Holy Stone fly away
My son has (had) an old Holy Stone drone we got years ago--HS110 I think--and it has been, for lack of a better term, weird for a while. We learned that if you only use the provided controller, instead of a phone, it would follow your commands 90% of the time (an improvement to maybe 50% of the time if the phone was also attached). But lately it wasn't accepting inputs and would do things on its own accord. It's cheap, I didn't expect DJI level of software (I use a DJI Mini 3 for work recon), so we just had fun and enjoyed its random acts of disobedience. But last night, it left us. Maybe it decided to go to a farm upstate or something. My son was flying it and he said it's not listening to me...and he was right. The drone went up to about 100 feet and then started flying away, slowly. It went past the field beyond our property and we were trying to get it to land (I even opened the phone app) but it had its own mission. It kept flying farther and farther away and we lost sight as it crested a small hill. Hopefully it's in a better place now.
So we need another [budget] drone (under $200). I can't let him fly my work drone, so I was wondering if any newer Holy Stone drones are decent and better at not abandoning their pilots?