According to some tests run. BLE can transmit around 250ish feet. That's well over my distance i'm going to need at the moment. My current goal is to get a working prototype that i can expand upon. As far as controls go, i'm open to suggestions since i'm not very familiar with the controlling a quad copter. I can figure that out later. All i need to know is how to transmit and receive data from my Arduino 101 as well as transmit and receive data from my laptop and know the limitations of how much data can be sent over BLE.