How many people went straight to DJI instead of smaller drones first?

[MrTommy]

Tommy- the Blade 180 QX HD is a fun, yet strong and sturdy drone to fly! As I mentioned before, I bought one after enjoying it's little brother- the Nano QX... My only complaint on the 180 QX HD is the landing skids. The leg snaps very easily on anything harder than a soft landing! I've just resorted to removing them and rigging the eFlite camera on without the landing gear...


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You are spot on about the landing gear. I broke my original gear off in the early stages of learning to fly. Went back to hobby shop and bought two more sets - ha. Then I repaired the broken set with Crazy Glue and re-attached. Works great. My only real complaint is all the noise that is recorded when taking video. You actually have to FLY this quad!

 

[Jfasig]

Mjx 600 got up in the clouds with no wind that I thought,1.5 miles later,me searching I get a phone call your drone was found in the middle of the road,they saw my # and reward picked it up .Bought a standard soon afterwards.Love that RTH!!!

 

[JimMills]

I too used to fly the round d roundys in the 50's. Last year got. Syma 5, then a Syma 8 I lost in a tree somewhere and decided to get the best I could afford. Phantom Advanced

 

[cnnx]

I have a blade nano qx quad
.. should I buy something bigger before I buy a p3a dji or go right to it?

 

[glord727]

I took flying lessons after leaving the military in the early 80's. Then got into RC helicopters in the early 90's. Got into quad copters about 5 years ago. Got the P3P in January of this year.

As with anything experience will come in handy if needed.

 

[Traveler]

Went from all fixed wing to DJI P3P, never looked back.


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[cj7jeep57]

Mine was a CX-10W, loved it ,did great flips, and the lights, real cool looking! Then I went to a phantom 4 !

 

[JamesG2571]

Syma x8w then P3s then P3a!! Still have my Syma as a RC toy and it's great fun


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[mfr1340]

I ordered a small one to practice on but the Phantom Advance arrived first. But I had watched so many tube videos I felt OK to go right to the Phantom. I have a park a 1/2 block away with a big fenced in field. I had three battery's so to do the break-in right, first 10 flights (each battery) were 45% batt. usage to do a slow break-in. Just take it slow and watch a lot of the set-up video's and Remember it's not a toy.

 

[SinMaster21]

I flew R/C planes and helicopters for years. I went straight to the p3p, no regrets.


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[alokbhargava]

I had many other drones before I bought DJI make. My first drone was from Parrot.

 

[varangian]

Started with a bunch of manually controlled drones, no alt hold, auto return or any similar feature, crashed some but learned the basics. Then an AR 2.0, in hindsight I should have went with the Phantom FC40 instead, and I did after several months. Lost the FC40 and replaced it with another, then the P3P.

 

[cheddarman]

Straight to a P3A - which my son had no further use for!

 

[3rdof5]

I had 2 different "toy" quads first. Neither had any auto positioning abilities meaning they were always in complete manual mode and being much smaller than a Phantom they were very unstable and difficult to fly outdoors if there was any light breeze at all. I had never even heard of DJI when my brother in law pulled out his P3P and flew it for me. I was sooo impressed I immediately bought a P3P for myself and still fly it regularly

 

[sturgissteele]

Started with an older/cheaper drone. It did have GPS and could record video, but could turn off the GPS to practice flying manually. Only two crashes; however, it didn't survive the second time. Thus, enter the P3P.