Show all reviewsCool Concept, But For Now That's About All....Product Packaging: Standard Packaging|Limited Functionality, but does what it claims, nothing more. Forget QgroundCotrol, GPS still = poop.A necessary gadgetProduct Packaging: Standard Packaging|It kind of works.I wound up returning it.RiskyProduct Packaging: Standard Packaging|Still we fail to understand how to control ...Not good first thing it needed was a software updateProduct Packaging: Standard Packaging|A must haveProduct Packaging: Standard Packaging|QuestionableProduct Packaging: Standard Packaging|←Previous... See all 23 answered questionsBest SellingParrot AR Drone 2.0 Propellers178Top RatediEGrow 20C 11.1V 2000mah Upgrade Battery for Parrot Ar.drone 2.0 Power Edition Helicopter12Lowest PriceParrot AR Drone 2.0 & Power Edition Replacement Motor Gears and Shaft / Repair Parts Kit... Available from these sellers. New (10) from $181.86DRONE 2.0 Flight Recorder: GPS, 4GB, return to take-off location feature

Using the Parrot Flight Recorder, the AR.Drone 2.0 is the first toy with on-board GPS. This new accessory improves the features of the AR.Drone 2.0 and records more than 350 flight settings. It is the black box of your AR.Drone 2.0 Flight Recorder Geolocation using the GPS module Select your destination on the map Record flights and videos using 4GB Flash memories Review your flights modeled in 3D on the AR.parrot ar drone spare parts australiaDrone Academy Map Make the AR.storm drone 6 calibrationDrone 2.0 automatically return to its take-off point Improves stability in flight Control Mode: “Click & Go” Select the destination on the map Set the altitude and cruise speed Click “GO” The AR.phantom 2 drone kopen

Drone starts its flight (operates within the limit of the Wi-Fi connection with the control device) Return Home This new function makes the AR.Drone return automatically to its take-off point The GPS coordinates are recorded at each moment which enables the AR.Drone 2.0 to position itself accurately in space (+/- 2m) The signal captured from the satellites can vary the location Better Flight Behavior Using Flight Recorder GPS sensors, the AR.turbo drone quadcopter goproDrone 2.0 is more stable when flying in altitude Arrival at the destination view larger Connecting Connect the Flight Recorder to the USB port of the AR.parrot ar drone propeller placementEnsure the Flight Recorder is positioned exactly above the battery to obtain best results. parrot ar drone flight path

The official video shows you how to do this. Drone Academy Replay View your flights from another angle using the AR.Drone Academy replay function. Improve your trajectories using the 3D modeling of each of your flights. Retrace your flights in 3D view larger Create your Flight Plans in Advance The Flight Recorder is compatible with the MAVLink Open Source communications protocol, which means it can be used with the QGround Control software package. QGround Control is a free software package available in Open Source under Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It allows you to create your own flight plans with multiple intermediate points in 3 dimensions. Drone will follow this aerial route automatically. In addition, a team at the Delft University of Technology integrated the open source high end autopilot software, paparazzi, in the AR.There is no need to change the AR.Drone hardware but only to plug in the Parrot Flight Recorder. Next step is to have a laptop with paparazzi on it, to connect the laptop wifi to the AR.

Drone, to launch paparazzi and to click on "compile" so that the software will be put on the AR.view larger Technical Specifications Dimensions: 77.7 x 38.3 x 12.5mm Weight: 31g Accuracy: +/- 2 meters Frequency: 5Hx Voltage: 3.3V TBC Time To First Fix: 25s maximum 4GB Flash memory (allows 2 hours of video to be recorded) USB Port: Comprises one type A female USB port to connect a USB key drive WARNING: This GPS receiver can only be used with the AR.Do not connect other GPS devices. The pilot must always maintain direct visual contact with their AR.HD Battery Specifications Lithium battery energy content, in watt hours = 16.5 Wh Total battery Weight = 120g including plastic casing and protection circuit Lithium battery voltage = 11.1V Number of Lithium ION cells: 3 Battery life in hours: 18 minutes (0,3 hour) 4 x 1 x 6 inches 3.6 out of 5 stars #5,696 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories) 5 star42%4 star14%3 star8%2 star15%1 star21%See all verified purchase reviewsTop Customer ReviewsCool Concept, But For Now That's About All....|

Forget QgroundCotrol, GPS still = poop.|It kind of works.|I wound up returning it.| See and discover other items: drone return home, drone with return home feature, camera gpsChris Griffith tests the Parrot AR Drone 2 new flight recorder, which lets you set the drone's destination by touching it on a map. The AR Drone Mark 2 with GPS.12EXCITED geeks are getting adventurous with their Parrot AR quadcopters. When we last looked at the AR Drone in 2012, the four-rotor hi-tech helicopter Mark 2 had become capable of streaming video to an iPhone in glorious 720p high-definition resolution. It also could perform flips in the sky.Now it’s a new ballgame. The AR Drone has transformed from a quadcopter you control manually from your phone to what is called an “autonomous” drone — one you pre-program with the destination and have it fly there automatically. There’s also a home button that, with one press, will see the drone automatically find its way back to its origin.The consumer drone’s claim to hi-tech fame is its ability to be controlled via standard WiFi using an app from an iPhone, iPad and ­Android device.

It also has an impressive array of sensors — a three-axis accelerometer and three-axis gyroscope to aid stability, and two ultrasound altimeter sensors that measure distance to the ground. The downward-facing camera helps it hover motionless even in light wind conditions.We got to try it out with its new GPS flight recorder last week — the so-called AR Drone 2.0 GPS edition. You attach the red flight recorder dongle directly above the battery and attach the drone’s USB connector. It has to sit on top for the GPS to work. The flight recorder has 4GB of storage for recording flight vision, enough for two hours of vision. But if you need more, you can plug another USB device into the back of it.It’s not the sturdiest set-up I’ve seen. The velcro strap used to ­attach the dongle doesn’t seem that secure, and if you want to reattach the hull, you’ll find the velcro is out of alignment. To get around this, you can operate the drone without its hull. It worked, but there must be a better way.

It was then off to Sydney Park, a huge open space — not too far from Mascot airport in Sydney, I should add — to try GPS guided flying out.Overseas users already have achieved remarkable feats with Parrot’s GPS flight recorder. They include the AR Drone’s first transcontinental flight, across the Bosphorus, a 1km strait in Turkey that links Asia and Europe. On that flight, the drone flew with the help of QgroundControl, download­able open-source software you can use to create an AR Drone flight plan. Parrot says the new flight recorder is compatible with the software. You can even create several legs of the one flight.The disparity is that it’s easy to pick a destination that’s way outside WiFi range, which for me was 40m-50m. When the Parrot detects it’s out of range, it is supposed to hover. On the Bosphorus flight, they cheated by having an operator on a boat beneath the drone to overcome this limitation.Others are using the new flight recorder to set a far more precarious destination, say 1km across a city, flying high over busy highways and residential districts.

They’ve followed their Parrot in a car and, where it hovered, re-est­ablished a WiFi connection to send it on its way again. Their adventures are on YouTube. This presents a nightmare to regulators such as CASA that are having to develop rules for urban drone use.Being at Sydney Park, a stone’s throw from Australia’s gateway airport, near a busy roadway and not far from the residential precincts of Alexandria, St Peters and Newtown, I decided to be conservative in my testing of GPS-oper­ated flying.On the Alan Davidson oval (named after a famous Aussie left-arm fast bowler from yesteryear), I programmed the drone to fly across the oval, over a picket fence, and land about 60m away. I also conducted some flights from the top of a hill at Sydney Park to a bunch of trees more than 100m away. Both were well in sight.I did this using Parrot’s iPhone/iPad app AR FreeFlight 2.4. When pressed, a globe icon at the top right of the display brings up a map: you put your finger on the screen where you want the drone to fly to.

(Memo to Parrot: on the iPhone you are forced to zoom down from world view to your current location.)Your destination appears on the map in red. You can set speed and height in columns down the side. You then press the “take off” button and, once the drone is airborne, the “Go” button. In a few screen jabs, the drone is off to a preprogrammed spot. My drone made it across the oval several times, flying high above the fence but once narrowly missing a light fitting there — the trick is to set the height above all obstacles. On the longer Sydney Park stretch, the drone hovered about halfway — as it should.In both cases, I was outside WiFi range, so I walked towards the drone to reconnect. I found that when using an iPhone 5S as controller, I had to get closer than 20m to effect a reconnection and a couple of times I couldn’t reconnect at all. This took away some lustre.Another new function, “home”, will send your drone back from wherever it is to the flight’s origin. Again, you have to be within WiFi range for this to work.

The drone did indeed return, but often a few metres from the take-off spot. Don’t expect pinpoint accuracy.The big bugbear with the Parrot drone is still battery life. You get just a dozen minutes of flight on one 1000 milliampere hour cell which takes about one hour, 15 minutes to charge. You definitely need to buy a couple of the larger 1500 mAh to get decent flying time. The battery drains even when the Parrot is on the ground but connected. Parrot needs to work on this as priority.In addition to iOS and Android devices, the Drone Mark 2 can be piloted from a Windows 8 PC or tablet, an NVIDIA Shield and soon with gestures using a Myo armband.There is a new Parrot model in the works, the Bebop drone, where the GPS is embedded. It has big 14 megapixel camera that snaps HD images and wide angle 1080p video with digital panning, and 8GB of on-board video storage. Most significantly, it runs with a Skycontroller, a tablet dock that boosts WiFi range to about 2km. That means serious flying.