Cute little beginners toy. FPV? Not really ...

Equal first, FPV flying is so not really possible. For this, the latency is too high. Control via Android mobile phone goes even outdoors and is very difficult, I have to test but still continue. The app for copter are in the Play Store several times, the original is not the way of Revell but Cheerson. The copter is in the original Cheerson CX-30W (W = Wifi, it also exists as a CX-30S, S = FPV does not have Wifi but 2.4 GHz band). The S version can not be controlled via mobile phone, on the remote control is located directly a monitor, the refresh rate is so much higher than with Wifi and apparently works FPV thus a few meters further than with the wifi version. A good comparison video is available on Youtube (search for "Cheerson CX-30W and CX-30S unboxing and quick testing" with the quotes, links you can not post here yes). In my case with a Samsung Galaxy S5 latency is actually much lower than in the video comparing the two models on Youtube. Maybe so that the app has been improved or it is very dependent on the mobile phone used. Mti iPhone will probably work pretty well anywhere I could read in a forum. The camera from the S model has the way a slot for a microSD card, so you can continuously aufzeichen and needed to not have a mobile phone, the W-model has not. The camera is clipped at the copter and can therefore be completely dismantled. Then you have a Cheerson CX-30 ;-).

The app can be found in the Play Store if you are looking for CX_WiFiUFO, provider "Steve Chan". Under this supplier there are many versions of the software, also by Revell. With the version numbers of the app I'm not entirely clear, perhaps just go Veröffentlichkeitsdaum and install the latest. The version number information is not really comprehensible. A video that explains quite well the software can be found on Youtube if you search for "Cheerson CX-30W 6-Axis Gyro Mini RC quadricopter WiFi with Camera Control by iPhone" (with quotes). Later in the video we see the S version with display. With the app you can not only record video but also make individual photos, but this has so far led me to only 0 byte jpegs, so no photos ;-(.

Since the UAV is small and light it is quite rough in the air reacts ud course on wind outdoors extreme. Trimming is annoying because the buttons are for achieving partly bad. The manual is, as so often in China firecrackers well but you cope.

The battery compartment is really fiddly, has also already written someone in his review, an on / off switch, there is not, and you will always fly empty the battery anyway in one go, as it holds only 5 minutes. I have yet to buy three more batteries with 750mAh, otherwise it makes no fun. One can certainly, if one dispenses with the camera, for example, turn pin down with rubbers a larger battery, but there are even 1100mAh instead of the supplied 700mAh, which should still fit within the tray, which I've not yet ordered. And without a camera can then be securely mounted even 1300mAh and more. The camera weighs only 10g. That should suit and make him a little quieter.

Respect. Walkera plug the battery I have in Kopterforum (dot) de a thread found in the one member writes that the plug connection is sometimes very hot. I could not watch with me. If so, then this points to problems or high contact transition resistances in the plug connection. This affects then the control considerably from. If the problem you should replace the plug to pull. JST plugs and sockets, so that this problem does and the copter reacts better and flying longer, since losses in the connector are converted into heat.

Respect. the propeller is I have noticed something. After a hard landing on the floor with the propellers forward, I realized that one of the propellers turned serious. You notice when you manually turn either turns or they anschnipst or the state gives a brief burst of gas and stop very quickly when one or more propellers leakage. Then the propeller is simply too heavily pushed on the shaft and rub on the motor housing. You just have to easily lift the propeller then, so that it turns freely again. When flying it shows a too pressed-propeller significantly, you can not Trimming the.

I see the CX-30W rather than study and gimmick for the child in the man as a real FPV-copter. Since then you have but much deeper into their pockets, if you will have the serious. Perhaps the CX-30S would be the better option. Currently I'm still practicing flying and fly without therefore mounted on the FB mobile phone and camera so purely with remote control. To learn such a little uneasy part is not necessarily appropriate, but the financial commitment is of course safe. You still need a lot of patience. Trimming is necessary every time again and so far it has not succeeded to really keep him quiet without constant intervention on the FB in limbo.

If you want to fly with Fernbedineung and let run with the mobile phone only for recording, the switch-on is important. Always the copter. If you want to fly with remote control and only use mobile phones to record, then after the copter FB switch and after Connection (2x beep) briefly give some gas, then after that connect the mobile phone via Wifi. Then the mobile phone only display and Aufzeichnugnsmaschine. Until you have done all the battery is already weakened ;-).

Since this is my first flying platforms I can not really compare and other equally expensive Quadkoptern, I have to admit honestly ;-). I just have a normal helicopter older provenience (Ikarus Piccolo), which you can not really compare. For boarding the CX-30W is certainly ok. Today I would probably refrain from FPV near the price and would have rather something gerößeren the same price taken a (100 EUR) without camera.

If you then decide yes it goes on with the hobby, then you can upgrade. (It is interesting, I think from 250 - 350 EUR pure copter without FB and accessories) either a higher quality copter or a small HD cam for first test with video recording. Upon occasion, what a longer interested. FPV in decent quality goes according to my research very quickly alone for Cam and display / glasses and good antennas in the range of a few hundred euros.

Conclusion
I do not regret the purchase date, of FPV I would have promised but more. This can be forgotten in this price region. In this respect, more like a gimmick but no serious feature this copter. Considered as pure Kopter he lines up next to some other models and has probably the same advantages and disadvantages of these mini-copter. As Einstegergerät certainly ok, but it would certainly have 20 - 30 can save EUR if you had dispensed with FPV.