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Originally Posted by Tembo
Was quite surprised that they took along a quadcopter.
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Grrrrrr! I was irritated when I read that. I bought one of these - https://www.dji.com/phantom-3-standard - hoping to take it down there, but the tour co said not to and I hadn't flown a drone before, so for both those reasons bought this instead - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00OCFMV...986871_TE_item - on the basis that if it got confiscated or crashed I wouldn't be losing very much.
I got through Algiers and Djanet airports OK (having heard from someone on the LHR-ALG leg of my flight that his brother had got 5 years in prison for taking a picture of an Algiers courthouse, then saw someone with a pair of OPERA GLASSES having to hand them in at Algiers airport ), so then I spoke to the main tour guide, who said "don't fly it when we're near the army or police, but otherwise no problem". So I did, but unfortunately it didn't fly that high or last very long before it crashed one time too many. I didn't get much footage from it.
Once back in the UK and with a tiny bit of flying practice under my belt, I flew the Phantom for the first time and seeing the footage I could have got with THAT if I'd taken it to Djanet rubbed salt into the wound - https://youtu.be/kns6P0jJVhs
But then, the Phantom has more metal bits in it than the cheap plasticky one, so who's to say it would have got through the X-rays OK just because the other one did?
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