Eachine E200 Pro - Awesome Unexpected Water Landing - Review

[@Baatory]

Important tip for seawater/saltwater: Remove battery asap. And then dunk it completely and flush it in freshwater before all the drying procedure. Otherwise salt will stay in and will attract moisture and corrosion. After drying relubricate all metal parts. Happy flying and diving to You all :)

[@ReneNieuwenhuis]

Most of the time it’s over in salt water. Corrosion wil do its work, faster if you start after a water damage. It may fly now… but for how long? The motherboard, GPS board with IMU and barometer, ESC board (Engine Speed Controller) etc and connectors will affect the electronics in the long run. Not always do.

[@jasonskinner9064]

That looks awesome,I love how much power it has in the rotors.the only thing is the flight time

[@rc-fannl7364]

They definitely upgraded the package with this cage it now comes in. It looked great over the water, but I think the SAR version would look even better there.

[@emptyqrider]

super video Steve 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 glad that everything went ok the end .. the multi angle shooting recording video added a fine excellent touch to the video .. very entertaining and full with infos .. rising my hat for you 👏🏻👏🏻

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Thank you!

[@lynsmith1096]

Good review again Steve. Very nice looking RC Helicopter.

[@Slithh]

Nice helicopter! Incredibly detailed and accurate. When you zoomed in on it while flying, it looked like the actual helicopter performing a sea rescue! Great flying and explaining everything. Thanks for sharing!

[@julianmclean3869]

Well done Captain !!; the footage of the Copter against the grey sky / clouds looked amazing !!(and very life like!!); glad to to see the Copter "rescued itself" after drying out !!!

[@petergunn1392]

Thanks Cap. My Eachine arrived undamaged. I am going to rebuild the YX in a BlackHawk fuselage. Should be cool! Thank you Cap!

[@bulufish8208]

U started lots of us in the hobby and have kept it enjoyable 😉.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Thanks 👍

[@RCCopterLove]

Again a very nice edited video! The different camera angles and the footage from your mini drone makes it a joy to watch. I am into manually controlled 3D helis, but for beginners this heli will be a great way to get into this wonderful hobby. Good that there was a happy ending to the unplanned water resistance test. It's really a NAVI heli!

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Thank you very much!

[@willrine8614]

Fun video ! 😃 That’s a great looking chopper. Flys as good as it looks too ! Great review Cap !! 😎

[@yakacm]

Anything electronic if it gets wet, remove the power as fast as possible, like take the battery out in this case. It's not that the water does the damage per se, it's more that if the circuit is powered on it can cause the electronics to short. Oh and let if dry naturally, don't use a hairdryer or put it on a radiator. Funnily enough, about 15 minutes before I sat down to watch this, I was flying my little Eashines spy heli indoor. The heli flew in to the curtains and fell in the cats water fountain thing. The worst thing about it was that I had used a bit of tape to keep the battery in place as it kept falling out, so it took me a minute or 2 to remove the battery. I've got it drying out in it's box, I'll try it again tomorrow, hopefully its OK.

[@jasonthompson6809]

That was almost a 600 dollar paper weight lol.........Great video Steve one of the huge reasons I really love your channel is you show your mishaps along with everything else!

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Thanks 👍

[@bobbylefebvre6298]

Good afternoon captain great helicopter nice details

[@yovotech]

Awesome, thank you !!!👍👍👍👍

[@clean1566]

Nice video Steve. Couldn't have scripted it better, with the water rescue of the water rescuer! Nicely detailed helicopter, and if it were 3 times bigger, I would consider it on looks alone. I fly a lot over salt water, and in my experience, a fresh water rinse, followed by a 91% isopropyl alcohol(71% works too) rinse and brush if you can, has saved me more than a few servo's, and flight control boards. That said, it was an enjoyable video. It looks pretty cool by itself where you can't scale it. I was going to say how flying this is like a camera drone, and not much skill is involved, but damn, those automatic features! My camera drone lost signal, and decided to do a get home dash, only not going high enough to clear the tree between me and the drone. Lol. Keep up the cool videos.

[@Raptor50aus]

Its a great heli love mine. Inverted flying was great and makes it easy to learn inverted hovering and flying.

[@leviconnelly79]

What an Amazing video!! I enjoyed all the angles you used including the ones from the Mini 4. Great job! thank you for creating and posting this.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Thank you so much!

[@flipmode00]

Great review, thank you !!!

[@yakacm]

It's not that I wouldn't spend that kind of money on an RC heli, it's more I wouldn't spend that kind of money on a heli this size and this type, like a scale model. If I was dropping that kind of dough it would be on a 'proper' RC heli, like one that could fly 3D and all that good stuff.

[@kabutze3312]

i wanna take a look into that hobby, could you reccomend some good copters?

[@RCCopterLove]

@@kabutze3312 If you want to learn to fly manually controlled and potentilly 3D capable helis I would recommend you the OMPHOBBY M2 EVO. You can fly it in the beginning with self level mode to get the orientations straight and with some experience switch of all help functions. It a great small but very capable heli!

[@ReneNieuwenhuis]

Especially not on a Eachine version.

