APEX VR70 FPV Drone Kit, First-Person View Drone for Beginners, Brushed Racing Drone with FPV Goggles, Super-Wide 120° FPV, Low-Latency 5.8G Transmission, Drop-resistant, Suitable for Novice Practice

This Drone is awesome, you will not be disappointed! Very easy to control and maneuver around corners, as well as up and down stairs. The video quality is great, and it comes with multiple battery packs. We’re impressed!

5 flights after all 3 batteries. Literally couldn’t be happier. Kicks butt in windy conditions. You can keep the drone and pair it with better goggles and controllers later. Flys about 13 mph on lowest speed setting and is very sturdy. Totally skipped all the sims and just ran with it. And crashed it doing very detailed maneuvers. Be sure after every crash and flight to lightly push the props back down on the motors or you’ll constantly be adjusting the trim wondering why you need to.

Right out of the box, the charger did not work. Then, after less than 10 minutes of flight, the headset just shows static and will not reconnect. I tried charging the headset thinking maybe the battery was low, but the headset also does not charge. Just for fun, I tried the controller to see if it would charge. Guess what? Big fat no on that too. So, basically, nothing charges. When it worked for less than 10 minutes, it was pretty cool.

IMHO this is a remarkably good kit for the money. It’s easy to get started and the drone handles beginner mistakes very well; I’ve crashed it pretty hard a couple times and the only visible damage is a tiny crack near the power button. It can almost always catch itself if you hit a tree. It somehow compensates for darkness, not sure if it’s the camera doing that or the headset but you can fly in the evening and still get pretty good visibility. If you do happen to crash somewhere after dark the illuminated body makes it easy to find. There are a few things that could use improvement: The strap on the headset was painfully tight no matter how I adjusted it, I think it must’ve been designed for small children. I ended up replacing it with a custom-made strap. The charge in the batteries doesn’t last long at 400mAh, which wouldn’t be a problem except that it’s really hard to find replacements. The only replacement batteries I’ve found so far have even less capacity than the originals. Frequent charge/heavy drain cycles are really rough on any battery so being able to find replacements is very important. One of the propellers kept popping off when I first started using the drone and I eventually lost it in the grass somewhere. Fortunately the kit comes with replacements and once I put on the replacement propeller it hasn’t popped off since. It’s also pretty easy to find replacement propellers, I have a pack of Gemfan propellers just in case one of the original propellers ends up chewing on a tree branch or something but haven’t had to use any yet. Overall though I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a better kit for the price.

Not working with a simulator. Whatever dongle they used to connect to simulator can't be purchased anywhere. But the regular play was fine. I expected the controller to work with dongle.