Force1 UDI U818A Wifi FPV Drone with HD Camera, Remote Control, VR Headset and Power Bank

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VR DRONES FOR ADULTS & KIDS with FIRST PERSON VIEW: Watch a live streaming video feed of your flight from your iPhone or Android mobile device with the FPV WiFi feature. BONUS Drone VR Headset Included.
BONUS POWER SOURCES: You even get a FREE BONUS second UDI U818A battery and power bank to quadruple your flight time. This quadcopter WiFi drone makes a GREAT GIFT for any occasion.
CUSTOM ROUTE MODE: Trace your desired flight path of your U818A WiFi upgrade on the mobile app screen and the drone will follow along the path unassisted.
TAKES STUNNING PHOTOS & VIDEOS FROM THE SKY: Capture HD aerial photos & videos in crisp 720p with the built in 2MP camera. Ideal for the professional / hobby photographer or videographer.
ALTITUDE HOLD MAKES IT THE PERFECT DRONE FOR BEGINNERS: Controlling this WiFi FPV drone with HD camera is a breeze for beginners and its altitude hold function helps stabilize aerial photography and live video while in flight. FAA Registration NOT required.

UDI U818A WiFi FPV Drone - Virtual Reality Upgrade

Just when you thought UDI drones couldn’t get any more awesome, they brought you the all-new U818A WiFi FPV drone with Altitude Hold and Virtual Reality! Wait until you get yours up in the sky, you won’t believe your eyes. This high-flying USA Toyz exclusive is packed with brand new features you won’t find on any other drone! PLUS, this upgraded model comes with a VR Headset. HD Camera - Capture pristine high definition 720p aerial photos and videos of everything in its path with its 2MP stationary camera. Video footage has been upgraded to 1280 × 720 at 30 FPS, which is a major plus for aerial photographers and videographers. Long Flight Time - Extra Battery and Power Bank are included so you can charge on the go and maximize your flight time! Great for Beginners - Its lightweight, ready to fly design makes it a perfect choice for novice pilots.

Altitude Hold and Headless Mode

Your U818A Wifi FPV quadcopter will come ready to fly right out of the box. This drone comes with both Altitude Hold, and Headless Mode to make flying easier for beginners and novice flyers. Altitude Hold - With the push of a button, set your drone to hover at your preferred altitude. This makes controlling the drone much easier and stabilizes the camera for optimal aerial photography and videography. Headless Mode - Once activated, the pilot is able to fly the drone to any location without the need to worry about which direction the drone is facing. WiFi FPV, and VR Headset (included)

The U818A Wifi FPV is equipped with both WiFi FPV (First Person View), and VR Headset Compatibility. PLUS…we have INCLUDED a VR Headset, so you will be ready to fly like a pro when your drone arrives. WiFi FPV - This drone includes WiFi connectivity and the ability to view your flight through FPV (first-person view) VR Headset (included) - Sync your VR headset directly with the controller to really bring life to your flight! Live Video - Watch live video feed while in flight from your iPhone or Andriod with the WiFi FPV feature One Button Take Off & Landing, Custom Flight Path, and More!

One Button Take Off - Automatically hovers at a certain altitude after taking off.

One Button Landing - The drone flies down slowly, landing gently on the ground before motors stop spinning. Custom Route Mode

Trace the desired flight path on the mobile app screen and the drone will fly along the path unassisted. Box Contents: 1 U818W Drone 1 2.4Ghz Controller 2 Batteries 1 VR Headset 1 Power Bank 1 4GB SD Card 1 SC Card Reader 1 USB Battery Charger 4 Spare Blades 2 Tools 1 User Manual

Product Reviews

A very smooth and stable flyer.

