2014-09-15: Quadcopter Beginners: Flight Basics (Cheerson CX10, from Banggood.com)

A brief (well, 10 minutes but I tried to avoid rambling) tutorial on the basics for a quick start with quadcopters, aimed at utter newbies. This guide uses the Cheerson CX10 - the principles are the same for all quadcopters, and this one is a perfect indoor trainer as it it cheap, robust and very, very portable (get one here: http://www.banggood.com/Cheerson-CX10-CX10-Mini-24G-4CH-6-Axis-LED-RC-Quadcopter-RTF-p-926614.html).

I chose the wrong time and place for this video, so I'll do a better one sometime later.

Excuse my cat.

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Syma X5C Quadcopter Review from Banggood

Syma X5C Quadcopter Review from Banggood A review and flight demo of The Syma X5C 2.4GHz 4 Channel RC Quadcopter from Banggood. This is a great low price drone that also comes equipped with a HD cam that takes great video.

I got mine from http://www.banggood.com/Syma-X5C-2_4G-4-Channel-Remote-Control-RC-Quadcopter-p-913827.html?p=XL13046274452014069G

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