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I have long dreamed of flight to slip the surly bonds of Earth and tumble unfettered amongst the clouds to gaze upon the earth as an angel or an albatross to ascend into the frosty windswept glory of altitude but despite my many attempts to gain access to the wheeling and whirling eddies of the atmosphere I have always ended up grounded which is why when the power-up fpv arrived in the mail i was beside myself with its mounted Wi-Fi camera and Google cardboard support it claims to let you experience flight as if sitting in the cockpit of your very own paper airplane at last my chance to soar or so I hoped so tax Magnus en 10 mini gaming PC is VR and triple-a gaming ready check it out at the link in the video description expectations were high opening the box I couldn't wait to tear it open and start building my very own paper drone they have a video tutorial that covers how to properly fold it and the process wasn't overly difficult with a decent stack of sheets provided to allow for mistakes so in no time at all the drone was folded and ready to fly unfortunately this is where we hit our first major setback you see I live in the Pacific Northwest and the drone is not advertised as being waterproof once the skies cleared though we downloaded the app charged the drone and set off to a nearby field to at last experience the joy of flight unfortunately Tyler and his camera operator being the inexperienced pilots that they are didn't have a lot of luck with it after fine-tuning their plane by moving the wing support bar back and adjusting the elevators I didn't have any trouble getting it into the air but it was still a pretty disappointing experience because it flies like a plane and not like a quadcopter and because turning is handled by slowing one of the two propellers at the back of the skeleton its turning radius is very wide if you don't want to lose a lot of altitude since you've basically only got one motor running which means not as much lift for the airfoil so the fpv can only be used in wide open spaces I would also recommend avoiding anything but soft terrain the fpv doesn't land so much as it crashes gently and anything firmer than a bed of soft grass can potentially break the propeller though I will give them credit for including some extras in the Box it boasts a 20-minute battery life but from I experienced admittedly on a somewhat chilly day the actual time spent in the air will probably be significantly less than that after a pre-flight video check a false start and some adjustments a minute or so in the air and then ten minutes of following these by the way very helpful loud beeping noise that it makes when it crashes through some blackberry bushes into the bank of a nearby stream I was initially pleased to discover I still had 60% battery left great let's go again and as soon as I launched it dropped to 45% then seconds later the low battery alert cut the motors forcing me to land but what's it like soaring through the air does it let you experience flight as if you were sitting in the cockpit of your very own paper airplane I guess so if the cockpit of your very own paper airplane is streamed over an ISDN connection with vaseline cleared on the glass this is actually my first first person flying experience in VR and while the setup is simple and the like where you look is where you go controls work great provided you don't lean over too far the app connectivity is flaky at best and the choppy poor-quality video feed makes it quite difficult to orient yourself making crashes pretty much inevitable though all of this wouldn't really be that much of an issue if the power of fpv was a budget entry in the market it's not like while it's in the air it's not genuinely pretty cool and I'd be ok shelling out 20 or maybe even like 50 bucks for a novelty item that'll get a few hours of use out of before I crash landed in the street and it gets run over by a car but this drone is being sold at a retail price of $200 and I can get way more airborne entertainment for that kind of money these battle drones we featured on channel super fun r2 460 and a total last building and crashing them together so I guess the bottom line then is this for its cost and considering the plethora of other options on the market for flying toys right now from cheap units to expensive high-end quad copters I'm just not really sure who the powerup FPV is supposed to appeal to you know what's appealing FreshBooks freshbooks has redesigned their cloud accounting software from the ground up to help freelancers and small business owners be more productive more organized and get paid faster spend less time fooling around with complicated accounting solutions and more time earning money and managing your business you can send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds you can set up online payments with just a couple of clicks you can take deposits so you're getting paid on your schedule you can see when a client has seen 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