Newbie - after buying advice

[craigwack]

Hi All,

I am a newbie, just signed up today to ask for some advice, been thinking about buying a drone for the last few weeks, been on google look at sites and review and browsing youtube for video on the drones I have narrow it down to.

I really like the idea of getting out with the missus and family to view some places/walks and taking the drone along with me and stopping say at a top of a hill climb and send the drone up to get some video of a day out.

I have about £150ish to spend and I have narrow it down to the following drones I like the reviews I have read, but is it worth me spending £80 to £150 on these 2mp to 720hd drones just to start me off or would I be upgrading in now time at all?

starting range
JXD 510
Hubsan X4 H107D

or is it worth blowing the budget and putting more toward it and get a Hubsan H501S ?

your help and advice would be great, any input you can give me would be great?

many thanks
Craig

 

[QuadKid]

Welcome Craigwack,

You got the right idea, I started with a pancake drone otherwise known as WLtoys V323,
https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&k...qmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_7x7v5wj8kq_e

it has a small 2G camera, get used to flying one, the more inexpensive quads are harder to fly but hone your hand eye co-ordination (you will crash many times & don't want to break a big dollar quad )
then step up to something like the Kinco W88 Explorer Quad w WiFi, it has more weight and power with a 2 Mega Pixel Camera
( around $130 US ) but is aerodynamically designed like the upper end DJI Phantoms, but is still fly by the seat of your pants fun, remember you will need at least 8 extra batteries to get around an hour fly time as the only get 6-10 minutes (depending on the conditions).
Then once you have considerable flight time under you belt comes the BOAT factor ( Bust out another Thousand !) and look at the upper end consumer drones like the DJI's, Yuneek, Parrot, ect...

 

[Diven]

How about this Wingsland S6 drone, it is very small, you can put it on your pocket. And it is very cheap , just need about £280.
Detailed info: http://www.genstattu.com/wingsland-s6.html

 

[RENOV8R]

So my opinion on the Wingsland is that it appears to be very good quality and would be a nice addition if you already had a few quads and wanted a little selfie drone that took good quality video. But if you are just getting into flying, not recommended as it is just controlled by an I-phone so you aren't going to get any experience of actually learning how to fly and learning the coordination of using a transmitter

 

[DuaneM]

I just started out with a WLtoys V686G just about a month ago and I'm super happy I went cheap first to learn how to fly a multirotor.