It seems it relies on 3d information about it's surroundings... Perhaps there is a future project here to try and strip out / slim down the kinect internals to

It seems it relies on 3d information about it's surroundings... Perhaps there is a future project here to try and strip out / slim down the kinect internals to use with these copters and then off load the control system right onto the copter since it won't (maybe) need any more external data.