VIFLY

[johnq816]

VIFLY R220 is a 100% ready-to-fly FPV Racer, no assembly, no calibration, just fly it out of the box. We employed a brand new unified body design which makes the drone a compact design with an amazing anti-crashing performance. We have also added many smart designs such as a LED display to show the battery voltage and channel information, one button to switch the video transmission channel and output power, a DVR port design, warning buzzer, etc. All of these features together make the FPV Racer drone super easy to fly. Check the page here and find more details, http://www.viflydrone.com/

[Gundummy]

Manufacturers section maybe?

Having just been buying stuff from the usual China outlets I've seen literally hundreds of ready to fly racers.... I've lost count  ;D

Looks cool though.

[Ratty]

Trouble is most RTF racers are designed by people that have no idea about racing, and are pretty crap for racing.

Look at all those gimmicks adding un needed weight.

[CurryKitten]

Yes - perhaps move to manufacturers section.  It's also a bit rude to just drop your product video and to disappear forever, so let see if you can respond to these suggestions/feedback - based on what I saw on the video.

On the positive side -

• Design seemed nice, good to have protection for the motors, and the top lipo cover quite nice as well
• Seems nice that you can take it out of the box and fly
• Nice to see you video channel/power and be able to change it easily

Less positive -

• A dedicated DVR port?  Waste of time - nobody really wants to add a DVR and record flight footage this way.  Either you put a cheap and simple HD camera on board, or you record FPV footage at your receiving end
• Camera - the details are too vague.  Nicely protected and angles upwards, but I'm guessing it's a CMOS sensor else you'd have been mentioning it's CCD credentials.  Cameras should have a CCD sensor and WDR to be good for FPV on mini quads - it's just a given, and not worth scrimping on
• The OSD - always nice to have, but the artificial horizon is a waste of time.  Turn that on, use the larger font and have flight mode/voltage/rssi/flight timer - each one in one corner for max info using less screen
• Remote and rx are included presumably and are FlySky.  Made a TX/RX free version so that people can put in their own receiver.

[Gundummy]

I was trying to be subtle CK  :laugh: :laugh:

[Shikra]

That OSD looks awesome!

[bignose13]

That OSD looks awesome!

:bravo:

[Gundummy]

Really!!! Looks like a minimosd hack  :o

[CurryKitten]

Really!!! Looks like a minimosd hack  :o

If you've being subtle this time, it's far too subtle for me :)

I think Shikra might be alluding to the fact it's using his MWOSD code.

[Gundummy]

 :whistle:

[3dlee]

Note to self don't buy rtf wanna be racing quad.Looks bloody awful tbh.Buy cheap buy twice.Quads are so simple to build these days it's crazy.Build it and learn a bunch at the same time.

[CurryKitten]

Note to self don't buy rtf wanna be racing quad.Looks bloody awful tbh.Buy cheap buy twice.Quads are so simple to build these days it's crazy.Build it and learn a bunch at the same time.

I think you misunderstand how people want to get into the hobby.  They have seen cool videos and they want an off-the-shelf product.  Whenever I've been flying and people have stopped to ask me about it, the question is always "how much was it", "where did you get it" and "do you get the radio with it" at this point they are all excited.  Tell them you built it, the components came from 5 different overseas shops and no, the radio is separate and watch their eyes glaze over as this exciting thing goes from a possible purchase to impossible-to-make-unless-you-are-some-sort-of-expert.

So these RTF quads will have a definite market of excited new people who want to get into the hobby.  Could you race with it - no, but that's just a naming thing -it's real name should be "whiz around, crash a lot, and have fun quad", but that doesn't really flow.  Call it a race-quad and it's in the style and has a similar form factor to the ones they may have seen race around and do cool things on YouTube.  I find it doubtful that newbs would buy these and actually want to immediately go racing anyway.

[Ratty]

We've had people turn up to races that have been flying their quads less than a week.

One guy got his quad on Wednesday, and was racing at the weekend.  :o

[rob.thomson]

We've had people turn up to races that have been flying their quads less than a week.

One guy got his quad on Wednesday, and was racing at the weekend.  :o

Lol.   Guess that did not go well.

[Ratty]

They were welcomed with open arms and helped and supported the whole way.....

but no, they didnt win.  ;D