{"id":6491,"date":"2025-04-03T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/04\/03\/my-hanmilt-hk-22-drone-video-and-a-still-picture\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:18","slug":"my-hanmilt-hk-22-drone-video-and-a-still-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/04\/03\/my-hanmilt-hk-22-drone-video-and-a-still-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"My Hanmilt HK 22 Drone &#8212; Video and a still picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QUSSQo3NRew?si=7BKBNlaXX_t8LdPU?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>This is the beginners&#8217;s drone that I was using in the Dominican Republic this past winter. It was really great. The hover capability was amazing &#8212; this made it very easy to learn to fly. If it looked like I was getting into trouble, I would just go up a bit, hover, and figure out what to do. Obviously I could not do this with a fixed wing R\/C plane. Photography was excellent. See picture below &#8212; I took this shot from my drone this winter. I have a video on the Patreon channel. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I flew this thing dozens of times, and only had one crash. It was very minor. I am still using the original propellers. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250128031036A.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"3072\" data-original-width=\"4096\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250128031036A.jpeg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><b>The brand names change on these things very quickly, and Hanmilt might not be available anymore. But there are a lot of drones like this. I paid about $100. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I think my next drone will be a DJI drone. But this will have to wait until I return to the Dominican Republic in June (I am in the FAA&#8217;s &#8220;No Drone Zone&#8221; around the national capital.) Here is a really interesting video on DJI: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=weDjwOyZaMc&#038;t=225s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=weDjwOyZaMc&#038;t=225s<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the beginners&#8217;s drone that I was using in the Dominican Republic this past winter. It was really great. The hover capability was amazing &#8212; this made it very easy to learn to fly. If it looked like I was getting into trouble, I would just go up a bit, hover, and figure out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/04\/03\/my-hanmilt-hk-22-drone-video-and-a-still-picture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Hanmilt HK 22 Drone &#8212; Video and a still picture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dominican-republic","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6491\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}