Awesome videos. Videos like this are why I bought my Phantom.
How did you find places where you could fly? I have a lot of trouble because it seems like everything is either private land or a state/nation park where you can't fly.
A lot of Utah and many other places are off limits either because it's a national park or because it's within 5 miles of an airport or heliport. The FAA has an app called B4UFLY that you should use to make sure you're not in violation of those no-fly zones or other no-fly zones that may be temporary in nature.
When I first started flying my Inspire 1 Pro drone I did so along the south side of the Great Salt Lake and about 8 miles or more from the Salt Lake Airport so all was well, but then I found a heliport had appeared on the side of a mountain that wasn't there before and using the coordinates I checked on Google Earth -- there's no structure within 1000 feet and it is on the side of a mountain so definitely not a real heliport. The info on it says it's connected to the "Bear River Valley Hospital", but that's in Tremonton about 70 miles away.
I note a crap ton of these suspicious heliports all over the place and it's my guess these are knowingly bogus ports placed there on paper to deny airspace to drones. Even though a helicopter takes off and lands vertically they get the same 5 mile radius exclusion zone that airports get so they're a convenient bullshit mechanism to deny airspace.
What you can do using the B4UFLY app is drag the little red pin with circle to where you want to fly and if there's something that a problem the app will tell you and highlight the airport or heliport that too close or inform you of other restrictions like a national park or sporting event that has a temporary airspace restriction.
But, given the use of these real and bogus heliports in built up areas do not expect to find anyplace close to a city that's legal to fly as you can bet there will be a shit ton of those real and bogus heliports. I pretty much now have to go about 30+ miles to be in an area that doesn't have one of those things. It's pretty clear that they're trying to kill off the industry but my guess is they will not be able to.
The Netherlands is talking about imposing a 25 foot high and 100 foot distance maximum on drones which effectively ends there use. Lots of folks in the USA would love to do the same here but I doubt they'll be successful -- drones are just to important and getting more important every day. They're being used to inspect bridges and wind turbines and perform SAR (search and rescue) operation just to name a few things they can do far cheaper and safer than other methods.
Brian