Great for learning to fly quads
345880
Great for learning to fly quads, but the video is useless for flying.  There is a fish angle lens add on you can get, but my camera is mostly green and black images now anyway, a few too many hard landings, oops.
4548604
Great way to learn to fly quadcopters. I bought the F180c for fun and video and found it so much fun that I have pulled the trigger on a larger professional model. I had some issues with being green and found myself doing some repairs and learning how to disassemble , solder and deal with the motors rotations - all of which have helped me through the learning process. I found the the customer service and support to be exceptional. Prompt resolution to issues and an aim to please attitude I haven't seen in a lot of online purchase support systems. The product is really good and exceeds expectations for the fun factor. I would recommend the Holy Stone F180c for learning and just having fun.
3796541
FIRST FLIGHT: I can't help you bind the unit to the controller because that depends a lot on which one you decide to purchase. Once you do get it connected, the next step is to fly it. Even if you have some experience, it'll be a bit uneasy learning the new unit. You'll want to find out exactly how much is required to lift it and keep it in control. The best advice I can give is to pop it up off the floor by about a foot and try to keep it in the air in place there. It'll likely bump and hop on the ground, but it'll be fine. I'd spend the first whole battery charge just trying to keep it within a small area at a foot off the ground. Here you can begin to get a sense for whether or not you need to adjust the trim on the controller. Largely, the unit won't be helped much by adjustments in trim. It's simply not finely balanced enough for that to matter. The battery will move around during flight and change the weight of the unit, so spending time to try to get it to hover perfectly will be wasted.

SECOND FLIGHT: Once you are comfortable with hovering, you can move on to controlling the unit with just the right controller. This will give you a sense of how quickly it can respond. You may find out here that it senses how fast it is moving and will adjust its response to your input accordingly. It'll tilt back further if you ask it to stop if it is going at a faster rate, which is nice.

Moving beyond those flights, you'll want to learn how to bank turn, which involves turning both sticks in the same direction. This helps the unit turn without drifting after it changed the way that it is pointing. It'll bleed off some of its momentum allowing you to make tighter more controlled turns. Begin practising turns and then figure-eights in the air. After a few weeks, you'll begin to learn how to respond to just about any situation.

After playing around with a cheap drone and controller set, I decided to purchase this quadcopter and a Devo-7e by Walkera and installed custom firmware. I am very happy with the purchase. This unit can over within a small area, it responds well to all input, and I can land it on things that are smaller than the copter. All aspects of the unit's flight characteristics exceeded my expectations. On still days with no wind, I can even fly out outside.

However, this unit is delicate. It will not survive numerous crashes. I've been careful not to run it into things at full speed, but I do usually end up tapping a wall or a chair. I was a little careless and tried to fly it slowly through some chair legs. This resulted in a rotor hitting a leg, which ended up breaking the motor even though the rotor didn't break. I was able to purchase a replacement part, and it looks like it should be easy to install. The motors are connected to the board via a connector rather than being soldered. The motors are also labelled by their wire color. If you have to replace a motor make sure you get the correct colored wire, two rotate clockwise and two rotate counter-clockwise.
674291
Easy to fly right out of the box. Being a beginner I was nervous, but on a calm day anyone can fly this. Battery life is short, camera is ok and the quad can take a good beating. I wish the camera was not angled down, but oh well, for the price I can't complain.  One last note, the camera function is a little tricky but once you get it figured out its fine. Sometimes when trying to review the video I get error messages saying invalid format. Not sure what that is all about. Overall it is fun at a cheap price.
4876460
I've taught myself to fly with this little gem.  I started off using the Beginner mode for the the first few months, and every flight was easy from takeoff to landing.  This version of the aircraft is the BNF or bind-and-fly which assumes you already have a compatible transmitter, or the transmitter left from the RTF or ready-to-fly version.  And the reason I bought this version was that I plowed the RTF version into the ground the first time I took it out of Beginner mode.  It's easy to panic when things go wrong that first time, so practice this sequence a few times: 1)  Get some altitude and mentally rehearse what's coming next,  2) think the red panic button, 3) flip the toggle switch out of Beginner mode, 4) press and hold the panic button once the attitude departs form your comfort zone, then 5) flip the toggle switch back to Beginner mode and breathe.

It takes some dedicated practice to be able to fly this airplane outside of the Beginner mode, but take it a few short steps at a time and you'll get there!
2876803
This is the second one I have owned because the first one got away from me when I flew it too high outdoors on a gusty day.  It headed for a wooded area and disappeared, but I'm still hoping it will show itself one day.  This is a great quad for indoor use in order to sharpen your piloting skills for bigger and better flying machines. I would recommend ordering extra batteries with it as it ships with just one and that's only good for for 5-6 minutes of flight time and then takes 50-55 minutes to recharge.
271794
This is a great flying little quad, although it has been fairly windy since this has been delivered I have still enjoyed it, it does fair in light wind but it is a very light little machine and a gust of wind will pick it up and carry it away fairly quickly, It's a tough little bird though, I hung it up in a tree yesterday and instead of freaking out I looked and saw how it was hooked to the tree then I flew it right off the branch fairly easily, then instead of getting hung up even further up the tree I let it fall the rest of the way down, it smacked just about every branch on the way down and really don't even have a scratch on it.

