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Several things are certainly on the "missing" list for the Mini & GoFly App... several of these will most likely bubble up in near future.
I will say it's a smooth indoor flyer, able to sit in my kitchen and easily fly it FPV down the halls, up the stairs, into upper halls. The Tello wasn't bad but not near as smooth, and the Spark even with AO turned off was less stable climbing the stairs and maintaining minimal drift. All great little indoor flyers, and enjoyable to attempt FPV through them all... the Mini in my opinion does the Indoor flying better. The Spark clearly outshines it outdoors in performance, but the Mini does continue to fly long past most with it's 26-30 minute flights.
Indoor Radio reception remained very smooth compared to other two... none were poor, but the Mini remain flicker free and appears low latency.
Little Toughy -
I was experiementing, and flying between my kitchen nook table and it's chandelier light dangly stuff... about 10" of vertical space between table junk & dangly. Something on table caused the Mini to climb a few inches and put it's props into the light's dangly stuff (glass & metal links strips). I thought it was going to spit the Mini out instantly, but it sat there and beat the dangly and even broke one of the metal loop links. Finally got it lower down and move... examining the Mini later shows prop edges are now rough & uneven. I was impressed how the little motors didn't immediately stall out and drop the Mini. Later during another cat pursuit up the stairs, I turned a bit late and struck some of my Wife's wall decorations... it chewed a bit and again resisted going down, but not visually seeing the position I moved the wrong direction and downed the Mini. Again the props took a little more roughness, no breaks or major nicks... just not a smooth edge. The motor's stall reaction seems higher than any small craft I've experimented with indoors.
This might be a nice little craft as it's FW & App develop over the next 6-12 months.
I will say it's a smooth indoor flyer, able to sit in my kitchen and easily fly it FPV down the halls, up the stairs, into upper halls. The Tello wasn't bad but not near as smooth, and the Spark even with AO turned off was less stable climbing the stairs and maintaining minimal drift. All great little indoor flyers, and enjoyable to attempt FPV through them all... the Mini in my opinion does the Indoor flying better. The Spark clearly outshines it outdoors in performance, but the Mini does continue to fly long past most with it's 26-30 minute flights.
Indoor Radio reception remained very smooth compared to other two... none were poor, but the Mini remain flicker free and appears low latency.
Little Toughy -
I was experiementing, and flying between my kitchen nook table and it's chandelier light dangly stuff... about 10" of vertical space between table junk & dangly. Something on table caused the Mini to climb a few inches and put it's props into the light's dangly stuff (glass & metal links strips). I thought it was going to spit the Mini out instantly, but it sat there and beat the dangly and even broke one of the metal loop links. Finally got it lower down and move... examining the Mini later shows prop edges are now rough & uneven. I was impressed how the little motors didn't immediately stall out and drop the Mini. Later during another cat pursuit up the stairs, I turned a bit late and struck some of my Wife's wall decorations... it chewed a bit and again resisted going down, but not visually seeing the position I moved the wrong direction and downed the Mini. Again the props took a little more roughness, no breaks or major nicks... just not a smooth edge. The motor's stall reaction seems higher than any small craft I've experimented with indoors.
This might be a nice little craft as it's FW & App develop over the next 6-12 months.
) I'll stop posting now.
