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V-COPTR FALCON I ZERO ZERO ROBOTICS I Drone Review

V-COPTR FALCON I ZERO ZERO ROBOTICS I Drone Review

This video is sponsored by Zero Zero Robotics. All right, Brett Garamella here. Today's video we're 
gonna talk about the V-Copter Zero Zero Robotics   sent me this two motor drone as you can see kind 
of looks like a batman drone or made for batman   anyway so very cool shape so in this video i'm 
gonna go over all the features of this drone so   let's jump right into it so let's start with the 
aircraft so it folds down like this you can just   press these two knobs and it folds down you can 
just take the motors and move it in like this   and then it folds up like this okay so very cool 
shape and since the unboxing isn't too exciting   i'm gonna save that for the end of this video on 
the top is the power button right there and that   turns on the battery which you can see here it's 
very big robust battery and the reason why it's so   big is because it flies up to 50 minutes i'm gonna 
talk about the flight time later in this video now   on the bottom of this drone you have the downward 
sensors right here there's a light indicator in   the back some vents back there as well and then 
in the front you have the two obstacle avoiding   sensors of course the camera three axis gimbal 
which goes down 90 degrees and if you just press   the battery it lights up and it'll tell you out of 
the four lights how much the battery is charged so   in the drone world this is pretty typical what's 
unusual is the fact that it only has two motors   and these propellers are really really big and 
they're low noise propellers so they don't really   make too much noise very very quiet drone and part 
of the reason it's so quiet is because it only has   two motors it's got these two motors one here one 
here obviously and then the low noise propellers   so you can fly this drone really far and it stays 
really quiet okay those are probably the two   biggest features for me those are two best selling 
points but let's get more into detail about   this drone oh one last thing it also has eight 
gigabytes of internal storage and you can put a   micro sd card in here i just put 128 gigabyte card 
into the little slot right there when you're not   flying it good idea to just fold it up gimbal 
cover goes right in the front pretty standard   normal protects the gimbal keeps it in place it 
also came with a landing pad you can use it i   decided not to use it because i thought maybe it's 
just more wind resistance and i like to fly my   drones as fast as i can and have the most flight 
time as possible so to me it was not necessary   like it has these little cushioned four little 
cushion spots on the battery so i just landed it   on the battery on the ground and that seemed 
to work out just fine all right so here's the   controller made of plastic but it has a nice grip 
on the side i would say it's kind of a nice feel   because your hands fit in there quite nicely i 
wish the controller was a little smaller but it's   pretty standard i did like the design the fact 
that this went up and you can put your phone right   here some people like the phone on top i prefer 
the phone right here i kind of like that because   it's really in your face while you're flying 
also the control sticks you can unscrew them   and they're made of metal which is really nice 
return to home button right here a stop button   right here to stop recording and you have your 
record button on the top record for video and then   to take photos is on top or you can just do it in 
the app i just do in the app but if you want to do   that you could and then it has two dials on top 
one is to make the gimbal go down 90 degrees and   then the other dial is to control the exposure or 
the ev so you can raise that up or down i didn't   use this one i only used the gimbal because i just 
kind of left the exposure the way it was and then   you have customizable buttons on the bottom which 
the only one i used was this left one for the map   to bring up the map to see where i was and that's 
about it very straightforward controller and then   right over here it has the usbc that's to charge 
the controller and then a usb cord right here for   your device now you can also put a tablet like a 
holder right here for your tablet but it's a lot   easier to fly with your phone just the way it's 
set up right here so i just use my phone also on   the controller on the side you have s and l mode 
l is for leisure kind of like normal flying mode   and then the s mode is for sport mode for flying 
fast and the obstacle avoiding sensors are off   in sport mode whereas they're on in leisure mode 
i typically flew in sport mode i'll explain that   later in this video and then also the antennas 
they just fold it up like this okay so and it   had really good signal strength so let's move on 
to the features of this drone this drone zero zero   about extended to me with just one battery and 
i found that that one battery was usually enough   for flying to get a lot of shots now it would have 
been nice to have a second battery but with one   battery i've typically got about 40 to 45 minutes 
