I’ve been looking for a drone on a teacher’s budget that I would not have to sink a ton of money into for constant repairs and the high potential to break your drone. This will not be one of those money-sink drones.
I took my chances with this F194 model and am very glad I did. The GPS functionality/Geomagnetism sensors are quite great in that I had no problems connecting and utilizing the gps waves at the local park near downtown Chicago. The controls of both the Remote Controller and on the Drone’s Mobile App have symbols that make the use clear, and I only read about 5 minutes of the manual before able to send the drone in Follow Me mode / and set a home waypoint, sent it off to do its own thing, and had it go back to auto-land, with no issues.
My first two take-offs were a little rough, as it was my first time, what I will say is that the motor’s on this drone mean serious business. I ended up just using 50% of the motor’s power with my flights, I was not comfortable taking it too high up my first time. Even though I had the drone hit the grass and chop it up until I locked the drone down, twice, not a single scratch or dent came up on the back two wings. A very pleasing surprise, as I thought I was going to have to use a replacement blade or two on the first day.
I have yet to use it indoors, however, it flys in a really balanced manner, so with some of the features (show a peace sign with your fingers to the drone to snap a photo as an example) I can see it being fun in a big/safe enough indoor environment. I have posted some pictures so you can see the high quality of the image. There’s an SD mode as well as HD mode just in case you have memory size limitations.