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Customer Video Review Length:: 9:51 Mins

HD Vid: https://youtu.be/h6mhxjClzmo
Please watch my video for full review, here’s the summary:

– 2 batteries, up to 20 minutes of play time
– Easy to fly, durable, take a ton of beating and still is fine.
– Under 7 MPH wind easy to fly. Anything above 10 it’s tough, but doable.
– In open field great range and goes high but I didn’t test ceiling due to too much wind.
– Camera record decent footage. Picture were tricky unless you were hovering still in a spot.
– 360 flips are easy to perform using the 1 button or using the directional flip. You will lose attitude (2-3 ft) with this so make sure you are high off the ground before doing it.
– Button for light, not really that useful but it’s there, may be for night flight.

Overall great unit for starting out that comes with a camera. It will take a beating and still continue to work. Please check my profile for YT link so you can see the high resolution video of this review.

Please note a retail unit of this product was sent to me for a fair and honest review.

A terrific little copter for the price. For people wanting to get into flying quads, but wanting something inexpensive and durable to start with, this fits the bill. The camera resolution is good, but since it records on the vehicle, you don’t know what you are filming until it gets back to the ground and you plug in the MicroSD card to your computer. Also, don’t try to remove the SD card while the camera is in recording mode, or the video clip will be lost — wait for the green light. In my test flight, it seemed that doing a flip cut off the recording. It would start up again in a few seconds, but you will have a series of short videos instead of one long one. It can also take still photos.

It is a toy, though, so don’t expect to be able to do too much precision photography of the birds nest in the top of the tree. The copters steer by banking, so the videos will have a lot of tipping back and forth. But its a great little device to learn the basics of flight. It can take a lot of punishment, and the integrated prop guards are perfect for beginners.

The instructions say to fly in a big field, and my advice is: *fly in a big field*! It is very susceptible to being blown around by the wind, and if you get too much altitude, you won’t be able to tell which end of the copter is the front, and then navigation becomes really tricky. If you aren’t in a big grassy area, the chance of it dropping into someone’s back yard and disappearing is very real.

The designers tried to help you tell which end was the front by having two bumpers extend from the prop guards, a LED light, and by having the front two props a different color than the back two. However, when it starts getting up over 75 feet or so, it becomes really hard to figure out the copters orientation, and you can easily have it running away from you when you are trying to bring it back. I almost lost mine on the second day, when the wind picked up and it took off down the street.

Two pieces of advice prior to your first flight: put your contact information on it right away, in case it gets blown off course and ends up in someone’s yard. Since the manual is rather hard to understand, hit YouTube a watch some of the unboxing videos to get a better idea of how to fly it.

It might also be a good idea to spray paint the underside of the copter white in the front, to help with navigation.

The package contains:
copter with integrated HD camera
a controller
two batteries for the copter
a USB charger that can charge both batteries at the same time,
4 extra props
4 extra tiny gears
a screwdriver
a 2 GB MicroSD card for the camera
instruction manual

Does not include AA batteries needed for the controller