So, it's an actual real product and not just pretty pictures. Nice plastic wrapping around what I suspect is just a standard quad. I like the props. They look like normal airplane props.
Here's a couple of videos:
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I hear you Danny, I'm about to embark on my first SFOC application in the near future here. Just getting insurance settled first...
Yeah but the bird that is planning on landing in your tree won't get your flight plan and could run into your quad.
hahahah! you are funny Ellison!
each time I test a beta code branch or fly one frame that I just build I call my buddy at Transport Canada and clear out the paperwork to authorize a 5 minute flight in my backyard at less than 50 feets high. :) sure! ;)
Man I really hope it doesn't get there ever.
Hey Dany, do you have an SFOC for flying that drone? Seems like you're doing it commercially. ;-)
I can confirm! I did "hard land" hehe crash it from about 30 feets... hit a wire up there... it went down on ice and concrete. Still fly fine, no cracks, nothing broken (including props!)
But after a while flying it it's still fun but I quickly miss the full power and features or an APM 2.5 powered copter!
It's really great to get new people in the hobby, price wise it includes everything you need, radio (with failsafe), charger, LiPo, LEDs, GPS, simple mode... You can turn ON mode advance modes when you connect it to a computer...
So this is a great looking, strudy and all in one copter to learn and get bitten by the bug!
Expect a lot more comments and video soon as "real" customers are getting their hands on then since last week. I've already seen a new gopro motorized / stability gimball with also external LiPo so you can carry more. video TX for FPV and more... the modding community is already hard at it! :)
I am sure some of the users will "graduate" to an APM at some point when they get the need to fly mission and having more functionality but for an entry grade copter it's full of potentials!
Dany
www.CanadaDrones.com
Regarding crashes, I just saw a video of some dude flying his and crashed in a tree 40' up and it fell to the ground, Not a scratch? Flashed right up and flew again apparently?
I really don't think a couple of LEDs on any side would interfere with shooting video unless it is dark out which pretty much writes off the GoPro this is designed to carry... I have a tendancy to agree with Joshua.. the international standard for navigation lights seem to be something these companies just don't get, which is just sad.. obviously from my profile picture I do get the navigational lights :)
Every boat and airplane on the planet uses the standard position light convention of green lights on the right and red on the left. Why is it so hard for the the aerial robot industry to figure this out? It would be like Google's self driving car using red headlights and yellow tail lights, of course they aren't going to do this! I know this is just a toy, but why not just follow the convention already established and give everyone else in the airspace some respect!
Don't get me started on the bizarre insistence of the RC hobby world to invent their own nonsensical acronym for a common voltage regulator.
I like this airframe though : )
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