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I have been flying RC since 1985, thousands of flights with planes and helicopters. I've built my own drones (we called them quadrotors before the media started this drone bullshit) and owned several from DJI, including the Phantom 3, Phantom 4, original Inspire, original Mavic, and now just fly a Mini 2.
Compared to plane or especially a heli, a drone takes zero experience to fly. For a pilot like me, drones are not fun and pretty boring. But if you're never flown anything before it's going to be a lot of fun and may even lead you to trying a plane later.
On the mini 3, you press a button and it takes off. You press a button and it lands. It uses GPS to hold itself in a static position. If you think it's getting out of control, let go of the sticks and it will hover in place. The wind hardly affects it (within reason, don't fly in 30mph winds obviously) and it's so easy to fly that my 8yr old grandson flies mine.
Most people with these cool mini drones just use them to take photos. You can literally fly to wherever you want, take your photos, and press return to home. The drone will fly back to you and land all by itself.
DJI has done a good job of making a complicated aircraft that is hardly controllable by itself and added GPS, motion sensors, and autopilot that is so good, they are almost idiot-proof.
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