Happy with mine, I've had a few crashes due to connection loss, this is disconcerting. Thankfully the SOLO has proven to be quite resilient. My Hex would have been busted to pieces in a comparable crash. 3DR support has been above standard. I'm patiently waiting for the pre-ordered gimbal because cinema videography is a priority. Being a quad, I miss the piece of mind having the redundancy of the hex. Lose a motor or prop in flight on the hex and the flight computer compensates the other motors to maintain controllable flight.
Portability is nice and had much to do with me going with a gimballed quad. With my custom hex you need a degree in lipo batteries and charging, RF radio and antenna ops, downlink and bluetooth and so on, and a few separate work tables for giant chargers and brick sized batteries and all the other equipment.
With the SOLO I put a couple of batteries in the case with the quad and controller and I'm off.
However, while flying I'm constantly holding my breath that it just doesn't decide to take off and do it's own thing while I'm trying to get that shot. I have a Blade 350 quad with a GoPro4 black sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic, filming the fishes, because it just decided to scream up to about 150 feet and fly out away from the beach, then knife -edge right into the water way out beyond the breakers. I just stood there holding the controller dumbfounded.
I, therefore, now am very particular about where I fly SOLO, keeping it well within it's documented limitations, in LOS, away from people, trees, buildings, etc. Also waiting other systems for the expansion bay that could provide a parachute system, or optic flow sensor.
Portability is nice and had much to do with me going with a gimballed quad. With my custom hex you need a degree in lipo batteries and charging, RF radio and antenna ops, downlink and bluetooth and so on, and a few separate work tables for giant chargers and brick sized batteries and all the other equipment.
With the SOLO I put a couple of batteries in the case with the quad and controller and I'm off.
However, while flying I'm constantly holding my breath that it just doesn't decide to take off and do it's own thing while I'm trying to get that shot. I have a Blade 350 quad with a GoPro4 black sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic, filming the fishes, because it just decided to scream up to about 150 feet and fly out away from the beach, then knife -edge right into the water way out beyond the breakers. I just stood there holding the controller dumbfounded.
I, therefore, now am very particular about where I fly SOLO, keeping it well within it's documented limitations, in LOS, away from people, trees, buildings, etc. Also waiting other systems for the expansion bay that could provide a parachute system, or optic flow sensor.