sketchy from a safety standpoint but also it tends to upset people, who often think that any drone they see is spying on them. Just a consideration.

Personally I like to fly around abandoned buildings and decrepit structures. Lots of interesting flying to be done and cool vids to be taken, and there's nobody around to complain :)

[ben7799]

I'm super cautious like you but one thing about the Mini and Mini 2 is they don't attract much attention. They're really small and pretty darn quiet.

I've had my Mini about a year and have yet to have any interaction with strangers who see it flying.