KFPLAN KF617 Obstacle Avoidance Drone Flight Test Review
This beginner's drone includes obstacle avoidance and an automatic optical flow hovering system that both help make it a very easy to fly drone. Find it here https://bit.ly/KF617-Drone
Pros
Folding drone with included carrying case for ease of portability.
Drone is available in either black or high visibility orange colors.
Weighs only 170 grams with included battery. This drone does not require registration in most countries.
Includes an obstacle avoidance system to help beginner pilots minimize crashing into objects when flying indoors.
Also includes a working optical flow system to provide automatic hovering capability. This makes the drone very easy to fly, effectively enabling hands off hovering.
Additional features include altitude hold, headless mode, and flip stunt capability.
Included camera is capable of taking 1080p resolution video at 20 frames per second. Photos are frame grabs of this video.
The camera also includes a mount with remote tilt capability. The camera's tilt range includes slightly upward to pointing full down if desired.
Real time in flight video can be viewed and recorded to your phone via the WiFi UAV app available on Google Play here https://bit.ly/WIFI-UAV and the Apple App Store here https://bit.ly/WIFIUAV.
The drone uses common 2.4Ghz WiFi which will work with most phones. The signal is strong with no frozen or dropped video frames noted during the demonstration flights.
Cons
Video JELLO, and plenty of it. Recommend balancing the drones propellers to minimize the jello. It's simple to do. Here's one guy demonstrating how • Parrot AR drone propeller balance, improve...
No SD card slot for recording video to a removable flash memory card. Although the WiFi video signal is strong from this drone, there is still potential for losing this signal. This includes flying out of range of the signal, or if flown in areas of high WiFi congestion (such as near apartment building).
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