TL;DR - The U818A has lots of pros and a couple of cons, but no deal breakers. It’s lightweight and sturdy enough to survive crashes. It’s a great quadcopter for someone just getting into the hobby with little or no flight experience, but it’s also a fun flyer for someone like me who’s been flying longer, too.I’ve been flying quadcopters for about a year now, and I’ve gotten pretty good at it. I am more into flying sport quads and racers than camera quads or anything with altitude hold. I probably never would have bought a quadcopter like the U818A, but I won one in a contest on a Facebook group so I was interested in testing it out to see what this quad is all about.Build quality and design are both good and what you’d expect to see in a quadcopter in this price range. It’s surprisingly light considering how tough and crash-worthy this thing has turned out to be. I wanted to see how tough the body is so I smacked into the house, the ground, a fence and a few trees. It suffered no damage to the body or the well protected props.It comes with 2 700mAh batteries (one is stored in the remote control battery bay) that keep the U818A in the air for 8-10 minutes. I have to say I am not a fan of the way UDI designed the batteries. They used 2 350mAh batteries wrapped together and wired in parallel to come up with the 700mAh rating. The batteries and the U818A have a wonky 4 pin battery connector so you will be forced to use UDI’s batteries if you want extras. That also means I can’t charge them on my hobby grade charger. The odd battery connector is something that can be simply fixed with a soldering iron, but even still…Boo! Thumbs down on proprietary batteries, UDI!So how does it fly? Amazingly well and very stably as long as there is little wind. I rarely get windless days living on the Massachusetts coast. The U818A is designed to fly on calmer days. The 10 mile an hour offshore breeze I often have here made it a challenge to keep the U818A were I wanted it to stay. It has an adjustable low rate and a high rate and even in high rate the quad was unhappy with my offshore breeze. That big plastic body the U818A has is great at keeping your props safe from crashes, but it also acts as a sail in the wind. It’ll fly in the wind, but the less wind the better.On the couple of windless days I was able to fly on, the U818A did everything UDI says it can do. I press the take off/land button and the quad popped up to about 4 feet in the air and sat there waiting for my input. I raised it up to 10 feet and let go of the throttle and the U818A just hung there at that altitude patiently. The quad stayed at whatever altitude I put it even when I gave it pitch or roll and fley it around. Hmm, now I understand why camera quad guys like altitude hold. It makes for a very stable and smooth flyer. If you are a total noob to flying then altitude hold will help you get and keep the quad in the air while you are figuring out how to make it fly it around. When I pressed the land button again,l the quad slowly landed and turned off the motors. If you press and hold the take off/land button when the quad is in the air, the motors stop immediately and the quad falls to earth. That’s a good safety function if your quad is about to fly away on you and you just want it to drop. Headless mode also works and it is another good feature for a new flyer to help stay in the air. I am impressed with these features because on so many quads in the price range these feature do not work well or at all. UDI included them and got them all to work right, too. Kudos, UDI!The U818A comes with a removable camera that will record to an SD card (though you have to use an app on your smartphone to turn the camera recording on/off) and also transmit video via WIFI back to your smart phone. The idea is that this will allow you to fly FPV. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work all that well for flying FPV because there is some lag between the camera transmitting the video and you seeing it, so while the cam works great for seeing where you are or lining up your video shot for recording, it’s not really that awesome for FPV flying. When will these manufacturers figure out that 2.4GHz WIFI is useless for FPV flying? As far as video quality is concerned, you can watch my short review video and judge for yourself.At the end of the day this is a fun quadcopter to fly that is packed with some advanced features that actually work. I plan to use this as a trainer for friends who’ve never flown a drone but want to give it a try. The alt hold will be great for noobs who want a less frustrating first attempt at flying. Your mom could fly the U818A and I think that is one of the quad’s strongest points. The fact that it’s easy for someone with little flight time to get this into the air and fly it around. More fun, less frustration :)

Drone going rogue but a good rating?

