Flite Test - AR DRONE 2 - REVIEW

[@RCllamadude]

i was about to watch yogscast, but then i saw a thing on my homepage saying "flitetest uploaded" and i immediately clicked on it... i love you guys =3

[@madjedi2235]

Amazing how far drones have come, I own this and the mavic mini and the two couldn’t be more different. I guess that’s what 7 years does tho.

[@KJ4CTZ]

Love to see a video of all the out-takes of your episodes. You guys rock, but I bet the out-takes are halarious!

[@timrs2001]

Thanks guys. I just got mine last night and I'm watching some vids before I dive in.

[@theimacman]

I wonder who will invent the first Collective-Pitch Quadcopter?? ;)

[@Raptor50aus]

You can buy or simply solder up an XT60 to mini tamiya plug to use the Hobby King 1300 mah lipos. Make the adapter as short as possible so it fits under the hull space

[@capello1986]

Chad and gang! Really loved this episode a lot, think the quality just stepped up a gear! really like the bit at the end :-)

[@chuco425]

Wow its really stable. With variable pitch props you cam fly multi-rotors upside down.

[@Raptor50aus]

I'm using a wifi repeater and getting way over 100 meter range some people are getting over 600 meter range using a wifi booster on the drone too use the 60 beat game controller with the Drone Ace app and you can fly it like an RC quad works great. also buy some bearings for the prop shafts as they have brass bushes stock and get sloppy quickly. Hobby King have the 3S 1300mah lipo for about $10 and fits in the battery slot.

[@faishamanja6968]

What a valuable historical videos❤

[@teensrygley]

For the complete control " he man mode" did you try turning around the I pad using the iPad gyro to turn it?

[@FrostbiteUK]

Great review guys, I've not wanted one of these before.....until now!

[@isiadhitumup]

you forgot to mention that the parrot 2.0 drone also works with Android and also has a camera on the bottom of the Drone, and it has the sensor on the bottom of the drone to detect objects underneath it and avoid hitting them

[@dc2miggy]

Chris Wistey what app do i down load to use on an android phone???

[@theimacman]

Are you using bluetooth audio?

[@nickfury1279]

What Parrot should do when they're developing the next version of the AR Drone is to incorporate a feature that allows the AR Drone to connect to existing Wi-Fi hotspots instead of having to make its own all the time. On my college campus, thanks to signal replicators, the same Wi-Fi signal is available everywhere on campus (which is huge, by the way). If Parrot incorporated this feature into the next AR Drone, you'd be able to fly it around my campus without a signal loss.

[@dieselml]

First person view goggles are $250 alone, you figure $300 for this entire package with all the tech inside the parrot is a pretty sweet deal!! Add a wifi repeater and your good to go.

[@MrMulteh]

great bit of kit, i have the 1.0 but the video camera could really do with being upgraded as it jitters alot.

[@walruspictures]

Hey is there a vertical camera on the 2.0? If so can you record video to get like a birds eye view of things?

[@jwrx7tt01]

Yeah i own one. The problem is that when people hear the word 'wifi' they think 'internet, router' etc. Which seems to turn people away from the product. Wifi is just a kind of radio wave that allows electronic devices to communicate with each other. Yes the drone creates a wifi when you turn it on. So your phone sends instructions wirelessly to the drone and the drone streams video wirelessly to your phone. All you need to fly is a phone/tablet with working wifi, I hope i answered ur questions.

[@kairus1]

Great RC, do you guys know whats the best resolution on the video recorder in the parrot?

[@TioDave]

Curtis Youngblood is working on a cp quad. It looks pretty impressive. You should do a review on it.

[@tamz2]

great piece of kit.....Aerotech please keep giving Chad loads of gear to review these guys do it the best,......keep flying

[@6toeNL]

During the introduction of the settings you have the option to give a max altitude. How does the drone calculates the height? Thanks!

[@jimz508]

Hi thanks for the review. One of the things I notice on my AR 2.0 is when it's on the ground the focus is very sharp, when airborne the vibration seems to soften the focus a little. I am kind of new to RC in general. I was wondering if you thought some mods to the shock mounting or prop tuning would help? Are you planning to experiment at all with the AR?

[@Tomdomification]

@infiltrator7777 No, the drone creates it own network which you can connect to. This gives you a safe range of about 50 metres.

[@TheDirtyduck77]

Scott(s), I have the 2.0 and tried your battery tip. With 2200mah, it only recognizes 1/3 of the battery. With 1300mah, only half. What gives? I charged them completely and my tester reads 3.8 per cell, but still no joy. Any ideas? Thanks for all the great videos and keep up the awesome job.

[@spaceoftheface7176]

Cool quad for getting a birds eye view or for surveillance for air-soft and stuff.

[@SilentAssassin333]

A shout out to those camera guys for shooting it so well. :)

[@MrShadowpanther3]

You can buy an RC interface for the Drone that lets you fly it with your Spektrum radio. If you like flying with sticks and like the range of your radio, that is the way to go. It is essentially plug and play. It plugs into the port on the bottom of the drone. A few trim settings later (detailed on websites) and you are flying like you are used to flying.

