A couple of days ago, I accidentally had a chance to join Zero Zero Robotics' offline
activity, which they held for flying their latest V-Coptr Falcon drone,
the world's first V-shaped bi-copter. This drone was actually released last year but never hit
the market officially until now. As I did many searches on YouTube, it seems like my video is
the first English real-life flying review video ever. As Zero Robotics told me that they haven't
shipped to any overseas influencers for reviewing either. So buckle up and hear what I have to say.
What really impressed me of course is the cool and innovative design. Unlike the dominant
quadcopters we've seen on the market in recent years. The V-Coptr Falcon is a V-shaped drone,
which looks super cool. Of course, I'm not saying those quadcopters have a bad design, they look
fancy too, it's just we do need something new for this over-saturated drone market, don't we?
The folding mechanism works easily, when you unfold, just put the two arms up fully. The
motors as we can see are rotatable. When you fold, you have to press the buckle under the arm and put
down the arms. The drone also comes with a stand for better landing, install it before flying,
it’s not mandatory though. As for the battery, you just slide the buckles on the side to take
it out. The remote controller has an innovative folding design as well.
You can switch between the sports mode and normal mode on the side. There is also a “Stop” button
on the front panel in case of any emergency, the other buttons seem basically the same as DJI’s.
Hold down the power key on the drone to turn it on. You turn on the remote
controller in the same way. The drone and the RC will enter pairing mode. Once the
yellow indicator on the remote controller turns to green it means they have paired
successfully. For the V-Coptr you have to use the App otherwise you can’t fly it.
Before taking off, as you can see the motors will rotate themselves to the right position and then
spin, when you push the throttle it then takes off. Whilst it’s flying, it looks like a falcon
in the sky, that’s why it’s called “Falcon”. Let me talk a bit about my flying experience. Well,
one thing I noticed immediately was it felt less responsive than some of the DJIs I was flying,
even in sports mode. Well, on one hand, you could say it’s safer to fly in this way because it’s
slower in speed, but on the other side, you will have a less enjoyable controlling experience. I
personally do hope it can be more responsive in Sports mode. The second thing is the super-long
battery life. Though it doesn’t have the 50minutes of flying time as advertised because that data was
from lab tests in ideal conditions, but it’s still way longer than some of the drones I’ve
flown. It can easily reach 35 to 40 minutes. I also like how low-noise it is when in the air.
The hovering is stable as you can see, even with the wind there. And here is the footage if you
are interested to know. It supports 4k/30fps recording. The footage looks sharp and vivid,
I guess it’s enough for your normal daily life sharing on social media. But when I
viewed it carefully on a bigger screen, I did notice the footage is very soft on two sides,
the middle as you can see is clear. This is very weird, not sure if it’s the problem
that’s only on this drone I was flying or a problem that exists on a larger scale.
Here is the App interface. We see three choices on the home page: Multi-directional tracking,
Manual Controlling, and Intelligent Shooting. I tried the tracking mode. Well, it followed me,
as you would expect. I walked, ran fast, and even hid behind a sign, and then out,
seems pretty smooth. Until this happened! As I was approaching the drone, it stepped back
to keep me in the frame, but it didn’t notice there was a tree behind it, and then crashed.
Do you think in this situation any drone can crash or just V-coptr?
My opinion, since the V-Coptr doesn’t have rear obstacle sensing is that it
could be an issue for this kind of drone in such situations, what do you think?
My conclusion is that the V-Coptr Falcon is a cool drone with a cool original design. If you
are bored with traditional quadcopters and try something new, then surely it gives you a fresh
flying experience. But you have to know, it’s not cheap at all and honestly in my opinion,
the V-Coptr Falcon is still not finished. The image quality has a problem that I referred to
before, though I’m not sure if it’s just an isolated case or normal. The build quality
is doubtful. Remember it crashed but later we found it and there seemed to be no damage at
all on the outer shell, but when we were trying to fly after, it couldn’t. The prompt said the
motor had an issue. That kind of crash could never be an issue for my DJI Mavic Air 2. I crashed the
Air 2 multiple times and one time even the motor shell got broken but I just snapped it back in and
all was good. Nevertheless, I’m glad to see some drone companies like Zero Zero robotics are trying
something new, to give us a fresh experience in the drone industry and I want to give a big thumbs
up for that. Because the more competition, the more benefits to users. Will you support new drone
companies like V-coptr or are you are good with the old ones? Let me know in the comments section,
and please don’t forget to subscribe. I’m Sami and I will see you in the next one.