Best Drones for Beginners

Do you fancy trying out these drones that keep popping up all over your neighbourhood? It’s best that you buy your own drone, since breaking a mate’s drone can just lead to ruined friendship. And if you’re a beginner buying your first drone, you may want to focus on the following features:

Low Cost
Beginner’s Models
Training Modules
Easy to Fly
Long Flight Time
Find a Drone You Like

Low Cost

Don’t even think about buying a super expensive drone when you’re still new to the hobby. You’re paying for capabilities that you can’t fully take advantage of with your meagre skills. Besides, you may end up wrecking the drone after just a few days. Think of it as a wager—don’t bet money you can’t stand to lose.

So, keep the cost down to what you can really afford, but do try to find the most durable drone you can find for the money. This way, you don’t end up with a ruined mess just after a single crash. You may want to check the costs of replacement parts though.

Beginner’s Models

Some manufacturers make life easier for you by specifically labelling a particular drone model as their “beginner’s model”. You may want to limit yourself to these drones. Usually, the best ones for beginners are very small.

Also, look for a drone that’s labelled RTF. This means “ready to fly” out of the box. All you’ll need to do is to charge the batteries and you’re ready to fly the drone. What you don’t need is a drone with complicated assembly instructions. It’s too easy to get these wrong.

Get the ones with the return-to-home feature, and see if you can also get automated take-off as well.

Training Modules

If you can afford it, try to get a drone with several training modules and levels available. These can have a beginner’s level that teaches you the basics of the controls while the drone automatically stabilizes itself.

You then won’t have to buy a new drone once you’ve graduated from your newbie status, as this drone can accommodate your growing skills with intermediate and advanced levels.

Easy to Fly

You may want to read up on the customer reviews regarding how actually easy it will be to fly even a so-called beginner’s drone. The best ones for beginners will have customers gushing about their enjoyable experience flying the drone. The worst ones for you will be the drones with too many complaints about crashes and difficulties.

Long Flight Time

It’s nice if you can keep the drone in the air for a long time. But most of the time, the batteries in these drones last about 5 to 10 minutes. It’s great if they last longer, but you should have extra batteries on hand so you don’t end your flying lessons early.

Some of the better drones even have an automatic return to home feature when the batteries go low. Get this feature if you can, as normally you just get a warning when the battery power goes low.

Find a Drone You Like

All the other features don’t mean much if you end up hating the drone. Find one you like, so you can look forward to frequent drone flying adventures for many days to come.