V-Copter Falcon (2 Armed Drone) Flight Review IN-DEPTH - How Good is it REALLY?! [BONUS CRASH TEST]
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Enjoy my ZeroZero V-Copter Falcon 2 armed drone review series! Here's part 2 with in-depth flight test & crash! Get it here amzn.to/3s3CPrA or here usa.banggood.c...
This drone has me intrigued by it's unique 2 armed design and claimed 50 minute flight time. Will it perform on these claims? While there are a few shortcomings right out of the box, I'm excited to explore it more in future flight & range tests!
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That drone flies very well & impressed with the flight time. Maybe in a future firmware update that they can fix the issues you mentioned. Excellent flight test Dustin & looking forward to the range test 😊
I really like the different ideas coming out for drones. The flight time was really good too! Great video.
The V Copter Falcon...Absolutely Awesome. Thanks
Happy Flying!
Very nice review and demonstration. "Hawaiian Rainbows, white clouds go by, you show your colors, up in the sky" Beautiful... Thanks for sharing!
I got to fly Ken Heron’s V-Copter at the SpinUp in November, and I really really impressed with how well it flew. Great test flight Dustin, and thanks for going through all the settings and flight modes. And the battery test was impressive, until it fell out of the sky. They will need to work on that. Overall is seems like a pretty good Drone, Its just a little overpriced for most folks.
Great Review as always. As for this $1200 UAV ... not very impressed with any aspects of it. Too many problems that I can see. Other than the somewhat innovative design, I can't see any other plus side which would make me want to own one of these. Since you saw what happens when it hits 3% battery, be very careful on any kind of range test. Since its max speed is 22mph (at best), I don't think you'll be getting out that far anyway. An interesting test you may want to try BEFORE range test is to see if it can fight its way back against the wind. The new Autel Nano/Nano+ quads have a fatal flaw in this parameter, as many reviewers have shown ... it can't come back against even a moderate wind (reminded me of the Syma X8C, which had the same problem). Have a good week ... Mahalo !
That's probably why the battery has a long running time as it takes forever to get back to you and descend 🤣🤣
yess just waiting for this video since you release the unboxing video. Thank you
I'm strongly thinking about buying one of these. This drone seems a bit smoother and pretty elegant.
I have a dji mini 2, best drone I've ever had. I prefer it over the mavic pro. Never had one these though.
On a second thought, checked out your channel. Looks like you already have one!
Great review Dustin, I think the obstacle avoidance isn't needed for this, because if your tracking someone, it should work, hopefully they can fix it, because it sees the ground and stop's. Anyway it's a cool looking drone, Good Job to you Both. 👊💯🤘
There could be a very interesting range test coming up
Enjoyed watching your review. Best regards from Cebu, Philippines
DJI and a few others have really set the bar high.
At the moment, Skydio is setting the bar. Their sensors and tracking ability are far and above everyone else. Autel has a healthy lead in the camera realm.
My only issue with mine is the overall slowness in sport mode. There is plenty of room for speed.
Super cool drone. Nice review as always.
really excellent video. in all fairness, i have to disagree on one thing tho. the dropping out of the sky was exactly what should have happened. if you follow the on screen prompts it was saying it was trying to do a forced landing but you kept making it fly. then a notice came up (briefly) that it was cutting power because of undervoltage from the battery, so that was correct too to protect the battery and stop you from forcing it to go to 0% and killing the battery. you never want those batteries to go to absolute 0%. in normal circumstances you'd let it do the forced landing to protect both the drone and the battery. so i wouldn't count your 'extreme condition' test to count as a mark against it. imho if used as directed it should be fine. still, enjoyed the video ;)
Good point. For safety sake I do think they should update with a little voltage buffer where the user is locked out of upward throttle at a certain extent. Other companies have implemented this and it works very well to prevent exactly what happened here. 🍻
@@DustinDunnill I disagree about the voltage buffer. If the drone is over water, I'd rather it drop out of the sky once it barely makes over land the safely lower itself into the water. That drop out of the sky *FEATURE* might provide the few seconds necessary to save the drone.
Another great video
Great review!!
As always…. Thanks for the “What’s Up?”
It looks like this drone use some sort of open source CV algorithm to identify people. By the way thank you for your testing. This company has good potential to catch the DJI or Autel if they can make more products like that.
