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Pros:
Fully Modular parts; You can order replacement parts for anything and everything on the drone. Including new engines for the propellers, new wing guards, or any of the plastic peace that form the body. This is great if you buy multiples as you can trade, and salvage parts as needed. It’s also great for a first-time drone as you can repair any damage caused by careless flying.
Easy to Use: I was able to fly it reasonably well on the first try. This is the first time I’ve used a drone, so I can’t compare it to others, but the control felt nice. I only wish it had a button to lock the altitude, but only costly drones seem to have this feature.
Price; I looked at several drones on amazon before buying this one. My budge was $50. I think this drone offers the most out of the low budge drones. It’s great for first timers who don’t want to risk losing an expense drone in a tree.
Camera; My main criteria for purchasing a drone was that it must have a camera. I think it adds a lot of fun for kids when they can see from the drone’s point of view. This drone offers that by having the drone create a Wi-Fi network that you can connect to from your phone. Using a free app, you can then get a live-view from the drone and it can record video and take screenshots from the live stream. I've attached video from some of our early flies, aka short lived flights. Looks like the video it takes is 640 x 480 in resolution with a frame rate of 15 fps.
Automatic Flips! It has a 3D mode that allows the drone to do flips in the air. I didn’t try using this for a while as it seemed like an advance feature. However, it turns out that you just hit the 3D mode button on the back of the control and a direction; the drone will automatically do a perfect flip for you. It’s impressive and it makes you look like an expert.
3D Printing Potential; If you know how to do some basic 3D model and own a 3D printer, you could easily 3D print replacement parts for this model. I have yet to try this, but as long as the weight distribution remain even it should work. You might have to experiment with different materials.
Cons:
No altitude lock function.
The Wi-Fi camera’s frames per second varies a lot. Mostly when something chaotic is happening like a flip or a sudden crash to the ground.
Camera would be better if it was facing forward more, rather than down. You might be able to adjust this manually.
Story Time:
I am ok at flying the drone, but not everyone in my family is. On one windy day, we ended up losing track of the drone in the sky as it went over the houses roof. To avoid it landing of the roof we set the controller to full throttle; max upward-ness. It went flying into the sky! It was a dot by the time we got around the house. To make matters worse, it was getting blown far away by the wind. We lost video from the phone app, and shortly after lost control of the drone. Interestingly, the phone still had the last frame it received from the drone stuck on the screen. It showed a car and a manhole cover as shown from above. Using this we found were the drone was flying as it went out of range. It was about 2 blocks away. In the same area, we found 3 wing guards on the ground, suggesting that it crashed though a tree nearby. We finally found the drone in a nearby field. It had flown about 3 blocks away. All things considered, it was a ton of fun being detectives looking for the drone. Pieces scattered on the ground, looking in the last seen area, the mysterious picture of a vehicle from above.
