Happymodel - Mobula 7

Depends what you want it for. Pure fun and don’t care about cinematography? Get a Cetus pro kit. Or a ELRS Mobula 6(inside) 7(hybrid) or 8(outside) with a ELRS radiomaster boxer controller. If you care more about cinematography then get a Mini 2 SE. if you get DJI care for 50$ a year they will replace it if you crash or lose it. I started off with Mini2 Se, realized it wasn’t enough for what I wanted it for. Bought a 5” FPV drone, way too much power and crashed it all the time. Then went to a Mobula 7. Instantly got so much better.

Stage 1: Get the radio and 2x 18650 batteries first, then buy Liftoff on STEAM. Stage 2: Watch this video series and get used to flying around in Liftoff until you at least get the feel of how to move a drone around without crashing. [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwoDb7WF6c8lCKhQOTy-Vb9LfW0VAIrTP](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwoDb7WF6c8lCKhQOTy-Vb9LfW0VAIrTP) Stage 3: Buy the goggles and either a Mobula 6, Mobula 7, Meteor 65, Meteor 65 Pro, Meteor 75, or Meteor 75 Pro. The drone should come with a couple of batteries and a little USB charger, which will do for starters. The Eachine 800D is recommended because the screen detaches and becomes a monitor. Stage 4: Your first upgrade will probably either be new propellers or a new frame (if you crashed a lot), or additional batteries (if you didn't crash a lot and want to fly more.) In either case, leave yourself enough room in your budget to repair your drones.

yes, I was not thinking indoors to be honest. Mobula 7 is better for that.

This, and if you decide to go FPV get a controller like a Radio master pocket or Jumper T-Lite (elrs version) and start in the sims. Then het a Mobula7 or Betafpv Air. For camera drone, DJI mini’s

Great combination, but I would choose the Mobula 7.

Mobula 6 is great indoor, Mobula 7 is great indoor and outdoor (backyard) flying. Mobula 8 is ok indoor, and great outdoor (backyard / park).

"Several safety features saving a noob's ass probably more than once" No they dont. If you crash into something, it happens in a fraction of a second. No rescue button will help. What will help is a sturdy drone that can take a beating, and the avata 2 is not such a drone. It is very brittle and on top is is absolutely unrepairable. You have to send it to dji after every minor crash. Every incident will take time and be expensive, even with dji care. And if you want to have fun you will crash often. A real carbon fpv drone will survive the most crashes or just need a new prop. Most beginner friendly solution is a tinywhoop like the mobula 7. It costs as much as one battery for the avata, it is practically indistructabl, and for 30$ you get enough batterys to fly nonstop.

I'd start with a tiny whoop, like mobula 7. It's a lot cheaper and safer to make the beginner mistakes with one of those. A 5" fpv drone can shred your face off, if you make a mistake. First get a radio and practise on a simulator. You can get the other stuff later.

Fully concur with u/Ich_bin_schlecht. Go with Avata if you have zero interest in advancing to freestyle flying because it has a well-known yaw washout issue, and it's not a particularly responsive machine. Flight time is around 8 minutes. Picture quality is best in the business. If you plan to grow in the hobby, skip it and start with something more survivable to crashing like a BetaFPV Meteor 65 or HappyModel Mobula7. Be warned there's quite a learning curve with setup, throttle control and then acro mode, as u/Fat_Cat6969 alluded to. Flight times are around 3 minutes. Picture quality is like old VHS tapes.

Good drone? Yes. Good beginner drone? Maybe not. Too much power is dangerous for everyone. Easy to loose too, I had beginners almost flying away mobula7 which is nowhere near big or powerful

I bought this kit and loved it. The digital is clear and crisp. The batteries are decent, and flight times are around 3-4 minutes with average flight. I found the stock tune very nice and controllable. The frame did break after 4-5 pretty nasty crashes. I moved the equipmemt to a mobula 7 frame which has been great. The aio fc lasted about 100 packs and 10 pretty decent crashes. I moved to a happymodel x12 aio 5 in 1 and the 1s walksnail went to a 2 inch build. This does much better with battery life. The included motors have been bullet proof as far as I can tell. I would suggest moving to gemfam 3 blade props for this build and the quad feels much more steady and this upgrade is cheap. After flying this thing and various other 1 s quads the provided batteries plus 3 extra that I've purchased are just starting to show age after 8 months of use. I'm partial to the cost advantage of analog so my pick would be a mobula 7 with analog and 99$ pair of box goggles and skip the pocket and buy a radio master boxer instead. I still use walksnail so the goggles are worth it, but don't support reciever modules so they are only able to be used with walksnail vtx's

Search the group this is asked daily, generally you wanna start with a tiny whoop like a mobula 6 or 7, some cheap goggles and a RM pocket, get a controller first and start in the simulators, welcome to the hobby! As for analog and digital I personally find analog is fine but I'm also cheap AF

The betafpv air75 are nice and cheap and work great. Newbeedrone make great 75mm as well. Mobula7 is a bit old now. Just scale the throttle when inside, should be fine.