of flight time now it says up to 50 minutes but   i like to fly in sport mode and it was quite 
windy outside and sometimes when i was flying   two is also really cold so some of these different 
factors can affect the battery life the way you   fly the wind and so forth it does have really 
good flight time now the vcopter app which you   need to fly this drone is very simple and basic so 
if you don't like a lot of complicated things and   just want to get going and fly this is the app 
for you now in the app it has three basic modes   omni follow manual control and track shots now for 
me i like to have total control so i use manual   control now the omni follow was very good as well 
as the tracking feature and i'll talk about that   in a second so i started out manual mode in 4k 
and the only option there is 30 frames per second   which was fine but i like to shoot at a higher 
frame rate so i shot instead at 2.7 k at 60 frames   per second now i wish there was a 24 frames per 
second but you only have 30 and 60 so i went with   the 60 option and the nice thing about shooting 
at 60 frames per second you can slow it down   or speed it up so that's why i shot at 2.7 k which 
kind of brought back memories of the mavic 2 pro   ioz used to shoot that at 2.7k at 60 frames per 
second and like i said you could slow that down   or speed it up in post production so that gives 
you a lot of leniency and difference between 2.7k   and 4k isn't too much that i felt like it still 
was really good image quality now for photos   it says jpeg and raw but i was only able to shoot 
in jpeg as you can see here it also had time shot   where you're able to shoot in through every three 
seconds or 10 seconds or you could just turn that   off personally i wish the raw option was available 
maybe maybe that will be available in the future   with a firmware update and then for the photos 
also had the grid lines which is really nice   because you can frame up the shot keep whatever 
you're shooting in the center like right here i   was shooting at my old high school football field 
i just wanted to keep everything in centers and   having the grid lines helps do that so if you want 
the drone to follow you you use the feature called   omni follow mode so if you go into that main 
settings if you go into omni follow i use that   and the drone basically followed me all around i 
didn't have any problems with it went around this   light post didn't have any signal interference 
or anything like that drone tracks you really   well and it's very simple just press it and 
then you'll see it'll automatically find you   and then you just tap on the screen and then you 
just press record so so pretty straightforward   and i would say overall very good tracking now 
there's another thing called track shots which   is kind of like droney which basically makes 
the drone go out and away so you just do that   the same way as omni follow and just press it 
and then the drone just goes out and away and   it keeps you in the center whatever the subject 
is right there and it goes out and then it comes   all the way back as well worked as advertised 
and you get a nice smooth shot right there now earlier in the video i mentioned that i fly 
in sport mode the reason i flew in sport mode   and not leisure mode so i found in leisure mode 
the obstacle avoidance tended to be a little   overactive or a little too sensitive and i don't 
really mind flying a sport mode anyway so i just   put it in sport mode and i found it was a really 
good speed i could go a lot faster of course you   could also fly in leisure mode and turn the 
obstacle avoidance off if you want so that   it is an option so flying in sport mode at 2.7 k 
at 60 frames per second i was able to get really   the shots i wanted because i was able to fly fast 
and like i said before i was able to slow down and   speed up the footage because i was at 60 frames 
per second now this timeline that i'm editing this   video is 24 frames per second so the advantage 
of having 30 frames per second or 60 frames per   second is at 30 frames per second you can slow it 
down ever so slightly at 60 frames per second you   can slow it down much more so personally i like 
doing that but that's your own personal preference   now i didn't do any range tests but i found the 
signal strength to be really good i flew over   buildings and over trees and all around and never 
had any problem with the signal dropping so that   was really good it says zero zero robotics says 
this drone can go up to seven kilometers or four   miles now obviously i'm never gonna fly it that 
far but in terms of distance and signal strength   really was no issue and and basically like fly it 
anywhere i wanted then in the app and also on the   controller it has the return to home button or 
the rth button which worked perfectly and you   can also set the return to home height which i did 
in the app no problem there as well so like i said   the best part about this drone is the flight time 
and the cool look of it the fact that it's really   quiet flies really far and you're really not going 
to see many drones that look like this sort of   like it belongs with batman or the batmobile 
right the signal strength was really great   as well as the tracking feature now in the app 
