Used GoPro Karma Core Quadcopter (Aircraft Only)

2018-11-09T12:48:04

Unless you are married to the Gropro black which is fine if you are because it has many other uses, but trying to put it in a drone was a huge mistake. This albatross is large and heavy so it takes a heavy expensive battery to get it off the ground. FYI you have to top the batteries off just before you fly to get a full 18 min of fly time. They seem to lose charge in just a few days on the shelf and very fast if left in the drone. For what you get for the price with extra batteries and insurance (best to get the insurance) there are a lot better and lighter drones with way longer fly times, distance and much better cameras out there. Instructions are minimal but it does come with a flight simulator built in to the controller. Once you are in the air it's a different story. The range is very very limited and with such a short battery life of 10 useful minutes by the time you get up and get going and get back and land. I knew before buying the Karma that there were no built in collision safeties but it will at times just land or crash on its own with no warning. There is a button to press once to return to take off spot or twice to too return the where you are. Be very careful with this button because if you happen to press it a third time or hold it a little to long the Karma will just land where ever it is and there is nothing you can do about it so it is best to always return and land manually. Luckily there is GPS on the controller screen so you can find the Karma and the pieces. Like I said there are no instructions. Customer service is a nightmare even if you bought their insurance. I spent a full hour on just one of the three chats answering so many detailed questions and uploading photos you would think that it was a commercial airline that crashed. They did finally send a new set of propellers and an arm. Again no replacement instructions so I had to search their web site for a video on how to replace the arm. Very first thing on the video was how to use the two tools required to change the arm. No tools were included so it was back to chat and request the tools to be sent (two weeks and they still aren't here.) Finally got a package but with only one of the two required tools so back to chat and have the tools resent. It's been over a month now since my first contact with GoPro and I still don't have an operating Drone. On the last note the gimbal that came with the package worked once and that was it, but I was more interested in the camera and taking arial high res raw images with the drone which turned out to be a huge disappointment.

KARL H.

2018-08-30T08:57:22

Perfect thanks Adorama

JORGE A.

2017-09-26T13:07:36

Love the ease of flying this drone and the fact that it is basically a flying camera as opposed to a drone with a camera attached coincidentally

Kwafo O.