Parrot Swing: a hybrid between drone and rc plane

Parrot drones are really complicated to qualify. Parrot mini drums are expensive and I have never been convinced, although I can not say they are of poor quality or anything like that. They just ... stay halfway to everything. But today with the Parrot Swing I will not say that it is a poorly finished product or indefinite, for nothing, I will defend it and I will tell you because this product has finally managed to convince me from the beginning. Go for it!

The Parrot Swing is presented to us as a hybrid halfway between a conventional quadricopter (the typical drones we bring to Mundodron) and a rc initiation airplane. But of course ... how does this blend? Here comes the real good deed of the boys of Parrot. The Parrot Swing wants you to have the ease of the flight start and landing of a drone and the speed and aerial show of an RC plane. That is the key. And he gets it ... up to a point, but he succeeds.

Discard to fly this device in days with more than 5 km / h, that of course. It's not a plane / drone prepared for major complications, of course. But if we have the necessary meteorological conditions, we will see how this mixture is a success. Starting the flight for a rookie of this drone has no mystery: you give the button of his physical command (very important and novelty in the mini drones of Parrot) and starts the flight as a conventional quadricopter was. If you want to move little by little and precisely you use the movement sticks and little more, but if you want to catch speed ... then you give the levers (a lever is to go in one direction and the other lever because otherwise) and You begin to move gradually as if it were an RC plane.

Parrot Swing: The hybrid between drone and rc plane

It is not very fast, clearly, but the combination of both types of flights and the ease of starting a flight in quadricopter mode, fly like a rc plane and then leave it in quadricopter to land in the exact place you want ... is a whole Wonder for those who do not want to complicate life too much.

The speed as well as many things are configurable through our smartphone, being an all control panel interesting to touch basic elements of the flight of our Parrot Swing. Of course you can fly without having to put the control knob, which I loved, because you do not always want to use the smartphone or simply do not want to spend the battery.

In short, a hybrid between drone and rc airplane very fun and convincing. Highly recommended for the sector started or who likes this kind of gadgets so curious. If you are already very involved in this world (both drones and planes ...) it is true that it can stay quite short, since it does not go deep in any of the aspects.

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The dron applied to the audiovisual sector: Tarsso's book on quadricopters

On November 30, Professor Francisco Javier Torres Simón will present his new book on drones in Juguetrónica (Madrid) at 19:00. So far everything is correct, a new book about drones to study when we spend our good euros on certificates foreseeable expired to have AESA content. OKAY. But this book at least ... caught my attention once I started to investigate. The first thing was that the author is one of the teachers where I studied the career ... Look! Interesting, but then I keep looking and I say ... WTF? This is Tarsso? The racing drone pilot ????? And here is what I found most interesting: the mixture of knowledge and points of view of Francis.

The book deals with the typical points of the different manuals that are being distributed to help impart the classes in the different ATOS (schools) on drones. Points like the principles of flight, meteorology, communications ... are the ones that we are going to see in the first half of the book, the common thing in these manuals. It is well explained and easily understandable both for people who are going to study the subject by what has been said above or as an amateur, neither the language nor the complexity make it complicated for anyone in this first part. In addition they are dotted with interesting and infrequent chapters such as those related to simulators, not too common in this type of books.

If it had been here ... nothing new under the sun. An interesting book and well explained to be able to read it to continue deepening the hobby or to torture us to hit book with the boys of AESA, but no, here does not end the point. The grace of the book is his vision of the audiovisual with drones. As I said, Tarsso (Torres Simón, as we know him in the faculty) is professor of the Faculty of Communication of the University of Seville and that vision halfway between academicism and the point of view of a professional drones "a So anomalous "makes this book stand out among the others written in Spanish.

If the first part is the points that AESA wants us to get in the head to get the theoretical certificate seasoned with some wink to hobby lovers, in the second part we have an express vision of the audiovisual world. Very interesting for the newbies and justito for those who have been in this world for some time. But if you come from new ... the truth is that it is a great summary that, beyond making you content with what you learn, encourages you to continue to deepen in each of the audiovisual aspects that is playing.

In short, a book that if you want to know basic concepts about this world (and not so basic ... what AESA considers what is basic in reality) and start making your pinitos in the world of the flying cameras, because it can become quite interesting. Anyway, without further ado, I say goodbye to this post. Ciao!

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Review of the LishiToys L6055: The drone / cheap RC car

When you encounter drones supposedly "hybrid" between drone and RC car solo be wary. This is because when you have to do the review of a drone like the Lishitoys L6055 you have to keep in mind at all times that we are, especially, before a quadricopter and that as an added have put 4 wheels so that you can do the grace of Occasionally. I say, because the conclusion of what I found this drone "on wheels" has been really surprising, as it has been able to stand out for many things ... but not for being a good drone.

I'm going to set aside the part of the car and I'm going to focus on the "flying object" first. The Lishitoys L6055 arises as a drone with a strange aesthetic, of course, but not as innovative as to have not seen other models of the style and know that you can get good drones (a clear example would be the Syma X9, Is another drone with wheels). But of course ... not all drones behave in the same way, and the LishiToys L6055 once you start flying it you realize that it is not a bad drone ... but that is excessively slow.

And there is the problem, we have a drone that has a good control, a range greater than 50 meters, a battery that lasts about 7 and 9 minutes (something very normal and that is extinguished by swapping the batteries) but that is too quiet , Even in its fastest mode. It is too quiet even for the initiation sector, a slight wind breeze is already going to be a problem to control this drone, being somewhat complicated to tolerate, since small gusts are uncontrollable.

This drone has more flight modes and such as the barometer, which allows you to control the height very accurately. And I'm sorry to have to criticize both this drone, since its height control and the resistance of this drone to the blows (although it's nothing to be out of this world) if they meet their goal. But of course ... when a drone can not fight with a little air ... you have to rule out many things, of course.

The drone with a built-in RC car

At this point is where if this drone had been a good drone I would have clapped my ears. In this section I believe that it fulfills more than enough with its purpose. Of course, judging it as a RC car, I would have to say it is clumsy, rough, bad enough ... but as a drone, because it seems to me the best jobs I've seen on the market these days. That's why I'm so sorry to have to be so hard on this drone, because if I had been a quicker drone we would have one of the best hybrids on the market, without a doubt.

In short, this is a drone / car rc that tries many things but it stays half of all. It is not precisely the best choices on the market. If you are looking for a hybrid of this style, I recommend that you look at the Syma X9 analysis. That drone if it complies with everything interesting enough, but this ... forget that the first thing is to be a good quadricopter.

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