[laptop-man]

I fly FPV drones, I have one very similar to that size. running a 1s 300mah lihv I get about 3 to 5 minutes. 5 minutes damages the battery. but the tiny lihv never liv long enough anyways.

I'd expect it to get close to that time, but it has so much more plastic around it. but then again it's not transmitting video.

[slg]

That matches with the estimate in another comment chain[1]. That is low enough that listing it will likely be off-putting to many potential customers. It is why I think it is misleading to try to hide that number with a more opaque metric.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31195956

[prox]

So how does this drone stack against the competition? I know nothing about this field and I expected a price around a 100 mark. 250 sounds like a lot.

[mrfusion]

Can you recommend a good starter FPV drone?

[saidinesh5]

The standard advice is: Buy a transmitter and practise for like 5-10 hours in the simulator before pulling the trigger on a real one. Radiomaster Zorro, Jumper T-Pro, TBS Mambo are some good ones. Go directly for ExpressLRS/TBS Tracer long range protocols so you wont have to worry about your quad falling out of sky because of range issues.

If you want something that is more "ready to fly" (goggles, quadcopter, transmitter combo) You do have more choices these days:

1) On the more expensive end - You have DJI FPV combo [1]. Is supposedly very beginner friendly. https://store.dji.com/product/dji-fpv?vid=101601

2) On the low end - Something like this https://www.getfpv.com/emax-tinyhawk-ii-freestyle-micro-brus...

The problem with these ready to fly combos - especially on the low end (analog video) is that, you end up getting very toy like transmitter and goggles, that wont be of much use for you once you want to buy/build more quadcopters. So I highly recommend getting the transmitter and goggles separately.

[mrfusion]

Thanks! My preference would be to start really cheap just to see if I like the hobby and want to stick with it. I don’t think I’d mind buying a better transmitter later.

[ge96]

Commenting I like the bicopter design has advanced features like follow user mode and long flight time