[@johanntheglacier]

yes its about 10 to 15 min at fully charge

[@billholb1974]

I like that you guys are in a little club house at a playground, to funny. .and the guy holding the mic has a funny grin. .lmao

[@nwardner301]

This review was hilarious and informative. Thanks, guys!

[@Alex_Morrison]

I have one of these they are AMAZING although a little on the pricy side but if you are thinking of buying one DO IT!

[@wilsonvariety]

It is possible to stream to more than one device at the same time? I meam, control it using one iphone and stream the video to another iphone.

[@nickfury1279]

What they would need is a dual purpose Wi-Fi antenna, the same type of antenna that allows many smartphones to surf the Internet using Wi-Fi, and also alternatively to create their own personal Wi-Fi hotspots while they connect to the Internet using their 3G/4G antennas.

[@Mrpaulyp99]

if you are in area that doesnt have phone service ie: zion nstional park will you still be able to get this to work?

[@Raptor50aus]

The latest free flight lets you do actual "flips" forward or backward

[@superbass918]

What is the view like on a iPod. Other than smaller Is it choppier? And about how far did it fly out?

[@petergregorian]

@filetest can you descend and rise in a vertical direction with this?

[@mrdlg2u]

Its got "home lock"? push forward, it goes away... pull back, it comes home. Nice idea if it could get farther away. DJI Naza has the same feature. Later, Gundy

[@chorianopoulos2002]

I wonder if a 2.4ghz cloverleaf antenna would increase the wifi range on the Parrot.

[@nickfury1279]

Now why hasn't Parrot thought of that already? Such a modification would increase the control range of the drone, and you'd even be able to launch, fly and recover it, all beyond line of sight if you wanted to.

[@xitman327]

THIS THING IS CRAZY OMG this thing is my dream!! i MUST buy it!!

[@beaker668]

What's that nitro powered plane in the background?

[@JaredReabow]

There is a program for Pc which allows you to control the AR drone from your PC, which means you can get better range with a dedicated WIFI transmitter, but you can also use a Controller, including RC simulator controllers. Just connect to your drone via wifi with your PC whilst running the program, your pc will take primary control and will display the camera imput, you can also connect your ipad to the AR drone as a "buddy box" i will post a video responce

[@Darksagan]

Great video, totally helped me make up my mind on this drone.

[@CrackerMcGillicuddy]

My AR Drone, "1.0" lasted about 1.0 month before the circuit board went haywire and it became an AR Drone paperweight.

[@theimacman]

8:23 - Happy Landing Dance!

[@ParrotARDrone2]

Nice review guys!!! :)

[@RCllamadude]

hmm, does it still count if the motors are set up on servos on a switch so they rotate 90 degrees to one side so it will knife edge? if so, then CHALLENGE ACCEPT

[@clintyoung8255]

I'm glad I subscribed to you guys, y'all are funny and make helpful videos...lol

[@Raptor50aus]

Hey guys use the "Fling Controllers" to get a much better tactile feedback on the ipad or iphone.

[@fpvFlyingMonkey]

I fly my quad inverted! Works fine, but the flight time is quite a bit shorter...

[@zeppelin4646]

you can get a propper transmitter for the parrot ar drone you should try getting one of those and get bixler to fly it

[@FDV12]

"Unless it's a really misleading name'", That's what I picked up from it..... You guys kill me.

[@rsimpkins2g]

How far could your take it before it was out of range

[@EnricoLorenzoni599]

looks very improved, cool!

[@markhall748]

Hey fellas. I don't own a drone yet but I'm very interested. I've been looking and comparing the specs, battery life mainly. 12 to 21 minutes doesn't seem very long to be out flying. Any word on other batteries coming soon to induce flying time?

[@mywholelife331]

Mark Hall for drone battery's to last for 20+ minutes is actually really good

[@essentiallifter]

Mark Hall 20 minutes is an excellent flight time

[@eveguo2212]

I love the boom mic guy, just standing there in the video...

[@IbnAir23]

Help?? Could you give me a good sugestion on an affordable quality video camera for FPV flying. Im using 5.8g video tx and rx with my dx6i. ???

[@Josh-so6ee]

Can you please do the Parrot Rolling Spider Drone?

[@dhkenny2001]

u can also go on ebay and pick up trans for it with the controller

[@2000xlt]

they are on Ebay and Dronetuner Search around, i am sure there are other options,,,

[@sampb0906]

Can you adjust the camera so that it's facing down more or does it have to be straight??

[@Andrews0187]

It already has a camera that is facing down. It has 2 Cameras.

[@briskstate9673]

The frontal camera is decent while the bottom camera is alot worse

[@ninjabeast139]

happy boom mic. operator, happy to be noticed

[@frankreynoldsnh4798]

What's the height before you lose it forever

[@Migueldeservantes]

Sweet work boys! Hope the best for Yall !

[@infiltrator7777]

I don't understand. What's the WiFi for? In other words, my indoor Wifi needs to have a strong enough signal to have this outside and fly away from the iPad? Seems pointless if that's how it works.

