I have seen a few other multi's around, near my place there is a field used by all sorts of RC guys but I am yet to see another phantom yet. Most of the guys there have never seen one in person either and think its pretty cool even though mine is pretty heavily modified.
I did here that one of the Melbourne hobby shops got cleaned out of phantom with the emergency services buying all their stock to use them for training people on flying quads. They will likely be using multi's for all sorts of search and rescue purposes but they use the highly overpriced quads for that. I saw one on the news that the firebrigade is using and it was supposedly 20k+ and it looked like a big AR drone with a camcorder strapped to it and the video was jello city. :lol: For that sort of money you'd want at least jello free or also a stabilized gimbal I would think.
Here is a link only $27,000 actually and it is a big brother to the AR drone.
http://media.brisbanetimes.com.au/techn ... 56098.html
That one is actually a better video then was on the local news, but really for that much money its a 1 axis gimbal, 1km video range using a DX9 radio. Someone is making some good money selling these to the government. :lol: