#Please critique my first ever drone shopping list!

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winged forge
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Here are the specs of what could be my first ever drone. this is a very rough draft open to all types of criticism. please change my mind if needed lol. thank you

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hot cloak
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get cnhl batteries

winged forge
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btw should make it clear: forgot to mention the actual camera not just the vista. itd be a runcam wasp. although im really considering just getting a xi35 with walksnail.

hot cloak
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walksnail is great

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tbh if you don’t already have the goggles i’d say go for it

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are you sure you want a cinewhoop?

nova ravine
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OddityRC sells the fantastic GNB batteries on their site

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You can get those

winged forge
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the issue is .. itd be much more expensive would it not? all the walksnail gogs are much more then the goggles 2 . my budget is roughly 1100 pretty strictly.

nova ravine
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The Walksnail goggles are quite a bit more yes

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but they're also a whole lot more capable

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There's often sales on them on AliE

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but they're 450 otherwise, 430 for the XI35

winged forge
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what price u think i can get it em cheap on ali

nova ravine
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Someone said they got it from an AliE flash sale for 365 the other day

winged forge
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should i perhaps go a route where i purchase a cheaper drone to allow me to confidently buy the best walksnail goggles and good boxer radio?

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i dont think i should do that…

nova ravine
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450 goggles, 430 drone, 120 boxer, 70 charger and then the rest batteries

winged forge
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im considering buying the goggles and controller first… getting used to fpv on a simulator, then maybe christmas time once i have more money either buy the xi35 or something even bigger

winged forge
nova ravine
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don't need to do hota

winged forge
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i want the thing that will decrease my chance of burning my house down the most lol

nova ravine
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well of course

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but you can still get a cheaper charger, it's just bigger

winged forge
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do u think itd be wise to get the drone later? idk it its normal to start with the simulator

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its just i really do want the goggles x. i just need to look at my savings

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jobless till september with much saved up but i just want to be a lil careful

nova ravine
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wait for black friday and such

winged forge
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thats what ill do then. btw, is the real draw in for cinewhoops the footage flight? Like do people choose whoops over other quads because they would prefer to make cinematic shots over great freestyle? Why do people want whoops and why wouldnt they

nova ravine
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and around objects

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the guards around the propellors are pretty much only detrimental to the flight performance

winged forge
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i dont plan on doing highspeed freestyle shots. i just want something to suffice both indoor and outdoors around people (most the time)

nova ravine
winged forge
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another thing is i thought itd be a good way (incase of the inevitable crash) to learn repairing/soldering n such

nova ravine
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oh yeah absolutely

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but with good gear and some practice boards anyone can get soldering down

winged forge
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ya thats true but i wanted to jump into the hobby with something with a great frame and simpler design like that. diagnosing an issue and on the drone and possibly fixing it is something id assume as a desirable asset. something id assume that you would not learn from anything else besides a drone itself. the oddities seem extremely durable and simpler compared to other quads

nova ravine
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they're kind of the originals

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The quad comes with an AIO which isn't really super simple as it makes everything 1 board

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but it's all the same concepts

winged forge
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they are such a quality company it seems. although ive never heard of them till i got to this discord. not much quantity but that doesnt matter

nova ravine
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and they don't send in samples to the big ol' referral youtube channels it seems