Obstacle avoidance must be picking up the drone itself or the vibrations from the tilt motors they had almost the problem with radar on the opsrey when it was first built only in the hover mode but was okay on forward flight had something to do with vibration that was messing up some sensors would give false readings
I think dji still win than this. Tq sir and sonaya for review and test flight this V-copter Falcon drone. Super relax and Good Job.👍
may I ask what kind of video camera you were using on top or your hat? I love the video you've taken with that as well, I have a GoPRO Max, which I don't think does as good a videos as I'd like it to do. And great review of this drone, thank you for putting this out there
DJI Action 2 camera. Linked in description under video 🍻
The Max is great for 360 videos and photos. I use one to make Streetview... But If you try to use it to crop regular 16:9 video from, it's never going to look good
It may seem odd but i actually like that you can override the drone to the extend that it falls out of the sky. I like todays drones assistance systems but i want them that way, assisting me when I WANT it! I dont want a drone wich is patronizing me even if it is for her own protection. I am the pilot and i decide what to do whatever the consequence may be.
Yet another awsome out of the sky.video.
Thats a cool drone!
Hi Dustin I'm a huge huge huge fan and do you still have the DJI mini 2
Yes 🙂🍻
I think that the DJI Mini 3 Pro is a much better buy, with roughly the same cost, it's got a much better camera, flies faster & farther, much better obstacle avoidance, & more extra auto features, & better failsafe options. Besides, it's 1/3 the weight with the standard battery, & not much more with the Plus battery, & with the Standard battery, doesn't need FAA registration & Part 107 pilot certification. Thanks for the video!
I personally wouldn't waste my money on it , way overpriced . Sticking to DJI . I always appreciate your video reviews .
Thx Dustin excellent review. I'm gonna pass on this one. DJI will probably make a better one.
I think this is the drone used in luring the zombies in ALL OF US ARE DEAD.🥰🥰🤣
nice video
Always said with respect, why doesn't your daughter direct and you run one day in a video? Consider it a request from one of your followers ;)
What happen to this VCoptr today?
I think the DJI FPV drone is better bang for the buck than this drone. It's still an interesting drone. Thanks for testing it out.
Just imagining that thing dropping suddenly at 120m is troubling. I laughed, but only because in this case it was completely harmless.
Wow - The most amazing thing here is Sonia's patience - Jeese my Wife would have shown me the finger after the first jog, as for getting her sprinting, nah I aint that brave. You need Usain Bolt as a partner Dustin! Great review (but it really is a rubbish bit of kit given its cost isn't it...)
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The drone travel speeds are too conservative IMO. They need to open that up more.
Super video
I like dji mini 😅 because it’s small?
“Flight Records” YIKES!!! “Knock Knock” who’s there. “ The FAA, we want to ask you a few questions “ 😩
I didn't think the camera looked that bad at all. Certainly fixable in post
Good point, it did look much better when seeing the 4k onboard video while editing. The FPV View was misleading 🍻
do you think you could long range across the channel to the big island? I could catch your plane at upolu and mail it back.. thanks for the vids, learning fpv in north kohala. alohaz
Thought about it with my 4Glte Modified plane but not sure how TMobile cell signal is Kona side going toward Maui 🤙🍻
hi dustin thankyou so much I love your channel! im not sure how to redeem the prize ?
this is a scam.
Scammers always impersonating me. Please report them 🍻
Which firmware are you using? (1.6.0 is the latest available)
That camera is woeful and what I'd expect to see on a $100 drone also the lack of safety features make this drone unfit for sale and should be recalled before someone gets injured.
broth~ Wow. you did nice sharing~see u aruond.=)
I wonder when dji will make one
they probably won't but i'm surprised someone hasn't before this its an interesting design that deserves more consideration and R&D.
If the price were about 1/2 of what it is, it might be worth checking out. $1200 for this, no way.
It needs more cow bell.
Strange clicking the link says due to policy reasons product can not be shown ,,,, thats on banggood ?????
Thanks. That's weird. It is as there on banggood yesterday 🍻
You can see it bob around in the video while at max altitude. So my guess is Hyperlapse and panoramic are out of the question. The picture quality is really bad. Looks like junk to me.
We're can I buy that drone I need that
How much is a plane?
You can buy a used Cessna 172 for about $60k. Maybe it's a Learjet you're after though: expect to pay $350k and up for those.
