The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is considering fining the man, who wants to be known only as Tim, $9000.

And for the record, it seems the sausage was cold by the time the drone arrived home.

"It was freezing," Tim told the Today Show on Thursday.

The journey between the Sunbury sausage sizzle and Tim's home was about two kilometres. The trip was caught on camera using smartphones and the drone's own camera.

"You see a lot of people putting crazy things on YouTube, and that, and I wanted be in on it," Tim said.

"It was pretty low budget," he said.

Tim said he and his friends had initially tried to see whether clothes pegs might attach the sausage in bread but instead opted for a plastic sandwich bag to carry the banger back to Tim's spa party at home.

He took the sausage flight video down from YouTube after CASA authorities warned him he had potentially breached a number of drone regulations.

Breaches include using a drone within 30 metres of people, using it out of line of sight and using it over a populous area.

Pleading his case for leniency, he said the drone did not travel over homes and that he and his friends had checked the safety of the flight path before sending it on its meaty mission.

He said the video was edited to look like one continuous shot but was actually several shots run together.

Tim said he paid $10 for his sausage in bread "as a bit of donation". The going rate in Melbourne at Bunnings for a sausage in bread is $2.50.

He said he's unsure at this stage whether he will be forking out a whole lot more for that cold snag.