While I had an easy time breaking mine, (mobula 7, flying outdoors, just the frame mainly ) it did no property damage, and was cheaper to fix! On the other hand, I’ve spent $100s rebuilding my 3” and $900 on body damage when I crashed upside down on someone’s car 😩

Try a different model. Some seem a little floaty, others more brick like. I prefer the Mobula 7, which seems closest to my Air75.

As other comments say, don't get a kit. They are low quality and generally don't have much for spare parts available. Buy a bnf instead, they are very easy to setup with a tutorial. What i recommend is... Transmitter: Radiomaster Boxer. You will never need another transmitter, it's amazing. For a lower budget, a Radiomaster Pocket is good, but you will probably upgrade eventually. Goggles: Eachine ev800d. You will eventually replace them, but they are cheap beginner goggles that are good quality. Drone: Depends on your use case. Mobula 8 for only outdoor flying, a 65mm whoop like the mobula 6 for only indoor flying, and the Mobula 7 for a mix of the two. I personally use the Mobula 8 and it's amazing, handles light wind like a champ. Also pretty durable. You will also need batteries, no bnf drone includes them. They vary per drone, so make sure to research and pick the right ones. Also don't forget a charger! The vifly whoopstor is a good 1s charger, and the vifly toothstor is a good 2s charger. Most importantly, buy the transmitter first and get a simulator for pc. I use liftoff, and it taught me the basics. If you make the mistake of trying to fly acro on a drone without sim time, you will end up smashing your drone into the ground at full speed and shattering it. I speak from experience 🤣 Hope this helps!

Id avoid kits since you'll end up replacing everything if you want to grow in the hobby. I'd suggest Radiomaster pocket EV800D Mobula7 or meteor75 - a mob6 or 65 is better for inside, but will be tossed around in the wind. The 7 or 75 is ok at both. Edit: nothing cheap is good at filming, at this point he should just focus on learning to fly. Once he does that, you can buy a cinelog25 or similar that will hold a gopro or thumb pro

What do you mean taking videos and photos? FPV? Mobula6 or 7. Taking like good quality (1080p+) videos and photos? DJI anything. FPV drones are mostly for recreational flying, cruising, freestyle, racing. Stuff like that. Yeah you can make videos and stuff out of them sure, but the quality won't be there if that's what you're looking for. Cinematic drones, camera drones, or whatever you want to call them that DJI seems to focus on will take much better videos and pictures. TinyWhoops aren't really made for photography or videography though. If you do want something small, like someone else suggested, DJI Neo. DJI Avata 2 if you want to FPV and take decent video/pictures, but it's around 50% bigger.

If I were to start fpv from scratch today, I’d get the radio master pocket, cheap knockoff ev800d from AliExpress, and the mobula7. While the ev800d is shipping, I would practice in velocidrone until I’m pretty comfortable. By the time the goggles come, I’m sure I’ll be at that point. That would cost around 60 (pocket) + 15 (pocket batteries) + 115 (mobula7) + 65 (ev800d) + a set of batteries (maybe 25?) which I think is 280 total The pocket is nice to have even if you upgrade later because it’s so small. I started with a tx16s and ended up getting a pocket for when I don’t want something huge. The mobula7 is a great whoop to fly outdoors. Indoors can be flyable too but a little more difficult. The ev800d is good enough. The knockoffs (non-eachine) don’t have actual diversity, but in my personal experience, it’s been plenty good enough for me and I get pretty decent video signal. They’re handy to have as a spare too, and they come apart to act as a standalone monitor. You can also get the actual eachine goggles if you’d prefer to spend the extra money, and you will get better performance. They’re around 100 or so. The idea behind going for the cheap knockoffs is that you will probably upgrade the goggles if you like fpv soon after starting (maybe even go digital), and it keeps the cost low for goggles that you will eventually only use as loaners Everything in that kit will be fairly useful even down the line when you get more gear

For a first drone, I would start with mobula 6/7 or air 75. These are small drones you can fly in your backyard or a park. You will get up to speed really fast with them. After that you can buy a 5inch or cinewhoop.