This quadcopter, or drone, flies really well. Even after one test flight, you can see the flight that occurred in it's unedited glory. And yes, I was teasing my husband by repeating myself, but it was all in good fun. Even the cat got involved with the flights! He loves to follow the drone and jump at it. I do want to add, with all the weather and everything else that has been going on, I haven't flown this (nor has my husband) outside, so I can't attest to how this handles wind, but it flies pretty well inside.
Now that you have seen the drone in action, I wanted to show off it's appearance, because I know the quality of the video isn't truly the greatest in the world. Being a quadcopter, it has 4 propellers, and two are labeled A, and two are labeled B. On the underside, two of the arms have red lights, and the other two have blue.
Underneath the propellers, the have a little larger motor than another quadcopter that I own, however, the gears are very large. My smaller quadcopter does not have any gears at all. The gears are there to help increase torque.
I would recommend not using the guards, I had to bend two of them to even keep them from being clipped by the propellers, and they were making my flights really weird, so I removed them. It flies a lot better now.
The feet are kind of flimsy, but they hold the quadcopter quite well. You do have to assemble the quadcopter a bit, with the feet and the guards if you choose to use them. You also have to attach the camera.
The camera is for recording video and taking still pictures only, it is not for first person view while flying. I thought the screen in the controller might mean that I would be able to have first person view, but sadly, it does not.
The controller has a screen on it that displays information about the quadcopter. It shows battery voltage, throttle, signal strength, pan and tilt, as well as several other things. The controls are pretty fluid and easy to manuever. The controller is a lot lighter than one would imagine, it looks like it would be heavy but it is actually really lightweight. There are some buttons to compensate for tilt and spin on the next to the analogue sticks.
I do want to warn you, while flying this, it is incredibly loud. If you couldn't figure that out from my video. You have to factor in though, you have four little motors going, one for each propeller, so it is a little loud. With it's size, it is louder than my first quadcopter I had owned, but I do believe it is proportional (it is after all about 4-5 times bigger!).
Pros:
*Easy to control
*Large gears with each motor to help with torque
*Flies well without guards
*Minimizes chance of damage to drone during shipping due to not arriving fully assembled
*Lightweight controller (easy to carry)
*Camera to capture video and still photos
Cons:
*Feels a little flimsy, but lightweight means it takes less power to fly
*Loud
*Not as good flying with guards
You can check out this drone on Amazon HERE. If you think this was an informative review, please don't hesitate to comment below! ♥
Disclaimer: I did receive this drone at a discount in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
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