Hubsan X4 FPV Brushless H501S Standard Edition

Advantages: This is my first quadcopter and for the first it is a great option. The flights were hooked and now we leave every weekend - until we swooped in. In GPS mode, it is incredibly stable and predictable. Forgives a lot of beginner mistakes. If you don't know what to do next, just let go of all the handles and the quadrocopter hovers in place. And, if the management drove him into a tailspin. Let go of the handles and it stabilized. In manual mode, it is quite playful and allows you to joke. "Return home" works great - on command or in case of loss of connection with the remote control. Sits down at the take-off site with an accuracy of a couple of meters. The main thing is to let him find satellites before take off. "Follow me" works a little worse - she chatters tangibly. He takes photos well. The powerful battery allows you to fly for a long time - up to 20 minutes. Compact and lightweight - there is always room in the car. And you can take it with you on a bike. Quite good range and altitude - about 300 meters. It allows you to increase the range using fairly affordable and easy-to-install means - the antennas are increased to 500..1800 meters. Inexpensive and affordable spare parts - there is absolutely everything. This is a very popular machine. On YouTube, there are a lot of impressions and instructions from all over the world. Powerful forum - all knowledge can be found for any problem.

Disadvantages: The video shoots mediocre. There is a jelly effect. And the picture chatters in accordance with the response of the quadrocopter to the control commands and just from the wind. Affects the lack of an active gimbal stabilizer. I tried to hang such a suspension https://youtu.be/LKZ8gk4jQdw But for this device it is difficult and normal flight with it does not work. My camera has no focus in the left zone. I suppose assembly-disassembly will cure, but for now it's too lazy to climb.

Comment: I bought it on Ali for divine money. There I immediately ordered three additional batteries and a set of 4AA batteries for the remote control. And also a set of antennas for increasing the range and spare propellers. You should always keep more screws in stock. Fortunately, they are cheap. If you suddenly fell out of sight - do not turn off the remote control! Take a photo of the screen and look for the departed device using the coordinates on the screen.

Advantages: The best quadcopter for beginners to fly "seriously". If you are planning to start flying something more serious than palm-sized quadrics, then this, in my opinion, is the best option. Excellent value for money and quality. There are all the most important - GPS, FPV (first person view, i.e. the screen on the remote control) and RTH (return home, automatic return home). And FOLLOW ME with HEADLESS MODE is also a bonus. A good enough camera. It really flies for 20 minutes, as it is written. Sometimes a little less (wind, frost), and sometimes, during calm flights in calm, a little more. Don't worry that the range is only 300 meters. If you have never flown such a distance before, this will be more than enough for you for now. For example, I haven't even reached 300 meters yet. In addition, 300 meters is only a guaranteed reception distance. In reality it is higher. And you can also buy the Pro remote control or order external antennas for the standard remote control in China, this significantly expands the radius. UPD: My distance record is 1000 meters in an open field. At the same time, both the picture and the control were preserved.

Disadvantages: Disadvantages: The disadvantage described below is a trait of all copies. I haven't encountered a defect or anything like that. Long study of the forums made me understand that all the owners of this model have ever come across this. So that's it. The weak point of this model is its compass. Few is said or written, but near massive metal objects, in the area of ​​magnetic and electric fields, it will most likely be poorly calibrated. For example, I have never been able to properly calibrate it near many parked cars (parking). Sometimes it happens that the compass is poorly calibrated and for no apparent reason at all. A poorly calibrated compass is very dangerous. In the best case, the quadric will poorly keep its point, and in the worst case, it may suddenly stop obeying and create all sorts of lewdness in the air, which may end in its crash or spontaneous flight in an unknown direction. The worst thing is when, when you turn on the return to home, the quad flies in an unknown direction. Therefore, if he began to create something incomprehensible - immediately turn off the GPS. The compass is only used in modes that require GPS, so without it everything will be OK. And then plant it to re-calibrate it. Also, after switching on, before flying far, check if it freezes well in place and test the most important function - returning home. If all is well, then there will be no problems and you can fly.

