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lol'd at the 1974 AMC,

As an experienced drone pilot - if you can, DJI is unbelievable at stopping you from crashing. Start there to get the feel of it (and more importantly not get frustrated and give up)

If you want to learn more freestyle without assistance, i can't recommend enough getting a simulator on your computer and crashing a digital drone a million times first. It's much cheaper. I think there is a lot out there now but i used Liftoff for many hours before i tried to fly a proper drone


I was wondering. I have a DJI and it is stupid simple to fly. I’ve yet to crash mine but I don’t fly it a ton. I’m certainly not trying to fly it through complex paths like an open doorway and into a house or something.


Yeah, I'm flying a super basic drone with none of the built-in crash avoidance / navigation / etc. stuff for now. I'll upgrade to something fancier later, but for now I'm totally satisfied with something I can crash repeatedly and when it breaks, throw it away (or salvage parts from it to build another drone).

I'll look into the simulator thing. I didn't even realize that drone simulators were a "thing" so I had not gone looking for anything like that.


Would love to see a comments feature at the bottom there. Reddit / HN style

Love the concept though. Added it to my Home Screen on iOS


Thanks for the kind words, it's appreciated.

I might add comments down the road if there's enough interest and if there's enough traffic to warrant it. Don't want to add them just yet and have zero comments on everything and it look like a ghost town.

Keep the suggestions coming though as you use it more: matt@emergentmind.com.


I’m also Australian and can confirm this was sarcasm


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