Yeah but the damn thing burnt out on me, not my fault.

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What it takes is practice. Don't try long flights at first, just do short ones and listen to the thing. Can you hear the air coming out of it, and if so, does it seem to be coming the same way. What you're trying to do is see if the trim is set right. If it isn't, this is gonna lead to you crashing all the time because the thing will drift to one side or the other. This is the first thing I recommend you focus on, because it will make your flying experience so much better if you get it set right. If yours has a knob, just try to turn it in slight increments, if it has buttons for the trim, press once in the direction opposite it drifts, so if it's drifting left, hit your right trim to balance it out. Do this until it's relatively straight, don't worry about tiny drifts.

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After that, you want to start working on realizing when the thing is near stuff. Don't worry so much about crashes. The little guards around the blades will take your impacts.

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Try not to fly too high. If you hit the ceiling, just throttle all the way down and let the drone fall. The reason being is that when the blades get too close to the ceiling, it's creating this suction force that yanks the drone up to the ceiling and it will stick there. When you get more advanced, you can start messing with throttling down all the way, then adding some power once the drone starts to fall, but for now, just let it drop.

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Start playing with varying degrees of input to make turns. See how much it takes to say, turn the drone about 90 degrees or so. Avoid a lot of input, it just takes gentle manipulation to make it start forward or turn. If you give too much input, you will end up turning much harder than you want and probably will end up crashing.

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When you notice a lack of power, land the thing. It's needing a new battery or recharge. Don't hold out until the last second, you've got enough to bring it in gently and don't need to just cut power. In fact, other than the ceiling thing, I wouldn't recommend cutting power in the air, you'll just incur unnecessary crashes.

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Buy a cheap one. Don't worry about quality or anything like that, you might end up breaking it, but you don't want to buy an expensive one and bang the hell out of it at first. That's why I wasn't heart broken when mine burnt out. It lost the one blade motor,. so it couldn't fly because it had only 3 working blades.

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The last thing I can say is do not fly it outside even if the one you get says it can handle outdoors flight. You will lose the thing. Wind currents will push it off course and you might not be able to get it back to you. Once you get comfortable with flying, if you want to risk it, I mean that's your business, but I wouldn't recommend this at first. The drone that I got was a little microdrone which could handle it and I did it outdoors and it really went flying even at the slightest wind.

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Oh, and be careful how you insert your battery. Don't leave hanging wires. When you take out the battery, be damned sure you do not pull on the wire from either end. These are soldered right in there on the board and will break without too much force, so always pull on the connector to unplug the battery. You'll maybe have to get a nail under where the two connectors meet and pull out, but always put that force on the two connectors which are made to take the stress, not the wires.

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One last thing regarding the transmitter. First of all, always turn that on first before you insert the battery into the drone. This is a safety thing because if something happens, you can just bind and throttle down. Secondly, if you do have buttons to operate the trim, some transmitters let you reset it by pressing both the left and right buttons simultaneously.

I've always envisioned a drone with 3d microphones instead of cameras.

I prefer kites

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