On a lark I bought small drone with the intention of taking pictures of my property looking for roof damage after storms: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087TGVJYM This was about the cheapest one I could find that could take downward pictures.
It used my phone as the screen and generally flew well enough but I could never get it to idle without drifting. I crashed it several times while learning and messed up something so the downward pictures come out all wavy.
After watching a bunch of ukraine footage it seems like drone piloting would be a useful skill in my kit so I wanted to give it another try.
The biggest problem with my drone is that the video transmission range to my phone is really short, as in maybe 50 feet. I can still control it over a pretty long distance but without the video I feel like it isn't as good of an experience, and it requiers re-running the app to connect the video every time it disconnects which is kind of a buttpain.
What I'm looking for is ideally an FPV drone where the kit comes with goggles that don't require a phone connection and is ready to fly out of the box. I want at least say 300 feet of fpv range. I don't care about the best camera or longest battery life, if it gives me 15-20 minutes that is good enough. Ideally it would also have qol features like 1 button auto landing and be reasonably easy to adjust so I could get it to stay in place while idling.
Does anyone on this board know drones and can recommend a kit that doesn't cost an arm and leg?
edit: and while not required it would be nice to be able to take downward pictures
and it won't be constantly wasting power broadcasting its location to the universe
there is that