Ruko U11PRO Drone with Camera for Adults 4K, 78 Min Fly Fun Time 3 Extra Batteries, FAA Remote ID Comply, GPS Auto Return, Indoor-Outdoor Mode, Scale 5 Wind Resistance, Beginners

Drone is easy to use took two attempts to connect control but phone controls worked right way. Make sure you are directly behind the drone when calibrating and connecting and very close. My batteries after charging all night started with 56% and 76% charge. I have a third but not sure if I need to do something different when charging.

FIRST AND FOREMOST, In the interest of honesty and integrity, I did receive this product at a discount from RUKO. Having said that, I am an honest person like most amazon goers, so here is my honest medium length review after a lot of testing.Quick Overview: This is a beginner drone, and it is great at being just that. What do you want in a beginner drone? First: You want something that gets your feet wet into the world of drone operation without investing an arm and a leg into it. Second: You want something that will be forgiving of mistakes, while letting you push and improve the boundaries of your drone operating skills. Thirdly: You want something that has enough features for you to tinker with and get the idea of what exactly you will want out of your intermediate or advanced drone (aka expensive $$$). I am an incredibly careful person, and I found myself crashing this drone multiple times; you should do that too. Crash THIS drone. Do not crash the $2500 DJI Mavik 3 drone or any other expensive drone, as more than likely your pocketbook won't forgive you. Test what a drone is capable of on THIS drone, test what features you are going to or not going to use on THIS drone. Get a feel of what it can and cannot do, because rest assured THIS drone absolutely CANNOT give you amazingly crisp picture quality and extremely long-distance flights like a $2500 drone can.Now for pros and cons.PROS:Value: For $320, you can really do quite a bit. It even has a tracker on it if the drone should go down in the woods, which is helpful, as the main goal of you using this drone should be to push your drone operating skills to the maximum, which means you will be most likely searching for this drone quite a bit.Funnness: Probably the most important and subjective part, this drone is a lot of fun to fly for a beginner, it really is, and again there are tons of features to support the newness effect fun factor that the operator will be having when they get the drone. It can go really high and really fast, so that combined with the features make for a good time.Durability: if you watch my video you will see that I crashed my drone into a cement brick and the drone flew just fine afterwards, I also had it fall out of multiple trees and ran it into the ground many times. The drone flies just fine. It is the perfect size and weight to not be too big that if it falls and snaps an arm off, while also not being too small that it's frail.Features: Lots of advanced features when you get the app, they will allow you to dip your toes in, but do not expect them to be incredibly fleshed out. For instance, the "follow me drone" feature was cool, but it definitely was too slow if I wanted to take it snowboarding with me. This is a beginner drone remember this.Contents: Comes with 3 batteries, helpful if you have kids that like to make things disappear, also has multiple charging cables for them, again helpful if people make things disappear in your house. The drone also comes with 4 Type A replacement propeller blades, and 4 Type B, helpful if you have bad accidents.Instructions & Ease of use: I like the quick instructions guide, it made it so I could get the drone up and flying in under 5 minutes. It was very intuitive to fly just took a while to learn all the extra features.Photos and Vid: I liked that I could capture media very easily from the drone via my phone, just one click and I had what I wanted. I liked the circle an object feature, this is cool for capturing unique scenarios.CONS:Misleading Title Description: This cannot fly for 78 minutes on one sitting as the title says on amazon, it is 26 min of flight time, then swap your battery. I do not like when companies do this in the description, I find it misleading, however it seems that a lot of companies are doing this now. I complained about this last time, and they fixed it though.APP: It seems a lot of users have issues with the app being intuitive and easy to use, you do not need this to fly, however it is basically necessary if you want to use the features easily. I believe they have done some updates, but there is still some wanting there. The app especially has a hard time when you turn off just the drone, then turn it back on and try to fly right away.Pictures quality: So the pictures they show of captured images that looks crisp and perfect, you can forget about. Unless you have the drone sitting about perfectly still it is almost impossible to get a magnificent picture like the ones displayed, so the 4K basically means nothing, but this is to be expected given the sensor on these cameras are just not big enough until you spend a lot more money. In conclusion, I found this drone fun to fly, it has a lot to tinker around with as well in the features to keep a young person busy. This could be trying to make the drone follow them at a skate park, or making the drone circle their new car to show their friends. It is fairly loud when close up, so it can't really be used for stealthy spying like people try to pretend. People will come up to you when using this and try to ask you questions, or tell you to not fly over their area, or ask to fly it, so just realize it's a big attention grabber. Anyways Enjoy the drone, learn from using this one, and when you're ready, move up to a more expensive drone after you've mastered some of the beginning and intermediate basics.

I have had this for a few months now. I love how it compacts and all fits into a small case. Easy to take with you. Very easy to fly. My four and six year old have both had the opportunity to fly it.I originally chose this version because it was listed as able to fly indoors as well as outdoors. Not that great as an indoor drone.Sometimes it feels as though it doesn't want to follow your control. I will be trying to fly it in a different direction and it doesn't respond at times. There are also times when it just randomly wants to go up, that is not good when you are indoors.It has the ability to fly back to original start point, but there are issues with feature. Sometimes it just wants to come back even if you didn't push the button. When it is returning, it goes up and then down where it originated from. You want to only use that feature in a clear space because it is not paying attention to trees, buildings, or electric wires.

First impressions: This drone is definitely a move up from those inexpensive ($30 to $50) drones that I have flown in the past. I definitely enjoy the ability to have been able to get this in the air and be able to relax when I flew it. I did not feel like I had to worry about it ending up in a neighbors yard or flying into a tree as it had decent stability when in a light wind. I also felt comfortable getting it up above house level and, as shown by some pictures, get some decent elevation without worry.Phone holder I have a Galaxy S22 Ultra with a case It fits in the phone holder perfectly! A great plusFlying As I am new to flying drones with any consistency (having time to fly), I found this drone to be a pleasure to fly as it was easy to figure out the basics. I did find that it was very valuable to give myself time to get familiar with controls and setting up for flying while still at home so that when I took it out to fly, I had a good experience getting it up and going very quickly.Applications Besides taking this drone out for the sheer enjoyment of getting it up in the air, I also found it useful at home. I have solar panels on the roof and like to check on them on occasion. It was very nice to be able to use the drone to fly over them and take pictures - much better than climbing on the tile roof with temps over 100F. So a great bonus to start!Ease of use Follow the instructions and watch the screen and it takes you through the process. 1. power on drone 2. connect phone app to drone (wireless connection) 3. power on controller and bind to drone 4. watch app as it tells you the process to calibrate drone after that it is ready to flyI did notice that when completing a flight and going to the next one - pay attention to the beeps - it was reminding me to reset RTH functionVideo - training For starters to help become familiar with the U11 PRO, I would recommend searching YouTube - lot's of good introductory videos to get you started on the right footWind a little light in the wind does well in light breezes but need to be careful once the winds starts picking pictures and videos Pictures I was able to take a picture of my other drone (Ruko F11), which my son (adult) was flying at the same time. Also have a couple of other pictures including one of my solar panels Videos a little jumpy due to breeze - When I was flying, the wind picked up so the videos taken did bounce around so I did not have a chance to get any decent videosOverall, I am very pleased with the U11 PRO and definitely hope to spend more time with it. Also, hope to have my son and wife try it out as I feel it is a good one for them to get some experience in flying drones.Once the weather cools down (I live in Southern California), I hope to spend more time getting to play with more of the features that this drone has.