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Drone Industry Editorial, Outlook, Consulting and News expressed by Industry Participants and Leaders.

Holiday Travelers – do not check luggage or cases with your drone batteries

November 14, 2016 by craigi

Holiday Season Reminder! Larger Drone (and other) Lipo Batteries could bring down a plane. They contain a LOT of energy. Please – do not check luggage or cases with your drone batteries – either as regular checked baggage or as “gate check”. Doing so endangers life and property (including your own family). The big NO […]

Filed Under: editorial, Guides, News, Product Info, Uncategorized

DJI Mavic Pro may not show for the Holidays!

November 12, 2016 by craigi

The DJI Mavic Pro has proven to be the most popular Camera Drone ever, with orders outstripping any projections and DJI’s ability to make them quickly enough. The bottom line is this – if you haven’t already ordered your Mavic Pro, it probably will not be under the Yuletide Tree! Current orders (as of mid-November) are […]

Filed Under: Aerial Video and Photography, editorial, Guides

GoPro Shareholders lawsuits? – what did GoPro know about the Karma – and when?

November 11, 2016 by craigi

A number of business stories today concern investigations of GoPro and their current problem(s) with the Karma drone. Specifically, the issues concern whether GoPro knew at the time of the recent conference call and quarterly earnings – that date and time being 11/3/2016. On that date, poor earning were announced and the stock plunged over […]

Filed Under: editorial, Uncategorized

GoPro Karma Drone is recalled after crashes, etc.

November 8, 2016 by craigi

BestBuy has, according to multiple reports, removed the GoPro Karma from their web site. Other reports suggest that the product has been recalled. UPDATE – this now seems confirmed by GoPro…see below: At approx. 3:00PM EST it was reported by several shoppers that the product disappeared from the BestBuy web site. A check of the BB […]

Filed Under: Aerial Video and Photography, editorial, News, Uncategorized

GoPro Karma Drone – Instant Karma, Bad Karma or Good Karma?

October 24, 2016 by craigi

GoPro – Instant Karma, Bad Karma or Good Karma GoPro announced their new Karma Drone in September with the official date of release being Oct 23, 2016. As usual in the tech world, this launch was followed by crosstalk of every kind – some extolling the virtues of Karma and some negating them. The fuller […]

Filed Under: Aerial Video and Photography, editorial

How DJI Dominates the world of Drones (Aerial Robotics)

October 15, 2016 by craigi

Why and How DJI Dominates the world of Drones (Aerial Robotics) Introduction The Basics of DJI – Founding and History 2006-2011 – Laying the Foundations 2013 – The Rise of DJI 2014 – Mass Market Camera Drones become Affordable 2015 – Competition and Clones 2016 – The Dust Settles and DJI Competes against themselves Moving […]

Filed Under: Aerial Video and Photography, DJI Phantom Section, editorial Tagged With: 2015, 2016, 2017, Camera, Comparison, DJI, DJI Mavic Pro, Drone, Mavic

Best Selling Camera Drones on Amazon USA – August, 2016

August 5, 2016 by craigi

August, 2016 Best Sellers – Quadcopters, Multirotors and Camera Drones Rank #1 – Phantom 3 Standard #30 in Camera & Photo [easyazon_cta align=”right” identifier=”B013U0F6EQ” key=”small-light” locale=”US” tag=”droneflyers-20″] Rank #2 – Phantom 3 4K #104 in Camera & Photo [easyazon_cta align=”right” identifier=”B01AZ3KW7W” key=”small-light” locale=”US” tag=”droneflyers-20″] Rank #3 – Phantom 4 – #124 Camera and Photo [easyazon_cta […]

Filed Under: Aerial Video and Photography, editorial, Guides, Product Info, Uncategorized

Counting Drones – How many? Which ones?

July 29, 2016 by craigi

As a “thought experiment” today I wondered how many camera drones have been sold worldwide in the last 3+ years.  I quickly put fingers to keyboard and made some wild guesses which turned out as follows. The time frame for these sales is 2014 onward – being as that was arguably the start of the […]

Filed Under: Aerial Video and Photography, AR Drone by Parrot, DJI Phantom Section, editorial, Parrot BeBop

Drone Sales Forecasts released by CTA

July 17, 2016 by craigi

July, 2016 The CTA (Consumer Technology Association) has released their projections for the US and worldwide Drone market for the years 2016-2020. Droneflyers.com was proud to provide essential data and consulting to the CTA (produces of the CES Show in Las Vegas) in order to help them provide the most accurate projections possible. After studying […]

Filed Under: Aerial Video and Photography, editorial Tagged With: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, Comparison, drone market, How to, MultiRotor, Photography, projections, QuadCopter, Video

Did your Drone Crash? Maybe it’s not your Fault!

June 18, 2016 by craigi

Did your Drone Crash? Maybe it’s not your Fault! “Learn how to fly” “RTFM” (read the friggin manual). “you didn’t know how to operate the product you bought” “Too many drone pilots rely on GPS and have no experience flying a quad in manual” These are just a few of the “blame the customer” type […]

Filed Under: Aerial Video and Photography, editorial, Uncategorized Tagged With: 2014, 2015, 2016, AR Drone, AR Drone 2.0, BeBop, beginners, Crash, crashes, DJI, drone crashes, Fly Away, Parrot, phantom, rating

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