That just looks like it should not fly, a lovely piece of engineering.
Like it video...👍👍👍🙏👈
Video quality looks decent, I'd just be worried about stability. Also doesn't look like a very fun drone, being quite slow..
okay i just seen the price and i think they're punching way above their weight!, this is a Beta test unit with bugs. Bit cheeky to command such a price.
Hallo, past an der Fernsteuerung auch ein iPad Mini ?
English please.
@@Waldherz nix English
damn dont like the price for less esc's and motors
It looks weird but in a good way.
Like a bird of prey about to snatch it's meal.
Thats the drones in all of us are dead movie🤣
It's $900 on Amazon!
$900.00 too much
10m/s is not very good if caught flying back against the wind 😱
Hi
That drone looks weird but it flies good
Yeah it does
It looks like it has obstacle detection,
Nice review. 10 m/s = 32.8 ft/s doesn't it... not 22 ft/s
I thought it said 22 mph
10 m/s is close to 22 mph.
where buy it
is different, but for the buck ill go with any dji product at this price class, lower the price gain a reputation. for over 800 bucks? nah, ill pass.
Just fathom this... they did what engineers and $$$millions spent on getting the Osprey helicopter to do. 😲
I’ll stick with my quad
I've seen others reviews and 1200$ it"s way expensive for this drone, it's so fragile it can't handle a crash at 20 feet.
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Oh no. With that price, the skydio 2 is a lot better.
Overall I agree, but the v-copter definitely has a place in the drone world. It just needs substantial tweaks to make it better, right now there is no other like it.
No other drone of it's type on the market can do nearly an hour of flight. That by itself deserves some recognition. The blades are positioned high enough above the plane that the camera sits on there should be no need for the software to try and remove it from the footage the way other drone designs are forced to do.
This would likely be fine for basic tasks such as inspection of structures (roofing etc).
For any who haven't been watching this industry evolve from the early days, DJI wasn't an amazing overnight success in terms of its capabilities (for what DJI charges now, it still isn't IMO).
It's because it doesn't have a digital personality I am from the future and this can't compute realality
Dynamic range is very poor, reminds me of cameras 20 years ago.
I can't able to connect my remote control to mobile in 2022 for mavic air 2
Que bicho más raro...está bien que experimenten pero no le veo muy controlable....como los cuadricopteros normales
Bi copters are the worst idea for camera drones. First bit of wind and it's going to be swinging like Tarzan. I could understand for a bit of a fun model to fly, but the price is outrageous for what it is.
Video seemed rock solid even with rocking around so gimbal is doing it's job very well which did surprise me 🍻
That thing is pretty expensive 🥴
Not really, can I afford it? It would be difficult but I could, however in the big picture view of drone tech this is priced in line with other drones of it's type.
@@Enonymouse_bro this thing is overpriced garbage... You are delusional
there are no 60GB cards... only 64GB... But the capasity is 60ish GB. Otherwize nice video! =)
The two arms could work but the camera is really poor…it’s as bad as the first Zino and looks like the same one.
Nope not for me 🤔
Привет из России!
Super overpriced, performance isn't as great as its cheaper competitors, camera isn't amazing in any way.
Nope. Definitely not worth it. Don't buy it
Those plastic antennas are just for looks they do nothing.
My opinion, an overpriced and useless toy!
Tip material it’s junk
Dustin..I got a message from someone using your name and profile pic. I was told to message you on Telegram as I won a Mav Mini 3 ??. I am assuming it is BS or is it legit? Im a long term subber. Anyone else get the message?
Scam. Please report the impersonator channel 🍻
I had the same message
Just a tip but almost anyone telling you to message them on telegram is probably a scam. As far as I'm aware it's mostly used in Russia. But for some reason I've noticed that telegram is the preferred platform used by scammers on UA-cam(and Whatsapp seems to used some too).
@@DustinDunnill Speaking of the mini 3 did you get one? I just ordered one as my first drone. I've really enjoyed your video's on the other two DJI minis. So if you did get it you should definitely make a video on it.
Yes, I got one just as we were moving so I'm behind a bit. Just need to edit the videos and it will be up soon 🍻
Big enough I would lay on it with my goggles and fly it for real 🤔😔😊
What goggles connect to this...
How? Lol