[@sumner407]

You have really honed your craft. Your videos are getting so professional now. The editing and the graphic effects are A1. The content tells a story, so I assume you use a story board to build it or do you just kick it out your brain as you are editing? 👍👍😀

[@yakacm]

@@kabutze3312 Maybe start with something like Eachines E128 or Rc Era V128, it's basically the same thing just with a different name, they are less complicated to fly, after you have flown them a bit, go for something like a Blade Nano S3, which will be a bit tougher to fly. Have a look at some youtube videos, there's loads out there.

[@RcScaleTales]

Great video ! I’ve never had much success with Rc aircraft just got a dji mini 2.0se last year . Very tempted with this as it looks awesome and very scale and I think I would be capable of flying without disaster .

[@meaneme]

I wonder how much weight can it pick up?

[@bobbylefebvre6298]

Looks fun can't wait for next video

[@stepche2990]

First thing you should do after getting wet your electronic device is detach battery and dry it, not switching on ;)

[@michaelmyers2896]

I dunked my Mini SE drone in afresh water stream and it lives still. I just stick it in the sun afterwards and then when I got home stuck it in a bowl of rice overnight. I got very lucky I believe.

[@damearstill6184]

THANK YOU! I was wondering if it would still work

[@ronboFPV]

Thanks!

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Thank you!

[@gasquetmike8320]

DANG good thing it wasnt salt water! Fun video Steve.

[@cyberherbalist]

That was cool! Especially the water landing! I had thought it would be neat if the helo could come with Canadian Navy markings, only to discover that Canada's Navy doesn't own any aircraft at all, let alone helicopters! All aircraft that operate in support of RCN (even the ones operating from ships) are owned by the RCAF. How weird, is that? It is so strange to go to all the trouble of integrating the service branches into a unified force, and then to demarcate who runs which functions so severely. I'd say its counterintuitive. But given that Canada's prime minister is ... oh, nevermind.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Someone needs a Canadian military history lesson. RCAF is Canada, as in the Royal Canadian Air Force, which is the same designation as per Canada’s involvement of WWII. We do have the Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone as our heli on warships.

[@OHHP3712U]

Just ordered one through your Link! 3 Batts. No Cam. 😊

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Enjoy!

[@denverscott37]

I have an RC ERA C186 RC helicopter that I won off an online bidding site, cost me right around $40 out the door, if it went in the water like this one just did, I'd probably cry a little bit😂

[@DanpeterKramar]

Geez....for that $$$ you'd think it would deploy a raft to save itself in the event of an unplanned water landing;). Might be dicy in the rain though! Fun vid!

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Price is $500 US

[@henrytaaffe7058]

awsome review again Captain.

[@hikinganddrone]

Nice sharing my friend 👍👍👍

[@ronboFPV]

Looks real some times. Upside down looked strange? I should try my Quad upside down?

[@greenghopper]

Thanks for sharing. I was wondering, could you do a review on a fishing drone? I'm looking at those that take your line out when ocean fishing and releasing the line after it reaches a desired length from shore. If you have, please let me know. Thanks!

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

I have reviewed them already… they are all made by SWELLPRO

[@greenghopper]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Glad I asked. I'll check out your review.

[@123windyron]

Cool nice water landing Steve

[@dradden1556]

Coolest heli- submarine I've ever seen. Lol

[@CaptKenneth]

New subscriber here from Singapore. Love ur vids! ❤

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Thanks for subbing!

[@davidpiper3652]

Ooops! You dunked it in fresh water? It might be more problematic if it was sea water. Maybe try it again in a few weeks, corrosion can take a while to manifest itself. But, awesome chopper!

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Only saltwater causes corrosion. Thankfully Freshwater has no permanent effect on electronics.

[@davedave6565]

Whip the battery out asap.

[@egertkabilattekivi2496]

I love scale rc helis.❤❤❤

[@ColinRussianForce]

From an helicopter to a submarine, think it likes the sky better, if not more swimming lessons are required 😂👍

[@stikbotforzafilmsandmore]

Is there a hook or something on the bottom of the heli to carry things with it?

[@larsjungnell1969]

Lysande video, som vanligt händer det alltid något....................... 😊😊😊❤

[@bobbylefebvre6298]

Sorry about the crash

[@RodKrisBisdakMotovlog]

That's really cool sir

[@OHHP3712U]

Well it IS a Navy Choppa! 😅

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

It is indeed… it should enjoy getting a little wet 😉

[@OHHP3712U]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 At least it wasn’t Salt Water!

[@Raptor50aus]

Is that lake fresh water?

[@dradden1556]

Very cool 😎

[@GAZA2492]

Will start buy saying am a subscriber my friend And I do like it but its not the mini 4 pro Maybe when they have one with a built in camera then maybe my friend

[@TheTimPilot]

I really want one of these drone helicopters. How are the spare parts support for these?

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Actually good because there are a number of versions of this heli all using same or similar parts. The odds of crashing one is minimal, unless of course you let it land in water like me 😂

[@thewalkindude7716]

Do I need remote ID to legally fly this and if so, does it come with it already installed?

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

I think ONLY the USA uses REMOTE ID, so that means that since the rest of the world does not require it, then it is not in too many products. It is certainly not in this one.

