What is the best drone to gift this holiday season.

Looking for the best drone to give as a gift this holiday season? Wondering what is the best drone or accessory to give dad?  Let’s discover some of the best drone gift ideas for any family member, friend or influencer.

The 2020 Holiday season may have you researching new innovative gift ideas to excite your friends and family.  Taking flight is so much fun for everyone.  It allows people, stuck at home, to explore the world in an entirely new light.  Flying allows us to leave our problems or troubles on the ground.

Which is why it is so easy to understand why people want to give the gift of flight.  To give someone a drone is not just a material gift. You’re giving someone the ability to have new experiences, and giving them the opportunity to smile.   Not only that, drones offer an endless myriad of creative challenges and pursuits. Drones can open up new pathways of creative expression and even full blown careers.

Taking flight has never been easier.  This holiday season changed drone gift giving forever. DJI just launched the Mini 2 drone that offers prosumer features in a micro drone.  This drone is so small, if used for recreational purposes, you do not need to register it.  Yet this super small sub 250 gram drone packs powerful videography features.

What defines a great drone as a gift? It really depends on who you ask.  Which is why we broke up this short article to help illustrate which is the right drone for the right person.

1. Stay at Home Drone
2. Best drone for the family
3. Drone gift for photographer / Influencer
4. FPV or Cinewhoop drone
5. Best Drone Accessories for Pilots

Stay at Home Drone

Let’s face it, this holiday season is unlike anything we have witnessed in a century.  That doesn’t mean it can’t be fun!  This year we’re adding our stay at home drone selection! We thought it was a great way to provide a fun gift to those who are stuck at home, in apartment buildings or anywhere else.

What is our stay at home drone selection?  This drone is made to be flown indoors.  The drone is also RTF or “ready to fly.” This drone gift kit will provide your drone pilot with a durable aircraft.  If you’re flying indoors, you’ll need an aircraft that has prop guards so you don’t destroy the pictures hanging on the wall. Also, you don’t want to get any dog hair stuck in there…

The Tinyhawk 2 drone is a great RTF drone kit that also provides extra batteries.  We would also like to WARN YOU, that Battery care is extremely important. These drone batteries are volatile, and can start a fire.  Check out our battery tips here.

Best Drone for the family

When the DJI Mini 2 drone launched earlier this year, we already eluded to the idea that this may be the best drone for the family.  We discussed the liability is decreased when giving this particular drone to a family member. The beauty of the Mini 2 drone is the fact that it shoots 4k video from the sky.  The drone boasts a powerful remote control link and doesn’t have to be registered by your kids. Check out that article to learn more about the best family drone.  Buy a mini 2 here.

Reasons to buy the Mini 2 drone

1. Entry level price point
2. seriously capable drone
3. Registration not needed for recreational flight
4. Powerful video capabilities
5. Reliable components

Perfect Drone Gift for the Photographer/Influencer

Frankly there are so many drones you can gift as a toy or for fun. What if you want to help propel your friends career?  If you have a serious photographer in the family, who wants to take flight, then you’ll need to give them a drone with a serious camera sensor. A drone that offers a photographer full control of the camera.  Albeit, you also want to give them a drone with added protections. This way when they do crash, it isn’t soul crushing for them.

Look you can buy a toy drone for a photographer, instagramer or influencer. Yet hand them a tiny hawk two, without a way to take aerial photos, and you might receive some funny looks.

This is why we recommend a robust drone for the influencer or photographer. With added intelligent features like the obstacle avoidance, the Mavic Air 2 offers the smallest drone with a fully controllable camera. Quick reminder, if you give the gift of a drone, remind the new pilot, they need an FAA Part 107 license to make money with their drone! (Its easy to get as well)

Reasons to buy the Mavic Air 2 Drone

1. 4k Video
2. 48mp Photos for Social Media
3. Full Camera Control
4. Reliable Control Distance
5. Obstacle Avoidance

Best FPV or Cinewhoop Drone as a Gift

Let’s face it, FPV flying is a completely different monster than flying any of the other drones we mentioned. Flying FPV is fast, difficult and has a long learning curve.  Yet this can also be an incredibly rewarding adventure of learning.  If you have a friend or family member who already takes flight with FPV, then they may be interested in the new RTF (ready to fly) DJI FPV drone.

Chances are, if your friend already takes flight with FPV… they are picky about their aircraft.  Which means that you may want to purchase that family member a GoPro Hero 8 (not the new one).  Why?  Well because many FPV and cinewhoop pilots disassemble the case from the camera to decrease aircraft weight.   Giving a GoPro is a great gift, and if you’re not looking to spend as much on a gift… then give your pilot the gift of SMOOTH VIDEO!!!

If you can’t find the right FPV drone or camera, then give the gift of smooth video.  We recommend you buy your FPV pilot the Reel Stead Go software.  This software will literally smoothen out any FPV drone video.  Which will make your pilot video footage look a cinematic as it gets!

Best Drone Accessories for Pilots

While we intend to have a long form article to showcase all the potential and practical accessories, enjoy this shorter list of gifts that will bring joy and value to the pilot you love.

Lipo Bag – It may sound rudimentary… but a lipo bag can contain a battery fire and save someone from burning down the house!

Battery Gauge – FPV pilots use this device on all non-smart batteries to determine remaining battery life

Hand Warmers or Fingertip-less Gloves to fly outside when it is cold!

Backup Battery Light – Light your subjects with a cool color of choice, or charge your phone 10x… your call. This is also the light we recommend when teaching the Interactive Mapping Class to build Virtual Stores.