although i was able to change the ev i wasn't able   to change the iso or shutter speed so hopefully 
with a firmware update in the future that would   be nice but if you just want to fly and you want 
to get the automatic exposure this app will do   it for you so for most hobbyists this is really 
nice all right that's it now we're going to get   into the unboxing all right so now we're going to 
unbox the vcopter falcon so we're gonna start with   this we have the box for the drone and we have 
the controller box so let's jump right into it   all right so we have this card for unfolding the 
arms and of course we only have two arms because   it's a bicopter so we'll put that over here and 
wow look at this case pretty cool case we got the   little disclaimer and safety instructions and 
then we have underneath all right we got the   charging cable and charger right here then this 
is for landing and then we've got some propellers   here and wow they're big these these propellers 
are some serious propellers very big looks like   they're low noise judging by the design so we got 
a screwdriver and some extra screws right here   and right here another cable i assume this is 
for charging or for downloading your footage   and this is a usb to usbc and that's it 
alright so we're gonna put the box aside   the box is pretty cool because the coolest part 
of the box i like is that falcon right there   that's the box right here before we get to the 
controller now we open and we get the drone so   all righty wow very cool shape i mean the coolness 
factor of this drone is probably one of its best   selling points you're not going to see other 
drones like this wow wow it feels like it's got   some weight to it does not feel light at all feels 
very sturdy robust this just closes like that all   right so this is a nice protective case you can 
have just carry around put it in your bag wow   the design is so cool i mean this drone is i'm 
gonna take off these stickers right here first   all right make sure you remove all the stickers 
this drone i i gotta say this is probably the   coolest design drone i've ever seen or 
ever owned battery goes undone like that   that's the battery right there we can press 
that little button there it looks like it has   four lights so i'm gonna charge that up 
before we get started charging is i think   pretty standard pretty self-explanatory 
you got a usb cord right there the arms   wow they go up like that the design is just very 
cool now let's see the gimbal you got a pinch on   the side right here just open it and pretty 
standard gimbal looks like you can't go up   90 degrees because this is blocking here but you 
can go down it looks like 90 degrees and very cool   looks sturdy looks great the thing i'm noticing 
most is the weight to it i did not expect even   the battery the drone it feels a lot more robust 
it just feels very solid i was not expecting this   okay so let's and that just goes back in there 
it's got some sensors there the light back here   some vents in the back some sensors in the front 
obstacle avoidance this is for turning it on   okay so i guess you gotta you gotta press in the 
side when you put the arms down over here press on   the side to put the arms down it just goes in 
like that and folds up folds up very nice job   zero zero gotta say you guys did a great job with 
the design so there it is that's the v-copter   right there now let's get to the controller 
the controller says blast off controller   great name for a controller got 
a little instruction manual here   i'm going to pull it out and this in here you got 
a little harness that's nice for the controller so   you can put that around your neck i'm probably not 
going to do that but that is a nice touch you can   put this attach that to the controller put that 
around your neck that is a nice touch i tend to   not use it that's just my style but um all right 
now the controller wow controller feels very light   so the drone feels very robust and has some weight 
to it right but the controller feels very light   in hand has a nice feel to it it's not it's like a 
plastic but it has it has almost like a little bit   of a grip to it on the sides it says stop right 
here return to home just two buttons right there   on the other side we can pull this out and this 
is for our phone wow nice job is it big enough   for an for an ipad probably not probably it's just 
gonna be good for your phone but you could attach   a holder to this and probably use an ipad as well 
wow so these are the antennas folds unfolds like   that so the antennas just go up these are the 
control sticks wow these control sticks are made   of metal got two buttons right there feels really 
nice nice simple design i gotta say in terms of   design engineering zero zero robotics did a great 
job there we go it says s and l and then this is   the on button on and off button record for video 
record for photo you got your gimbal up and down   so that's the controller that's the unboxing 
alright that's it for my review of the v copter   falcon hope you enjoyed this video if you did 
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I'm Brett Garamella, and remember, Fly Like a Pro!

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