[@BraedonBriscoe]

Can you flip it while moving?

[@vallentinlovstromwadell8950]

Isn`t there a second camera facing straight down too?

[@Bernardo3477]

yes, there is

[@briskstate9673]

Yes there is but the bottom camera is a complete potato, the front camera is decent

[@vallentinlovstromwadell8950]

ShadowBlaze Czerwien yeah, but it´s more made for perfect landings and stuff like that.

[@briskstate9673]

Vallentin Lövström Wadell Yeah, too get a better idea what your under, and the camera is used by the drone as a way to help stay stable when in a hover and helps estimate the distance the drone is from the ground

[@kingcrimson234]

The bottom camera isn't used to estimate distance, only to stay stable in the same position on a plane. Distance is determined by the ultrasonic sensor.

[@nickfury1279]

Now lets hope that someone suggests this to Parrot, and as a result, the Parrot AR Drone v3 has that feature.

[@ramicaza]

If It could carry one of those 1 watt wifi boosters from diydrones, that would be crazy. Unfortunately I don't know how much they weigh...

[@iiZhewD]

What is the difference between the "Ar Drone 2.0" and the "Ar Drone 2.0 Elite edition"?

[@leaf16nut]

Tobias Sorensen 12 letters...

[@one_step_sideways]

Cool-looking hulls and props. That's it. But if you don't want to pay more for hulls and props, you can customize your drone yourself and make it look even better.

[@adam_the_one_2_356]

Mark Hazlitt There is no difference I have the elite edition and there is no difference

[@briskstate9673]

The Elite edition just gives you a camo hull, not worth it in my opinion, however you can get different editions like the gps edition and or the battery life edition, the bat life comes with more and better batterys and the gps edition comes with enhanced gps abilities

[@tveten82]

how about get some tape on those props?

[@TECHNOBRIGHTON]

Yay I got one today, I didnt even ask for one!

[@asplenia]

Nice work guys. Thanks.

[@vkumar95aviator]

whats the range on it? since it is using only WiFi.

[@studio9988]

the usb port is used for recording / a gps module like the ardupilot that you have to buy separate.

[@xaploq1]

I wonder if you can use a WIFI booster and fly it further. Going to buy one and try it out

[@matthewjbauer1990]

YES. There are videos on KZbin about using WiFi range boosters to boost the Parrot WiFi but in the end, you are limited by the WiFi on the drone connecting to the booster. You don't get that much range anyways.

[@vkumar95aviator]

If i am not wrong it also has a barometer.

[@theimacman]

The video is disappointing because the model is more expensive than you want it to be? Good logic!

[@MrCasehatter]

Hey you guys are nuts keep it up now the AR Drone no thanks but I'm a 53 year old RC guy so I guess it's cool if you have to have all the high tech. stuff. I'll stay with Quads, Scratch Planes, FPV. which is alot to keep up with... Great Video the ad was ok to..

[@Armoroid1]

Wich app are you using? I cant find one that actually works

[@PieHoleCreations]

Dude! Is that a Pontiac Aztec?!!

[@foodster4]

no It creates its own hotspot that you connect to in wifi

[@kushannaresh5844]

do u need internet to use the app

[@Crusaders12Ryan]

Does anyone know of a way to increase range whiile using wifi and still get video streaming to your device?

[@TioDave]

Use a router as a repeater that has dd-wrt on it. Get better antenna for the router.

[@chris1999code]

Hi flight test. I am a big fan of your show. I have always been interested in RC planes etc. I have always wanted to fly a RC plane unfortunatly they are expensive. I have been saving up for an AR drone and have finally got one. I really Love your fat shark FPV glasses. Where did you get them and how much are they. Please reply to this. Thank you

[@Deltarune1]

Christopher Kode One of my recommendation is the Fatsharks ultra micro kit. it comes with the headset, rechargeable battery, Camera with antenna integrated, and a case for the headset. Right now it is $299.99 for this set on horizon hobby's website. Hopefully that helped you out. Ask questions if needed. Link here > www.horizonhobby.com/product/cameras---fpv/fpv-bundles/fpv-headsets/ultra-micro-fpv-system-with-headset-spmvs1100

[@sennabullet]

Nice vid guys. Thanks for posting.

[@brandon32689]

Do u have to have Internet to fly this

[@SoSPvPMC]

Do you have the quad copter?

[@LucidGwynbleidd]

Wow i am going to buy it now ! Thanks man ! :D

[@matvanhelsing7111]

Does anyone know why we can't get absolute control on any i device?

[@thorfoot1]

You guy's remind me of Wayne & Shuster of the RC World Good stuff. thanks

[@jasonbrown467]

why do you guys mention apple a 100 times but no mention for android, even though android is clearly supported?

[@joearnoldhere22]

Josh, it comes with an Ipad mini...

[@ProGamer99bxl]

What kind of radio ?

[@adampasquale1383]

So you do not run out of power put one of those soler powerd chips into you're project it will charge while you play with the drone in the sun adding flight time.

[@themovietheatre]

This came out months before the first Phantom, drones came a long way since them. Just look at the latest P3's.