Which Drone?

My DJI Mini 3 Pro can do all of those.

Yes the one we had already had those features and definately need those.

my mistake about its release date then but yes we were contemplating getting the Mini 3 Pro same as you have. In the end David decided to buy the Mini 3 Pro.

(editted: I got my facts wrong here, this previously said we ordered the Air2S).

Thanks, the tip about VLOS is very apt - hadn't really given that thought but its obvious now that you mention it and agree. Glad that David already made the decision for the Air2S - its a good point.

Yes we got the Mini 3 Pro with the remote control and is fantastic.

Has all the safety features and more than my Mavic Air.

With the new camera system, videos are extremely stable in very windy situations.

The very first thing I noticed over my other drone, the Mini 3 Pro is so quiet and a few metres off the ground and you can not hear it.

Know nothing about prices, no affiliation etc, just came upon this on the ozbargain website.

Some discounts on Air2S, and HOLIYAY code for 10% off on some? other items. Might be useful for anyone currently looking.

d1store.com.au

Thanks for the compliments Peter and Anne. You have to put a lot of time into the video editing to see what works and what doesn't. I don't believe I'm very good at it yet but starting to get the hang of it. We did opt to buy the Mini 3 Pro (editted: I previously got my facts wrong and said we ordered the Air2S) so looking forward to this as its an upgrade to the one we lost anyway.

Yes we discussed this on our social media at the time, perhaps you missed it. But I am putting together the full story in a Blog. It went down at Gosses Bluff. You are correct that on land you get a GPS location of the last known location - sadly, despite having that location it was not there. It should have been very easy - right by the side of the entrance road 2m from the road edge. Both sides of the road had a 2m or side verge with low spinifex and a few trees, and then on both sides there were small rocky hills which of course we climbed. We walked grid patterns from the drop zone and beyond for 4 hours and could not find it.

We were even joined by a lovely travelling couple (turned out they had also just bought our ExplorOz Traveller app and recognised us) who stopped to help and together we hunted and hunted and they even had a commercial drone (used for his geological work) and despite using that to get more visibility we never found it. All 4 of us could not believe we couldn't find it.

Just to clarify, we both watched the vision as it dropped but yes we were flying it out of sight over the back of the crater in the middle of a programmed series of shots in "panorama" mode however it had insufficient battery to complete that program and it suddenly said "emergency landing" and it looked like it was going to literally drop out of the sky and crash into the side of the rock mountain and I watched David's hand shake as he decided what to do and and put it into manual override and the next minute it crashed. It could well have hit the rock wells and then bounced off in any direction and tumbled - could have got caught high up in a tree etc. We were surprised at the location the GPS had given it wasn't where we thought so we did explore lots of other locations according to our best recollections of the last vision too.

PS we had been having problems with the gimble prior to the crash and had brough it back down for a second take off. We had also been having problems with the batteries not keeping full charge for a few days from a full charge - they appear to self discharge a little so when we got out what we expected would be a full set of fully charged batteries they were not but thought there was enough to get a quick shot of the crater.

What real bad luck. I know no one will read this….lol, but hope you had a permit to fly it in the National Park, as every state in Australia, with the exception of Queensland ban the flying of any drones without prior permits being issued.