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buy popular demand okay no one actually requested this but I enjoyed making that

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video we did a couple weeks ago about the parrot bbop and I want to make more

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quad videos so here's my video about the Blade 350

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qx3 a video about flying that should be

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released around the time that I'm landing in Asia which is going to mean

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some unusual content over the next little while

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here Corsair h80i GT and h100i GTX all-in-one

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liquid coolers make your system look better and run cooler too click my face

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to learn more so let's start with the unboxing

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experience something that normally isn't that relevant to a product review but in

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this case really sets the tone for the rest of the video the first thing that

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stood out to me was a wow horiz and hobby did a great job of packaging this

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sucker all but the most determined parcel carriers would fail to break your

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drone in shipping I'm sure and B I am

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super impressed that all the parts even the doublea batteries for the

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transmitter are included in the ready toly drone plus camera kit but Horizon

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has some serious work to do on the user friendliness if they want to access the

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same kind of customer that parrot is targeting with a product like the bbop

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little details like the threepiece

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battery charger versus parrot's friendly

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socketed one and the three separate p pieces of documentation required to

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actually use the product a quick start guide with the assembly pre-flight and

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most of the inflight instructions another booklet with the interpretation

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key for the LED signals that the 350 qx3

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uses to communicate status updates and error messages to you and a third full

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manual that isn't included in the box so you can only access it online and that

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has no obvious reference made to it in the other documentation something that

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was particularly frustrating for me since it's it's the only place you can

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find some pretty critical information more on that later first we'll do a

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physical tour of the unit the design is very different from the bbop it's

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significantly larger for one thing and has a very hobbyist grade feel to it

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every part goes together predictably and seems like it would be easily modifiable

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or swappable out of the box it includes four brushless motors a controller and

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receiver board onboard GPS with an antenna mask for better accuracy an

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accelerometer compass and pressure sensor and if you get the AP or aerial

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photography model an integrated 130° fov

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12 megapixel camera that shoots 1080p 60fps video on a 3axis brushless

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motorized gimbal with its own Wi-Fi hotspot for realtime firstperson

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monitoring with a smartphone that you clip to the controller that promises

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some seriously stable aerial footage so

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for my first flight I went through the whole pre-flight routine including

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compass and accelerometer calibration which involves toggling some switches on

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the transmitter then flipping the Drone around until it makes happy noises at

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you and lets you know everything is a okay I faced North for takeoff blah blah

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blah blah and then I found myself wondering do I have to do this every

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time Horizon tells me once I asked them

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that it's only if you move geographically or change the weight of the unit for some of the calibrations

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but I guess I've made my point now about what hobbyist grade means to the outof

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Box experience so I'm not going to complain about the manual anymore but it wasn't in there so let's talk about

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whether hobbyist grade flight characteristics make up for it I started

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out with Smart Mode flight where you stand still and the right stick makes

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the Drone move relative to the operator rather than relative to its own

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orientation so forward means away from you as opposed to the front of the Drone

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super duper boring so I switched to AP mode in like a minute but I can see how

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smart mode would be handy if your drone was for example far away and you

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couldn't properly see its orientation in spite of the LEDs on the Bott that

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should be a pretty good clue as to which way it's facing I mean when it gets

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really far away it's hard to see that um although if for whatever reason Smart

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Mode doesn't work for that you can use return home which works really well you

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just flip the switch and Boop it comes back as long as it hasn't lost its GPS

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signal in AP mode I was able to have a lot more fun and I made some immediate

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observations after my first flight the first of which being that flying it is

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fun this thing is quieter thanks to its larger props and much more acrobatic out

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of the box than the be Bop and if you have any RC experience at all you'll

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really appreciate the way it allows you to take control during a turn or a

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sudden maneuver rather than trying to compensate for you with an onboard

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computer something that caused some scary feeling like I'm out of control

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moments with the bbop where I was kind of fighting with the onboard computer

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but the flip side of that is that the 350 qx3 helps you a lot less with things

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like maintaining altitude while accelerating or turning in require Ires

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you to manually compensate with the left stick to avoid smoking the ground if

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you're flying low which sorry excuse

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me now the next thing I noticed is that while the video feed range frankly

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blows I tried to hold it together your smile is what did it the next thing I

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noticed is that while the video feed range frankly blows chunks compared to

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parrot's Sky controller with its baller antenna array thing the latency is is

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much better and thanks to its real physical gimbal versus digital gimbal

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it's much easier to fly firstperson view with the third is that a blinking RGB

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LED on the rear bumper is not as good a

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way to communicate with the pilot as a dedicated app so at about 13 minutes of

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flying when it started to descend on its own it took me a second to realize that

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the code on the back was letting me know that it was done good thing I wasn't

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over a body of water at the time since I hadn't memorized all the bloody code yet

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and finally I found myself missing the dedicated app again when I realized the

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Drone wouldn't go higher than 20 M with the outof the-box configuration and I

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had to go hook it up to a PC with the included USB dongle in order to

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reprogram it a process that is only outlined in the online manual

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fortunately the process is relatively straightforward and the app is

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surprisingly intuitive and stable you can reconfigure your max range your max

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altitude calibrate stuff and see some diagnostic data thumbs up so with that

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fixed the rest of my flights let's talk about those once I figured out that the

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protective housing comes off the camera for the gimbal to operate derp the

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camera footage is really really really stable like awesome stable photos look

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great and panning video shots that were basically unusable on the parrot look

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fantastic its low light performance is also better than the bbops with less

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blockiness and 60fps recording is a welcome upgrade for fast motion but for

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$500 I am a little disappointed with the overall image there is so much

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noticeable aliasing on straight lines that it almost looks like upscaled 720p

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or even lower and I found myself wishing that there was an easy way to

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Frankenstein a GoPro onto the gimbal even if it meant losing the live feed

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which leads pretty well into the conclusion what do you get what does it

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leave to be desired well what does it

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leave you get a prosumer SL hobbyist grade

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drone and everything that comes with that better modifiability than a

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consumer targeted device more direct control of the hardware you're flying

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but it also assumes that you have some prior knowledge that general consumers

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are unlikely to have and is less forgiving of mistakes I crashed the bbop

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more than half a dozen times dinking around with it because thanks to its

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foam construction and lightweight it felt almost indestructible the 350 qx3

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should be treated with much more care I cracked the landing gear and knocked the

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camera off the gimbal on my first Crash from about 9 ft up so my final word then

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is if you pick one of these up and treat it right it'll treat you right in return

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oh and I'd also probably recommend checking out the two axis GoPro gimbal

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Mount that I uh didn't get in time for this review but I'm hoping to check out

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