New too Quads, which too choose?

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Rikard

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Hello everyone, hope some nice souls out there can help me decide on what Quadrocopter too buy.
I am pretty new too this hobby and have decided to buy an RTF too start with, what i need help with is deciding which one to go with. This is a djungle for a new guy, so many different quads and so many different companies that makes them.

I have chosen a few that ot stuck in my mind as i strolled around in this dense djungle.

http://www.dji.com/product/phantom-3#page1

Its obviously the market leader (as i understood) with their Phantom 3 Professional, have not heard much bad about this one except it has an integrated camera which is a personal con for me. other than that i have heard about some flyaways which concern me a little.

http://3drobotics.com/solo-drone/

Then its the "smart" drone, it does not have an integrated camera which is a pro for me, but it does cost a little more than the phantom 3, i have heard it has some gps signal problems which makes it crash more often than the phantom. From what i have heard and seen its recording is a little more twitching and shaky than the Phantoms, it also seems too have a shorter ramge when it comes too sending video too your tablet/phone.

http://www.hubsan.com/productinfo_14.html

Then its the Hubsan x4 pro, with a lot better flight time than both of the above but with a camera that doesnt seem too be as good as the ones above.

Then i have seen loads of others that hasnt really sticked with me such as Walkera, Yuneec and so on. Do you have any tips on which of these (or any whatsoever) that i should get?

Would be really glad too get some decent response!
With kind regards Rikard!
 
If you are very new to flying quads, I would suggest picking up an inexpensive one to start. It is very likely that you will crash, and it hurts a lot less when you only have approximately $50 invested in it versus several hundred.

The Syma X5C is a popular choice, so is the Hubsan H107D X4. Even one of the minis you fly around in your house would help to minimize crashes when you do jump into one of the ones you listed.

Currently I am flying the XK Alien X250, and enjoying it. - http://www.geekbuying.com/item/XK-A...NTY3JO91dwIIyVMKz7yCFD0f_CSjjg4_vFhoCrQvw_wcB
 
Thanks for your response Twainhearts, i currently am flying and learning too fly the Hubsan H107D X4, i bought one for exactly that purpose, too learn too fly!
Do you have any experince with any of the ones that i listed? Or have heard any about them?
 
I have heard of the Phantom 3 and 3DR Solo, but have no experience with them myself. I did not know about the Husband X4 Pro until your posting, but Husband seems to have a good reputation. My personal plan is to fly the one I have until the motors die (brushed motors on the x250), then to build a 250 or 350 sized quadcopter.
 
Hi mate Go for the Phantom it will fly well out of the Box ,my wife wanted a quad she does not fly so I got the Phantom and she was flying in about 3 mins flat is easy the fail safes are really good too, as for fly aways , most are pilot error if you dont get full GPS lock you can only fly in manual mode , I have only not got GPS lock once and I moved the Phamton 3 feet and got full GPS lock it must have 7 plus sats for full GPS lock now all the systems will work 100% , Yes its the best all the other have Cloned it because its so good ,watch this video she has never flown anything till now
this is how well she flies now
 
Okay, thats pleasing too hear, thanks so much for your response i will most likely get a phantom!!

Thanks a lot holtneil!!
 
Hi your love it check this out while your waiting for it to come its the Phantom 1 but the NazaM FCB is the shame in all the Phantoms so theLED lights will be in the arms of the new one but still mean the same
 
he helped me out also. I started with a hundred dollar quad and wanted something better.
Neil pointed me to DJI. I bought the best one at the time, last March. I bought the Phantom 2 Vision Plus.
One month later DJI released the Phantom 3! haha story of my life.
But I still love my P2V+. I have done several mods to it, which to me is half the fun.
And CL and HL and fail safe really work. Just don't try manual mode like I did. I crashed in about 5 seconds. haha
 
The Phantom in manual mode will flip ,DJI need to write in to the software a way to reduce the stick throws , I think they forgot people buy them as they are easy to fly till they hit manual mode
 
As others have said on this thread, I would look at investing in one that is fairly cheap. There is no point in splashing the cash on an expensive quad only to lose it in the sea when I was first starting out! I have always got my quads from RED5 and never had a problem, just had a look on their site and they still have a decent enough selection http://www.red5.co.uk/remote-control-toys/quadcopters.aspx
 
Haha i see, i wont try the manual mode!! thanks for that! and ye I got myself one of the smaller ones, learning too fly it now!! Thanks for all the tips you guys!!!
 
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