To land, you press the downwards pointing button on the controller, and the chopper will slowly descend, along with some emergency siren sounds coming from the controller. Loved this Keith Haring toy, it engrossed my 4 year old just as much as it fascinated me - hours of fun, and it looks so good too. The user can control the autopilot with a remote control, or with a companion computer that runs custom programs. Please ensure that you keep a copy of your proof of postage, as we can't be held responsible for goods that have either been damaged or lost in transit.

The control unit takes 8 AA batteries, and the control unit charges up the helicopter, via a small wire from the batteries. All specifications are approximates only, and manufacturers may alter a product's design without notice. Featuring flashing LED lights and realistic sound effects, you can fly both up and down, auto-hover and turn to the right using the very simple remote control. The chunky controller features just five large buttons: takeoff, land, rotate left, and rotate right.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. They mention that the construction is quite fragile, the propellers are very flimsy and the stabilizer has broken off. Those four small rotors on the main body of the craft aren't real - they merely spin in the down-draft of the gyro-rotors above.

On one full charge we found that the drone would fly for 15 to 20 minutes before needing to be charged again.As the outstanding balance, plus the interest now form part of your payable balance they will attract interest at your account rate, meaning you will pay interest on interest. My teen son had a drone and would understandably not let the little ones play with it so they would love to have their own one and this would be perfect! They mention that it doesn't work properly, the receiver doesn' t work, and the batteries are refusing to fully charge. We actually did have to use this when the drone got to close to Little E’s hair, it stopped the drone getting tangled up.

When flying the drone the children did crash it into the walls and doors and it withheld those bumps and bangs without any issues. You can press the up button to gain altitude, but only for a few seconds, as it will naturally drop to that ideal height of four feet. My First Drone is designed to be extremely simple to use and can be operated with just four buttons.But if my son doesn’t wreck it straight away and enjoys it I will upgrade it for a better one ( that’s the deal (bribery:) ill be giving him! I would look into ways to do some testing on the the flight plan sent from rpi to the drone before running it on the actual drone. Once air born an auto hover feature ensures that the drone remains steady in the air avoiding obstacles. We thought that the drone was faulty as it kept cutting out and dropping to the ground now and again.

The first time I tried a simple RPi program (takeoff, hover and land), the drone just shot up in the air, out of sight so I was convinced I lost it, but then after a minute it just came back and landed (it was an altitude calibration issue). We should know, because as well as testing it ourselves, we also had a very special four year old guest pilot who mastered it in minutes. With a 40 minute charge time, your little one won’t be waiting too long between flights, and even though the flight time is stated to be 3 minutes on the box, we’ve managed to squeeze a few more minutes out of it - it all depends on usage.This lets the kids concentrate only on turning left or right - everything else is handled by the chopper. Selected lines only, determined by size, weight or whether delivered direct from one of our suppliers.