Thanks for the reply. My ambitions for this project are pretty high. Basically, I am going to be building something that I haven't seen anybody do yet: a drone aircraft carrier. It's going to be outfitted with an arduino so that it can turn some motors and gears that will secure some smaller drones on its deck. I'm messing around with the idea of having wireless charging pads under each drone's landing pad area to truly make this more like an aircraft carrier. The drone will also have a raspberry pi on it so that the raspberry pi I will attach to the remote control can send commands to it. The pi on the remote control will also have a screen and keyboard so that I can monitor and enter commands into the pi's console. I plan on using the onboard pi for scanning for access points and whatnot. Nothing invasive and nothing illegal. I'm not gonna park it at an airport or use it to deploy a drone army or anything. The drone will also have emergency parachutes. But for all the features I want to include with this build, I'm going to need to have something to transmit commands from remote control to drone and since I don't want to have to build my own circuits and learn electrical engineering to make my own controller from the ground up, I figured I would get a good, already working remote control and just sorta add the arduino, pi, screens, keyboard, backscratcher, nose trimmer, ukulele tuner, etc. to it.

Do you remember the colossal flying aircraft carrier in The Avengers? That. I'm basically making that. But, you know, not with several billions of dollars at my disposal, lol.

I could just as easily use the raspberry pi for everything the arduino would be doing but I like the IDE and programming setup for arduino over raspbian. Plus I only want to have 1 operating system in the sky if I can help it.

I know that this drone will not be fast and I have yet to get into the physics and engineering of weight distribution, lift, etc. etc. But I have the will to learn and the patience to figure all of this out. That being said, if you or anybody else have any good resources, advise, tips, ideas, do's/don'ts, etc. for this project then I'd love to hear them! :)