Holy Stone HS700E 4K UHD Drone with EIS Anti Shake 130 FOV Camera for Adults, GPS Quadcopter with 5GHz FPV Transmission, Brushless Motor, Easy Auto Return Home, Follow Me and Outdoor Carrying Case

Good quality and excellent customer support
I purchased the Holy Stone 700E while it was on a Black Friday sale after reading many reviews. Also purchased the spare parts package for extra propellers and propeller guards upon recommendation of another purchaser. I am an amateur drone flyer; and I plan to use the drone for fun with grandkids.The HS700E build quality is high. It is easy to learn the transmitter controls as well as the app. This is due in large part to the very good instruction manual that comes with this drone. The controller has a screen that provides useful flight information. I have found it easy to pair this drone to the controller as well as to calibrate the compass. There are many flight features that can make this drone fun to fly – outdoors. These include Follow Me, Point of Interest and Way Point mode. Unfortunately collision detection is not included. Would be useful for both indoor and outdoor flying.The propeller guards help to mitigate the lack of collision detection. The guards firmly attach to the arms; and provide a fair amount of propeller protection should the drone come into contact with an object during flight. The extra set of propellers will reduce any anxiety when flying the drone. Particularly when grandkids are having the fun.The weight of the HS700E puts it in a category that requires FAA registration and remote id function. FAA registration is not difficult to accomplish. I completed the Recreational UAS Safety Test without any trouble; and I am not good at taking test. I learned a lot about safety going through these processes; and the HS700E features and quality are superior to toys on the market.Remote id functionality is not included internally with this drone; however, the FAA lists it as being compliant. This might be because Holy Stone markets an external remote module; and I found that their customer support will work with you while making a new purchase.I found the Holy Stone customer support team to be far superior to other customer support services that I have needed to contact. During a ‘chat’ my connection was lost. The team member reached out to me via email to continue our ‘discussion’. She understood my issue; and readily presented a very satisfactory solution. On a subsequent call I reached call waiting and opted to end call. Much to my surprise my call was returned a short time later. It’s comforting to find a truly responsive customer support service.

I wish I had bought THIS drone FIRST!
My first outdoor drone was a HS 720G which was too expensive for my novice flight skills. It got banged up all the time. A free fall landing killed the gimbal and a 2nd Kudzu crash lost it permanently. This drone on the other hand was exciting to pull out of the foam case! It’s rigid X body legs look very strong and I can see why other reviews say It’s wind resistant because unlike 720g this drone’s body has no sharp edges! The 700e has an almost silicone slick skin, all aerodynamic curves and the long hanging legs & camera lower it’s center of gravity! The Propellers are easy to put on (push down & turn like safety bottle caps!) and take off following small markings on each prop. The various LED color signals below the motors are new to me and will need memorizing! I was a little disappointed in that the app doesn’t show the Google aerial photos but I was only using a 4ghz phone so I hope an iPhone/5ghz WiFi will unlock the full Google earth photo map so waypoints can be done safely in my dense residential area!! All though older YouTube reviews state the 700e ships with TWO batteries as mine was discounted by Amazon I didn’t expect to get 2 and I didn’t but at first I need to stay focused on 1 good, successfull flight without hurrying – Quality before Quantity!! When those are achieved I will update this review further.