RC Drone for kids, Hand Operated Mini Drone Flying Toy Gesture Control for Adults, 2.4G Gravity Sensor 360° Flips, Altitude Hold, LED Light, Flight Time 16 Mins

My first ever Drone experience. My brother-in-Law had a simpler fun hand-motion-controlled ‘ball’-type drone at Christmas that flew around effectively avoiding obstacles. Hoping this would be the next-step-up, I chose this drone from good reviews. Immediately on arrival I had problems: It was advertised coming with “2 batteries and 4 spare rotors” – but only had one battery and 2 spare rotors. The ‘Instruction Manual’ was only a tiny 4-page leaflet, pitifully inadequate, full of ‘Chinese English’, so, much of your learning will be trial-and-error. After charging (‘watch’ controller 30mins; Drone battery 60mins) I started trying to play with the drone. This was also disappointing. First for simplicity I just used the yellow ‘water droplet’ controller: Put Drone on the ground, press its button for 1sec to power up, all its same-colour LED’s (so how can you tell which is the front?) flash fast then slowly. Then press the Water Droplet’s button once: the drone takes off vertically but then surprisingly flies around the room at random. Sometimes it would carefully avoid objects and change direction but others it would just smack straight into a wall or TV screen. Each time it would ‘die’, admittedly trying to lower itself onto the floor gently, but usually with no empty floor below it to do so. It would lie there flashing its LED’s (helping you find it?). Also it often went up and hit and sucked itself to the ceiling, leaving you no choice than power it off with the water droplet. (I later read it had no Obstacle Avoidance until finger button pressed 3 times). 8mins later the Water Droplet Controller seemed to stop working, having no more effect starting or stopping the Drone. Was it the drone battery dead already (though its LED’s were still lit), or, the Droplet controller? – which has no facility for recharging or even opening it – it presumably contains a battery, but with no access, it must be ‘disposable’ – worrying for its future life. So I tried the weird ‘Gravity Sensor’ ‘Watch’ controller but it had no effect. The Water Droplet controller then worked once, but then the drone died, with dimmed LED lights. The dubious ‘fun’ was over for another hour of recharging – and with no 2nd battery to switch to… I could not find any charging instructions. The Drone battery has no light indication of its charging level or even if it is – only its USB plug has a red LED inside which goes off when plugged into (Laptop) power source – does that mean it’s charging? Who knows! One hour later I tried again. Maybe it’s me, but I just couldn’t figure it out. It would not simply hover allowing you any time to start to learn to manoeuvre it yourself. Struggling with the inadequate instructions, and despite the ‘pressing finger button 3 times to activate Obstruction Avoidance', the drone continued to fly around and at random speeds and smash into things. It trimmed the wife’s prized poinsettia (instead of avoiding it), and before it broke all its rotors, I gave up. Draw your own conclusions... This drone is not for me.--- Additional: Contacted Seller who said they have changed the "batch" to now only have 1 battery and only 2 spare rotors, but neglected to change the package/advertising. Yeah thanks for telling us. More False Advertising. They did NOT offer to send the parts that were missing; only offered $5 refund.

The drone flew great. Once. The battery only took one charge and that was it. It would not charge again. The battery in the teardrop was also dead on arrival. I Had to order new batteries and a decent charger. Instructions were painfully vague. The new batteries arrive next week so hopefully I can fly again.

This drone is made from cheap plastic, similar to a model that you build. As is the case with drones, it tends to fly into walls and furniture as you learn to control it. This drone lasted less than half an hour before it hit a wall and smashed a plastic blade guard and severed the blade attachment. We bought this drone for my adult son with Cerebral Palsy who only has one working hand. We were able to modify the hand control placement so that he could almost fly it one handed, but then it broke.

Easy fun

It's just a fun quadcopter to fly around with and controller strapped to my hand.

One propeller was broken

Its a cool concept and my 10 year old son loves it

It kind of worked for an afternoon. One crash broke a propeller and we could never get back into the air after putting on the replacement blade.