The type of product you buy, use one or twice and let it sit in a drawer for the rest of its life.
Do People Really Use Drones or Are They Just Forgotten in a Drawer?
BargainHunterJohnnyB on 20/12/2023 - 17:55
Last edited 21/12/2023 - 10:38 by 2 other users
Last edited 21/12/2023 - 10:38 by 2 other users
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Are you an eshay?
eetswah lad
Doin' lad. Illchay. I'll have 8 dots and a Q.
There are a lot of restrictions where you can and cant fly drones so this may be a reason people give up on them.
i dont ealday aye
Are they what? Let me guess… you found a new word and thought you would test drive it. Good for you.
Eshay (pig latin) talk for shit.
The more you know =☆
When you buy your word of the day calendar from AliExpress…..
Nah they're pretty illchay
If they have a camera on them, and I think most do these days, then they'll always be uses for them and always be fun at picnics and stuff.
Drones?
I thought you eshays just collected Air Maxes, bum bags, license suspensions, parole violations and other assorted eshay paraphernalia?
excuse you
Title changed, thread is ruined
they articulated my thoughts exactly
Killjoy mods. Like potatoes, they are always removing the salt and flavour from the OZB soup.
Let’s start a competing site called AustriaBargain. What could go wrong
There will be a cap of 10 mods at a time, and all of them will be JV.
Nah, they use it once or twice before losing them, not because they sit in the drawer. Don’t ask me how i know.
how did you lose your drone?I've a mate that has found a few cheap ones in his back yard. Kids get the blades tangled up in something and they crash. Like real cheap ones with cameras on them, they look practically disposable to me. All he worries about is how to dispose of them because he doesn't want to be batteries in the red bin.
Mine's living somewhere on the roof/gutter.
A very large number of drones only get used once these days.
Assemble. Strap explosive to it. Point in direction of enemy. It cost you a couple of hundred bucks. Enemy has to waste a million dollar missile to shoot it down. And after they've wasted all their missiles, you've still got heaps of drones left. They're changing warfare.
They're changing warfare
Ahhhh … yes.
They have been using specific RF (radio frequencies) cannons to shoot drones down … cheap as "fried" chips.
Sorry.They're changing warfare.
…until they get hit by RF jamming, GPS spoofing, lasers, EMPs or virtually any calibre of small arms fire.
Enemy has to waste a million dollar missile to shoot it down.
Not really.
Most nation states that are in the news today for various conflicts around the world for example, have plenty of other anti-drone countermeasures besides dedicated SAM/AA assets.
And after they've wasted all their missiles, you've still got heaps of drones left.
Drones have been responsible for an absolutely minuscule amount of casualties in the Ukraine conflict for example, compared to the overwhelming majority of losses caused by artillery and air strikes which have basically been responsible for deciding the outcome of every conflict of note in the past 50 years.
The real utility of low-cost drones is serving as very cheap intelligence-gathering/surveillance platforms that can provide a redundant, live feed of battlespaces and/or to act as spotters for artillery and other indirect fire assets.
As weapons systems, they're not that useful unless we're talking about full-blown UCAVs like Predators/Reapers or Loitering Munitions like the portable Switchblade but these are an entirely separate, purpose-built class of weapons systems compared to consumer-grade drones with grenades strapped to them.
Case in a point, a well-defended, static military installation like the Russian Khmeimim Air Base in Syria has successfully thwarted more than a dozen massed, drone swarm attacks since 2018 while taking zero casualties and destroying or disabling something like 200 or more drones in the process, most of which were quite clearly launched and operated by a powerful, peer adversary (cough cough Murica cough).
This comment didn’t age well.
Yes to both… depends where you live. If you are close to a beach, you will fly more often than the inner city dweller
Saved by the mods.
Now that it is a real question, yes i use mine often.
Depends on a lot of factors.
eg: where you live, what you do for work, hobbies, free time etc.
Depends on the batteries and how many of them, say a battery lasts 6 minutes play time, then you need to spend 1hr charging them, not fun if you only have 1 battery. Imagine if the battery is fixed inside, holy shit how boring that would be…
Also drones can’t fly in strong winds. They get thrown around and ultimately they don’t come back. Lol
Problem is were you can lawfully use them
For example
"Did You Know RPAS/Drones are Prohibited in ALL Parks Victoria Managed Land"
https://walkingdroid.com.au/rpas-drones-prohibited-parks-vic…For me the biggest limitation is were I can use them.
Not alot of places near where I live that I can legally fly.
I bring it on most road trips up/down the coast, but unfortunately with a young family we don't get to sit and have time to fly and capture videos in nice locations.DJI mini, bought 2nd hand, so I'm not too fussed that it doesn't get used much. Still a great piece of technology to own, and use when I can
I've borrowed a friend's controller (his drones have sat in a draw since he had a kid) and am practicing/learning in a simulator. If I end up enjoying it, I'll join a club and use it there and at my parents' farm.
Great selfie device! And I take aerial pictures from my campsites.
Lots of Caravanners, Bike touring dudes and travellers use them regularly
most people though would use them once, find its hard to control, crash it and then give up
Plus limitations on where you can use them, they are almost useless
If you do videos is an interesting device used again and again with endless possibilities and creativity.
The tiny ones reminds me of those (useless) micro digital cameras selling for $5 ages ago. 10 seconds wonders.
Do you mean the mini by Dji?
People use them all right. Go to any serene scenic spot to enjoy peace, solitude and nature… and you will find a drone 😡
Yep, even as a drone enthusiast I find this annoying. I try to only use mine at more remote locations where there is no one around.
I use mine for mapping. Have managed to pick up a couple of cheap spares that had sat in drawers until the puppy ate the controller or something.
Most of the Youtubers I watch wouldn't have a channel if they didn't have a drone. So far I've avoided buying one, mostly because I live in inner Melbourne and there probably sin't really anywhere I can fly it.
It's on a shelf… not a drawer :P
I bought a Phantom 3 Standard back when they were new, played with it a bit at first including modifying it with better antennas and mounting equipment for the remote. (Honestly, I think I get more joy from tinkering with things than the things themselves :P ).
Fast forward to just before the release of the DJI Mini 3 and I sold it for a very good price AND got myself a brilliant price on the Mini 2. Told myself a lot of the reason I didn't use the Phantom was because it was so cumbersome to transport and setup… The Mini 2 has been used a handful of times (although no modifications since it's pretty bloody good out of the box) but not so much more than the old one. It is easy to transport and just folds out and goes. I'm happy to have it, but it's not something I actively use.
If you were into outdoor sport (or had kids) you might be able to record some footage of games, although offset from the sideline where you're not above people where that's even possible.
Given the technology has come down in cost so quickly and there are off the shelf options any fool can buy I understand why restrictions are needed, but it also really hampers what you can do with your drone. Also, the VLOS rule is a little bit of a joke unless you have a spotter with binoculars :P
All this reminds me, I wanted to charge it up and get some footage of an old council pool complex that is being demolished as I think it would provide an interesting view. I'd love to work out if there is an app that allows for time lapse by flying to the same point and taking a photo or short video over and over so you could stitch them together later. I believe Litchi can do planned flights, but it's not something I've ever looked into… holiday project?
Ok