[@thewalkindude7716]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Thank you!

[@nrnoble]

This minor mishap with it ending up in the water is why I remain paranoid about flying $1500 drone anywhere where it would be impossible to retrieve or find. If this happens to Steve with hundreds\thousands hours of experience, then the risk is much higher for the rest of US. I have already gone as far as attaching an Airtag to it.

[@jesterking1]

The navy doesn’t use black hawks… they are called sea hawks.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

This is a seahawks

[@OHHP3712U]

Can you Adjust Rates and Expo in the Stock Radio? Smooth it out?

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

I never bothered to try so don’t know

[@betofazzo]

Hi Captain, i have the same heli can i down the rotor rpm?. Thank you, good reviews.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Normally to increase or decrease the headspeed it needs to be programmed into the flight controller. You'd probably need some form of software to do it with this unit and/or a hobby grade transmitter.

[@betofazzo]

Thank you.

[@rainsquadfpv]

Why don't you ever do the version with a camera it would be cool to see it from that prospective

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

I did review the version with the camera and the camera is not very good. Go watch my review of the red/white coast guard version.

[@ZabDevin]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798I have the Coast Guard version. What can this version do differently? Are they the same?

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

@@ZabDevinit is a newer version (newer components). There is even a newer version then this one coming out called the E200S

[@ZabDevin]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 Thanks for replying. I enjoy watching your videos. Big fan. 👍🏾

[@ZabDevin]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 But the tech is the same. No new features. The motors are even the same size. I would still consider buying this because I was in the Navy and worked at a helicopter squadron with this bird. I’m even flew inside one of these once while on deployment.

[@dakmycat3688]

How does the camera view look?

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

watch my review of the COAST GUARD model and you'll see the camera in action

[@derrickbasenberg811]

Where's the camera

[@sheiladavis2304]

Great video Steve but has banggood gone crazy?? I remember a few years ago when you could get stuff from them for a good price. $900 for this thing is ceazyi was expecting it to be $400 maybe but $900??? They can't say it's the materials because you could get an aerial atom for $400 or less and it's gas 3 axis gimbal 4 brushless .motors gps everything. I know the radio looks ok but it's still on the cheap side. I don't want to sound cheap but come on. I don't like to feel ripped off either. Please pass my quotes to banggood if they ask what people thought in reviews.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

It is $500 US. It sells very well. You must be located someplace where the currency is not valued high against the US dollar.

[@shakenbake4585]

Greetings, I just attempted to buy the helo and I can't figure out how to use the discount code. I attempted to place it in the coupon section and it says it's invalid. Please advise! Thanks!!

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

The code is entered at the checkout screen. If it says “not valid for your country” then it unfortunately doesn’t work for your country.

[@phongbui3422]

what is difference between optical flow mode vs gps mode ? does it more stable on gps mode or the same with optical flow mode ? thank you !

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Optical flow means it uses a camera on the bottom of the heli to look at the ground a stabilize itself. This means it only works if you are 10 feet or lower to the ground. When you fly indoors you use optical flow. GPS mode means it connects to satellites in space so you use it outdoors at any altitude and it does not work indoors.

[@phongbui3422]

@@CAPTAINDRONE798 i see, but compare to the stablization on the optical flow mode, does gps mode is better ? i have yuxiang f06 model but the optical flow mode does not work very well on hovering the helicopter

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

@@phongbui3422Yes, GPS is ALWAYS better

[@phongbui3422]

thank you !

[@newamericatowguy3633]

Almost $600 USD and no camera. That's pathetic. 😅

[@tomtalker2000]

What the hell were you thinking even ATTEMPTING to fly a $600 piece of machinery over the water...?!!! Anyone in the hobby would tell you that's a HUGE no no. For the record folks BIG FIELDS NOT NEAR ANY WATER...(g)

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Makes for GREAT video! 😁

[@karthurjr]

More like $585 in the U.S.A.

[@mikeking2539]

So don't get it wet! 🙂😭😱😥 Or DON'T fly it near or over water!

[@Zhazhanx_]

Give me 😁

[@Brez1969]

You didn't mount a go pro on it, so it's a pass for me

[@jonellis5216]

Just far to expensive

[@Throttleup2024]

It's very nice, but too expensive. $1200 after shipping.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Holy Crap Batman, where do you live…. On the Moon? This is a $500 heli… how did you get the price up to $1200???

[@user-lv1zr5wg2c]

Dji mini 2 se

[@ether4238]

Bought one and got 2 flights before problems started - All I get now is yellow blinking light and no main motor/rotor control/power - can't lift off. Reset everything according to the instructions (Which are also very bad also) and still nothing. Also out of the box, the charger did not work (That was weeks ago and still waiting for a replacement). Looks great and fly's great, when it is working, which it no longer is. No support & poor quality - A very expensive mistake!!! DON"T buy IT!!!

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

You are one of the first to post about issues you are having with this heli. This means the majority of owners have no issues. Hopefully you figure out solutions for your issues.

[@kevinrobinson4169]

Another great review Steve.

[@CAPTAINDRONE798]

Thank you kindly