We got a Parrot A.R. Drone for our birthdays (Mark and I) back in December. And we had a blast with it. Jaryth absolutely loves it. He daily asks to see the drone. And when the weather is bad, he comes indoors and watches our video of our drone as well as other YouTube videos of drones. But then, come January, I stopped talking about it. Why? Well, it got stuck in a tree. [caption id=“attachment_302” align=“aligncenter” width=“497” caption=“This doesn\’t look too high, right? Click to see the full size of the tree”][/caption] Look for the red line towards the bottom of the image to find our fence-line. When it finally fell down from the tree, one of the rotors didn’t turn correctly, so now we are waiting for a repair kit and replacement rotors and shell (which disappeared).

I was cleaning up my photos from the last few days and I found this one taken by the Drone. It’s not that great a shot of our bathroom window from the outside. But if you look closely you can see the drone hovering in the reflection in the window. :-) [caption id=“attachment_251” align=“aligncenter” width=“1024” caption=“Photo from the Drone of our Bathroom”][/caption] I attached the full size image, sorry if you have to scroll.

Jaryth and I drove the drone around the house today. I tried to send it up to Mark’s window, but I misjudged the roof and couldn’t get it up there. I’ll try again later.

This is a photo taken from the iPad as the drone was flying. It’s looking at me!

I would say that if you have any interest in RC planes, the AR Parrot Drone is a great toy. I am usually flight impaired, but the controls were easy for me to figure out after only a few flights. Plus, the fact that you can just let go of the controls to have it move back to hover mode is a really nice feature. When I get nervous or think it’s going too fast (or slow or high or low or right into an obstacle or whatever) I just let go and it comes back to hover. Granted sometimes it comes back to hover too slowly, but (I mean, I recognized the impending doom too late) it’s certainly more bullet proof than other flying planes I’ve seen.