Sunday, April 14, 2019

Best Indoor Beginner RC Drone Eachine E014 Windmill - WiFi SmartPhone FPV 2019

I like my new indoor WiFi 720p FPV Drone with Altitude-Hold (via optical-flow AI). This is the best beginner RC drone I have flown in a while. Very stable and easy hover. Auto-TakeOff, Auto-Land, and Altitude-Hold ...  all work fine.

Comes with a good/basic Mode-2 RC-Controller and SmartPhone-Clip for FPV.  I fly (Mode-2 like most people) with an old iPhone-5 clipped-on. I use 4- AAA Eneloop rechargables in black RC-Controller.

Connect Eachine drone to phone's WiFi.
WiFi Password: 12345678

Power-on RC-Controller. Watch the blue-lights on controller and drone.

Apple iOS App: Eachine Fly- Hailin Yi
Works on iPhone-5 (even with 16gb with old iOS-10.x) 

In Options (gear icon) , set to:
Scenery-Mode
Master-Mode (use controller). Model-2 = Mode-2
- Click X in top right to save/close.

Throttle (left stick) from Max-to-Min to ARM drone
- IIRC, you get a beep and last blue-led on RC-Controller goes solid-on.
Flight time is around 5-minutes indoors.
Just coreless-motors on this one (which are not too loud).


Nice RC-controller, on-board flight-controller, and position-hold abilities for a quad under $39 usd. There is usually a good coupon, but it only works from this page (and once per customer). I pay with PayPal. 

If you are new pilot, I suggest you stand behind the drone before take-off. Indoors, empty garage, or zero-wind is easiest. Don't fly over people, houses, traffic, or anything expensive. If windy, watch your position and altitude (to minimize fly-aways). Know before you fly outdoors.