Bwine F7GB2 Drone with 4K Camera for Adults, 3-Axis Gimbal, 9800FT Transmission Range, FAA compliance, 50Mins Flight Time with 2 Batteries, GPS Auto Return+Follow Me+Beginner Mode

This drone is a great value for the price point. I was interested in having a drone but not interested in spending a thousand dollars for a pro model. So, I ordered what I thought would be a good intro to drones, and clearly made a good decision. This drone is easy to set up and easy to get started. The down side for me, personally, is that it takes a little hand/eye coordination and an adventerous mentality. I have the latter but not so much the former. Regardless of my personal learning curve, it has been so much fun practicing. It’s a rugged and smart device and relates well with my iPhone 13 mini smartphone. I’m blown away by the videos and pics that I have taken with this drone, with such high quality. It’s exhilarating flying, and even talking about my ‘flights’ gets my heart racing. So, here’s the icing on the cake: I’m flying the thing and I hadn’t realize that one of the blades was severed during one of my numerous crashes, which by the way are getting fewer and fewer. The drone was taking a weird path towards trees and a brook and, of course, I panicked and steered the wrong way, even more towards the trees. The drone got caught up in branches, stalled and descended to the ground, right into a shallow brook that runs on my property line. Unfortunately, it landed in about 5 inches of water, which although easily retreivable, ultimately ruined parts of the drone’s electronics and killed the battery. I called Bwine’s support number and simply wanted to know the most economical way to get back up and running again from my own stupid sequence of events. They asked me to send a video of what damage had been done to the drone. Essentially, only two of the propellers worked after my accident. I sent them a video of the semi-lame drone trying to achieve lift-off, and without further ado, they said they were going to send me a “bare drone” (meaning no peripherals, blades, batteries, bag, etc). What I received was much more than a bare drone and enough parts/accessories to get me up and running again. So, I continue my droning adventures! I absolutely love this “toy”. I don’t know if I’ll elevate to the “pro” model and invest 5 times the cost of this one, and not sure that I would want to. This is a great little little investment that is generating hours of fun. My friends and neighbors are just as enthralled as I am with this little device, and actually think that I’m a good pilot! I swear, if you’re thinking about getting into the ‘droning life’, this is a great jumping off point, because it’s a great device and it’s a great company to deal with, with awesome customer support. I totally agree with the other positive reports about the Bwine F7 Mini drone.

First of all, I have to say I’m a 70 year old fairly new flyer. I grew up in the model airplane era and frankly, never acquired the “video-game” skills of today’s young people. But what can I say? I love this drone!

The first thing I noticed was the packaging. This thing was packed like it was going to the Queen of England. VERY nice intern product package. Inside an extra sturdy, nice-looking inner package. All inside a sturdy shipping box. If the drone inside was as classy as the packaging, it already had me peaked!

Very easy to setup. I will admit I watched almost every Bwine F7BG2 video out there. But it was easy and intuitive to setup the drone for flying. The hardest part was the excitement while waiting for the batteries to charge!

Following all the setup instructions in the very helpful User Guide, the little video that comes with the Bwine APP, and a few tips from practiced YouTube Bwine flyers, I had it up, calibrated, connected and flying within 5 minutes. Easy-peasy…

Off and flying! It was very intuitive in beginner mode, and so easy to fly that it was a quick promotion to ‘full control’ mode. I have to admit I wandered left, right, to and fro for the first flight or two, but that was just my lack of experience. First flight, a success.

As for the drone itself? It behaved and responded just as I wanted it to. Came right home on low battery power, settled down easy within inches of the take-off point. The controls are very quick and responsive. It took a bit of practice to keep things steady at my learning pace, because the drone just wants to FLY! The battery life seemed a bit ‘short’ to me (maybe it was because I was so into the flying). Maybe 20 minutes or less. Another quirk was the limit of distance between my iPhone’s WI-FI signal and the drone itself. At about 600-800 yards out (in fairness, blocked by a lot of trees) the first person video on the iPhone started fuzzing out. I suppose I could have gone further, but didn’t want to lose the drone on my 2nd flight. The battery started getting low, RTH kicked in and within a few minutes the drone landed right where I took off. A note here: I noted frequently during the flight that the responsiveness of the drone would ‘skip’ for a second or two. Not sure why, but maybe something to do with my iPhone, the distance, trees, etc. Not enough to mess with the operation, but just enough to be tad bit annoying.

The video quality is outstanding. 4K is so clear, I could read my t-shirt easily at 2 yards out. It took very clear stills and pretty smooth videos – better than I honestly expected.

I did have to interact with Bwine support which was very easy process and they were pleasant, responsive and got right to the issue. I didn’t have to cry, beg, or contact them 40 times. They were right on it – NOW!

I have owned 3 drones, now. I have to say that this my be my favorite. Is it a top-of-the-line Mavic or DJI? I don’t know, I haven’t flown them. But it is heads above anything I’ve used so far. Easily worth every penny for it’s usability, quality construction, ease of operation and professionally packed features.

After a freak incident upon landing where my drone became sentient for a moment and flew away, i contacted Bwine Customer Service who was more then happy and able to assist with complete drone recovery. Logs shared to see what the error was in that drone to prevent rare incident from happening again.

I have had a few more hours to test flying around, just my yard in full beginner mode that limits height and distance. So i can get use to having my first drone. It is a capable little drone the video connection is not lagged and once you get the camera settings right it takes a really nice photo.

I would recommend this as a first drone to anyone that wants a drone and never had or flown one much before. The controls respond fast to correct or move drone to safer altitude or distance from objects in sudden wind sheer that is common near here. When hovering it stabilize well for still photos.

Since I live on a mountain and there is no cell service here i worried about the GPS, however it connects fast and has not lost connection once to GPS satellites.

I will say, since it is a beginner drone, get extra propellers, it does come with a full extra set but i went into a lilac bush and it bent all the A propellers so i only have B replacements now. Only a few days to get a shipment of new ones but i like to have spares on the ready and would recommend having more then just the ones you get in the pack for first time drone learning.