Comment: As long as you do not need to fly a couple of kilometers and shoot videos in super quality with stabilization and camera rotation (and such needs do not appear at all immediately), it will satisfy all your desires and even anticipate them in some way. I would not buy a more expensive device with a better camera and range at once. If you crash or lose it due to inexperience, then this money will be a pity for much less than as much as more serious drones cost. UPD I am updating the review after a long time. Compass problems have ceased to seem so scary, now I calibrate even in parking lots, with a phone in my pocket, and everything flies perfectly in 90% of cases. The main thing is to first check after takeoff that everything is OK. Once again I was convinced that this is the only excellent quadric in its price category. I would call him a "phantom killer". I still fly and shoot, although there was a desire for a better picture and a desire to rotate the camera.

Advantages: Enough information received via telemetry, FPV latency is acceptable, quite fast. Small, nothing superfluous, fits perfectly into a backpack. He sees a 32 GB microSD, which seems to me enough for him.

Disadvantages: The quality of the camera is poor, don't expect good photos or videos. The compass may be poorly calibrated and the quadcopter stops obeying the controls, turn off the GPS immediately! The microSD slot is a simple slot, there is an option to mix up the side.

Comment: I strongly advise you to buy a GPS tracker (or a cheap bluetooth version), write your phone number on board and run it only in an open area, preferably a large field, without trees and tall grass. Before flying off, I advise you to look at the behavior and try to return home, if inadequate actions appear, turn off the return home, GPS and calibrate it is advised to remove mobile phones, metal objects, not near high-voltage power lines. You can buy antennas and increase the transmission / reception distance. I advise you to immediately take the second battery.

We bought this model of a quadrocopter for a 10-year-old child. He immediately managed to control this device. Although we did not have such a toy before. The camera is of very good quality. The flight time is enough for 20 minutes. Decent model in terms of price-quality ratio. We recommend !!!

Advantages: Price. Ease of management. Flight time. Flight broadcast. For the first quadric, just right.

Disadvantages: Poor video stabilization. But this is nit-picking.

Comment: This is my first quadric. I bought five additional batteries for it, a backpack for carrying, a gyroscopic gimbal for an action camera, I flew enough on it (and crashed into trees and swam behind it) and now I'm ready for more expensive quadcopters.

Advantages: There is the ability to record video, take photos 1080p HD camera, GPS, follow me function, Headless mode, return home function.

Disadvantages: short flight time

Comment: Good thing for the price

Advantages: The best drone of the more or less serious with GPS for beginners. I would not recommend looking at drones without GPS at all. Very easy to operate with a good amateur camera.

Disadvantages: I haven't found it yet.

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Advantages: - relatively inexpensive copter; - flight time ~ 20 minutes; - the camera shoots quite well, apart from the jelly effect (which may not be); - the presence of GPS, which will help a person learn to fly without experience; - you can buy video glasses or a helmet; - medium size, does not make much noise.

Disadvantages: By and large, they are not available for such a price. Here are just the little things: - when recording photos and videos, files are created with the date 01-01-1970, although the time could be taken from the GPS; - some copies have backlash up to 4 engines. This results in jelly of varying degrees in the video; - no image stabilizer; - parts seem to be more expensive than DJI

Comment: I took a version with a standard remote control. Then I put external antennas on the remote control: https://goo.gl/Yw7VdW and bought some more https://goo.gl/WAuXsp (they are just lying there for now). I installed RHE firmware to increase the range - with it I flew up to 700 m, without it 300 meters, then FPV was lost. I advise you to buy an additional battery for the remote control and for the copter, for some reason HRB is recommended: https://goo.gl/W3NtK9 because battery charging lasts 2.5 hours! battery in the remote control will help to avoid the situation when you are in the field with charged batteries and the remote control is discharged. I myself chased after cheapness and bought a fake for original x3 batteries https://goo.gl/VccbfY - the copter flies with them for a maximum of 15 minutes, instead of 20 / The standard remote is good: it sits comfortably in the hands, there is a loop through which you can thread lace and hang around your neck. The screen is larger on the standard remote than on the pro version. There are certain subtleties that you will have to plunge into so as not to crash the copter, and so that it does not fly away from you in an unknown direction. A lot of offers with the sale of copters appeared on Avito, if you have no experience, it is better to look at new Avito and check it before buying.

Advantages: Everything is fine, all functions work

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