The camera is a fairly decent little camera although I upgraded the MicroSD card fairly quickly, the 1gig card fills up pretty quick. I use a USB cable to copy the video files to my computer instead of taking the SD out every time I'm sure taking the card in and out so much will wear it out fairly quick.

The remote is great, it feels comfortable in hand and has digital trim settings and a digital readout showing throttle setting, remote battery life, trim settings, camera settings, etc, it also has the 360 inversion button you can tap to make the quad do flips, be sure to have some altitude before doing this a be ready to hit the throttle again to keep the quad from hitting the ground, you can also use the top left button for this, press it and when it starts beeping you can tap you rudder controls up, down, left, or right ta make it flip in the direction you like, this is a little more fun than just the 360 inversion.

Other than that there is not much more I can say about this Quad other than I love it, I do plan on building my own quad in the future and this is giving me some great training on the physics of a quad and how to fly one.

Let me add that some proper care an manteinence of your LiPO batteries will make them last long, There are many videos on Youtube on proper care of your batteries but here are some tips.

* Your batteries will come from the factory charged, but not fully, Charge them fully before flying.
* Do not run your battery down all the way, leave about 20% power in the battery, you can purchase voltage alarms that will buzz at a specified
 voltage.
* after flying wait about 15 minutes for battery to cool down before re-charging.
* when putting batteries up for storage do not fully charge them, charge them about 80%
439452
This is a great quadcopter, works perfect right out of box.  Easy to fly and has a low (beginner) setting and a high (experienced) setting.  Come with additional set of props, but buy another set of batteries, I purchased 4, total time over 30 minutes, close to 50 on the low setting.  This is very strong, I have crashed many times with no damage.
3877044
Very stable flight, and easy to fly with some practice. Great starter quad.
3736330
Fun! Wish the battery life was a little longer (seems to run down really fast), BUT this model is perfect to get you started on learning how to fly a drone before moving on to one of the more expensive ones.  My husband loves it.  :-)
4286640
This is a great plane to use to learn to fly RC with an instructor. Just toggle a switch and the SAFE mode can keep you from crashing the plane. My instructor calls this a major breakthrough in RC instruction.
3332428
I received my quad in 2 days as advertised. I am new to quads so I did not know what to expect when learning to fly. This quad has preformed better then I imagined. I have crashed this thing more times then I care to admit but so far the props have not broken but they actually fly off which is helpful. I expected a cheap quad based on the price but so far I am extremely satisfied. I would recommend this for first time flyers and I suspect experianced one would also enjoy it.
1817596
So far , this quad is really fun to fly, easy to learn and battery life is faily good.
1217884
This is awesome!  Got this for my son and we've had a blast with it, so much so that I'm going to have to order my own as well.  The quad is very small compared to others but i think this also lends to it's durability.  We've crashed it plenty and both my 7 year old son and I are able to fly this with no real issues.  The LED's are very cool and make flying and knowing what direction you're headed a lot better.
718672
This is so awesome and it works! I  thought that with how affordable it is, that it wouldn't even be able to get off the ground, but it flies great! I have to warn you that it's super hard to fly, though. This will frustrate pretty much everyone except for someone who's already an expert in quad copters. But, it's an awesome first copter to practice on. I felt that I built my skills a lot with this, and now I can fly my bigger copter a lot better than I did before I played around with this.

An awesome thing about this is that you can separately order every part of this copter. And, unlike many electronic devices, the sum of the parts is about the same as getting a new one. So, I guess you could also just get two, and when one breaks, then fix it with the other one. Or wait for them to both break and then Frankenstein a whole one back together. But, because these have such available and interchangeable parts, then I can't give it less than five stars.

The battery lasts for about five minutes of flying. Or, fifteen minutes if you're like me, and get it stuck a lot. And, the blades are all plastic, but they hurt if they run into a person. This is also really easy to get stuck on top of a roof or in a tree, so I recommend flying it in a pretty open field. They do pretty good at crash landings, too, as long as they land on grass, which was most of my landings.

It is packaged with a bunch of replacement blades, too, so you don't have to worry about breaking a few of them. They're easy to replace, too.

This listing has both the CX-10 and CX10A. The only difference is that if you depress the left stick three times on the 10A, then you go into headless mode, which is better for beginners. If you want more control, though, then you should get the CX-10. Or, you should get both, since their parts are all interchangeable.
906369
It flies well and is about what I expected, it helps me learn to fly my bigger Syma 5XC-1 quad better too and it is difficult to beat for the price!
1465831
Awesome quad copter if you are looking to get into the hobby this is a great entry level quad. one thing that it doesn't say in the discription is that it also comes with a prop guard and u wrench