I bought this drone back when it was a best seller prior to Christmas, experienced a fly away right after Christmas, then noticed there were tons of fly away issues with one star ratings posted on Amazon immediately after Christmas, so I didn’t feel quite the idiot I did as we watched ours fly over a large field, over a subdivision, never to be seen again. Then why the 5 star rating, you ask? Well, before posting a review, I contacted the vendor, USA Toyz, to see what they were doing about all of the negative reviews regarding fly aways and I will tell you my experience with them has been first rate and have since received a replacement drone kit. Yes, they took responsibility for the fly away and are in communication with the manufacturer in an attempt to figure out if there is an issue with the drone or whether it was all user error. With it happening in such a large scale, it is their guess it may be something in the middle.So for those of you who have one or are nonetheless considering this particular one, here’s my take. The drone has some excellent features for beginners, specifically (1) One Button Takeoff which is hitting one button that will lift the drone then hover at 4 feet and (2) Emergency Shutdown which speaks for itself - IF YOU HOLD IT FOR 1 SECOND. I emphasize the previous text to point out that it is imperative a new user spend some time familiarizing themselves with all of the functions on the transmitter prior to taking your first flight. Yes, that screams common sense (duh) but with the takeoff being so simple with the One Button Takeoff, I believe there may be a tendency for some to just wing it at first without knowing all the details of control.For instance, it should be noted that the transmitter beeps for BOTH an Out of Range alarm AND a Low Battery Alarm and I cannot confirm this yet but I believe they sound the same. If that is the case, one could be getting an Out of Range alarm, mistake it for a Low Battery Alarm, not panic thinking it is about to die and fall from the sky anyway, then watch it fly off into the sunset never to be seen again even though it was trying to tell you “my battery is fine but I’m getting out of range.” The User Manual is not clear as to how long of an Out of Range warning you get before its actually goes rogue on you, but the reference to it in the user manual clearly states that when the the transmitter beeps an Out of Range Alarm, “if ignored, the drone may lose control and fly away.” And I am here to tell you it will do exactly that.So having said all of that, I cannot necessarily fault the drone with a poor rating as it flies quite well, albeit with or without user interface, but would like to suggest to the manufacturer to modify transmitter communication when its approaching an Out of Range warning, plus perhaps program it to just land itself as soon as it loses communication. With the popularity of this drone and drones in general, a loss of communication is inevitable in large numbers for newbies.

1st time Droner

I’ve never flown a drone before and I researched high and low for a beginner drone that had specific features I was looking for. Featires like one button landing, altitude hold, made sturdy enough in case I banged it into walls/ground, video/ photo capable and wouldn’t break the bank as well. This drone is all of that and more!! I’m having a blast flying it around the park, backyard and basement. I flown it into fences, trees and dropped it from about 20ft and it never got damaged enough to where it couldn’t fly. The controls take a bit to get used to especially because this is my first time but it doesn’t take long to figure it out. Buy this drone!All the best,Alex

Don’t waste you money

FPV is awful/useless , short range of 25v yards. It has been flown probably less than 8 hours in three months and today one of the motors seized up.

Poor product. Very disappointing

After only ten days the motor started going batty and the drone would flip or fly in directions and speeds not asked for from the controller. We are sending it back.

USA Toyz UDI U818A FPV Drone both stable and fun

USA Toyz markets the UDI U818A FPV Drone. This variant of the 2 year old U818 frame has an FPV facemask to put your Android or iOS phone into; Flyingsee is the do-all app to…

Great Drone and Support is Outstanding

The Force1 UDI U8181A drone arrived as predicted by Amazon. Everything was in order as expected. I also ordered spare batteries for longer flying sessions and a carrying case to…

Great Drone Despite Flyaway Issues

This drone is very easy to fly, stable, and crash-worthy. It flew perfectly for several months until one day I pushed the takeoff button.

Almost got more stars!

I received this drone as a gift recently. Overall I am happy with the drone and its general build and performance.

Cheap

Problems from the minute we started it up.Fly aways kept happening and then a motor went out. Replaced a motor and now the troubleshooting says its the receiver board.

Drone worked great with the original battery

Drone worked great with the original battery. Unfortunately after charging up the second battery I connected it to the drone, the lights turn on for a few seconds and then turns…

Terrible battery life

Battery does not last more than 15 minutes. This is why I only give it three stars. By the time you figure out how to fly it, the battery is gone and you have to charge it again.