Quadcopter battery charged, tick! GoPro battery charged, tick! Massive open space where I'm unlikely to hit anything, tick!!! Time to have some fun! Mounting the GoPro on a tripod in the middle of an open field, video mode set to widescreen at 60fps (as this thing is quick!), I hit record and got some cool shots flying towards, away from and around the GoPro!
Having captured some pretty cool clips that I could cut together, I wanted to take some high-res photos of it hovering and accelerating off into the distance. Ideally I wanted to hit burst mode when the Quad came into shot, but I ran out of hands as I was flying it at the same time! So I set the GoPro to time-lapse mode where it takes a photo every 0.5 seconds automatically so I could concentrate on flying the Quad at some crazy angles and not hitting the tripod!
Solid blue light indicates stability mode with GPS lock on
Red blades at the front helps with the orientation of the Quad when far away
If I had angled the GoPro towards the sky it would have captured more vivid colours
The Blade 350 QX hovers quite well once trimmed
This is almost at full tilt as the Quad accelerates into the distance!
Originally I wanted a Quadcopter to be able to capture some awesome aerial footage with my GoPro and I looked at buying a DJI Phantom. However, the RC Geek in me was so impressed with the sheer performance of the Blade 350 QX that it's as much fun to use without even attaching the camera to it (GoPro mount included in the box with the QX model). Having received excellent customer service from Neil at Hurricane Models who originally showed me the Blade from Horizon, I bought it from them who were kind enough to 'bind' the model to the spektrum radio gear and enable GPS lock mode, which allows the Quad to 'return to home' at the flick of a switch - demonstrated at the end of the video above. I thoroughly recommend!
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