Bebop Drone - First Lift Off and Test Flight

I think I mentioned somewhere in this blog that I have acquired a Bebop Drone. It must have been somewhere just after Christmas last year. Anyway, apart from taking it out of its box to check the box contents and to calibrate it, I have not really engaged it in a proper Test Flight. I did however use it once in my garden, but that did not turn out too well. The drone ended up in my neighbours garden and my garden did not offer much space anyway. So this afternoon, I decided to walk up to our local park and have a play with my drone. I had already done a few YouTube "courses" on how to operate the drone, so I was feeling quite confident that the drone would not end up somewhere unretrievable and/or smashed up. 

Having a Skycontroller would have been icing on the cake for me, but unfortunately these do not come cheap and at the time that I purchased my Bebop drone, my funds were fairly limited. You can use your smart phone [Android or IOS] to control it, and with my iPad, it works brilliantly. I have put the purchase of the Skycontroller on my To Do list. I should be able to get a decent one from Ebay when the time comes and I am in a financial position to get one.

The Bebop drone is absolutely lovely. It is a great toy to have. Saying that though, there are so many commercial purposes this drone, and any other brand of drone can be used for. The Bebope drone comes with a charger and two spare batteries. For the technical detail related to the drone version I have [Bebop 2 has since been released after I purchased mine], check this >>Link<<.