I experienced the "Drone flipping upon takeoff" issue just after flying it 3 times. My AR Drone 2.0 Elite Edition was brand new out of the box. I charged the battery fully. Downloaded the App fresh with the latest version recommended by Parrot. I started up the AR Drone 2.0 outdoors WITH the outdoor hull on it. After pilfering through countless "Incorrect prop placement" threads, and a pile of other incorrect useless threads that all misdiagnosed the issue. Here's a list to put in your back pocket for "that day". Not "if" it will happen to your AR Drone 2, but definitely a matter of "when" it does happen....Possible causes for "Flip during takeoff" IF your drone is brand new out of the box:[/b][/u]Damaged, Unbalanced or Incorrect propeller blades [/b](Yes, there are certain types of blades per corner, and it matters. For those who may not be familiar with quadcopter blade orientation.)The electric motor on any of the prop corners may be damaged. Each electric motor needs to be able to turn to specific RPM's, and be at exact speeds to compensate against the other motors so you get "Lift".

Just because the electric motor turns the prop doesn't mean that it's not damaged. I took two test flights by pressing the green "Take Off" button on the Parrot AR Drone app, and the drone would lift about 3 feet into the air. I flew it twice successfully, and landed it cleanly each time. (It comes set default with beginner settings to reduce crashes.) There could be multiple issues. Has your drone been crashed? Even a light impact on it's landing legs can damage an AR Drone 2.0. This may seem surprising, but it is very true and common. My Disaster was less impressive. (I say disaster, but it's salvageable...for a 4th cost of the machine.) My 3rd flight I started to get a little drift from a breeze, and so I pressed the "Land" button on the app. My AR Drone 2.0 landed in my front yard softly, and yes safely. Here's where the problem began... I attempted to takeoff again from where I had just landed in the grass, but the propeller on [i][u]one[/u][/i] motor could not turn 100% freely right away because of the grass.

The drone aborted takeoff on it's own. I thought, hmmm...ok...my fault the grass is about 8 inches tall. (Parrot's AR Drone 2.0 Elite and several other Parrot drones have roughly a 2 inch ground clearance per propeller.) I placed my drone back on smooth flat concrete, and pressed the "take off" button. However, when the drone attempted to takeoff it lifted slightly into the air (about 3 inches) and began to drift uncontrollably and hard to the left. I couldn't understand why all of a sudden it was acting this way, as I had just flown it successfully no less than 30-40 seconds prior, and I had NOT crashed it.parrot ar drone oferta *Note: I looked on several posts on the Parrot website, and found mostly useless info. parrot ar drone pakistanMost of which spoke about crashed drones that people couldn't understand why their drone was now acting erratically. ar drone 2 carbon hull

The common A&C misplaced propeller, or worse damage that consisted of broken gears, damaged cross members, blah blah, on and on. My AR Drone 2.0's Left Rear electric motor had been damaged when attempting takeoff while in grass, the electric motor attempted it's rapid ramp up of RPM's to gain liftoff, but since there was a few blades of grass obstructing the propeller, the electric motor was damaged as it attempted to turn the propeller. (Guess I should have performed the "Landing gear mod", since I was using it in an outdoor environment?) Yes, I understand it's not a lawnmower. Yes, I now know that the AR Drone 2.0 Elite has very short landing legs, now. So basically a brand new $300+ drone is now useless because it's electrical motor was unable to overcome the grass. The electric motor would still turn the prop, but it was damaged just enough to not properly work sufficiently to be used. As it could no longer spin to the required RPM's needed for lift and or sustained flight.

Long story short, if you land in taller grasses than a golf course or astro turf. Or anything other than a flat solid surface. Do not attempt to takeoff again. The AR Drone 2.0's electric motors are too sensitive/delicate to withstand even the slightest resistances aside from spinning the propellers. If you wreck yours, I can only imagine that is an automatic electric motor loss on the side of impact. Replacement AR Drone 2 electric motor: $50 U.S. currency (Per Amazon, not including shipping.) Level of difficulty to replace AR Drone electric prop motor on a scale of 1-5: 1Great funColour: Black and Red|A brilliant piece of kit!Excellent excellent excellentColour: Black and Red|BrilliantColour: Black and Red|Colour: Black and Red|Elite VS Power Edition VS normal AR DroneColour: Sandgreat big boys toyColour: Black and RedPut it back in the box and forget itColour: SandAn expensive toyColour: Sandthis kind of attitude from a company speaks volumes and I would recommend if you are looking for a drone to look ...

See all 42 answered questions • Lowest PriceParrot AR.Drone 2.0 Flight Recorder25Top RatedParrot Bebop Drone (Yellow)83Need customer service? Hands on Review of AR.Drone 2.0 is expensive ($299) and can only fly for 15 minutes on a charge, but it’s still a leading contender for the best Father’s Day gift you might ever buy. When I tried out the new AR.Drone earlier this year, I sensed its entertainment value, but it wasn’t until I brought it home and took it for a bunch of real test flights that I discovered the compelling nature of this remote-control flying and HD video-recording entertainment device. It’s best described as your own personal spy drone.Drone 2.0 is the follow-up to the widely discussed AR.Drone 1, which made a splash a couple of years ago as a unique iPhone-controlled quadropcopter. The best part of it? You could see what the AR.Drone’s standard definition camera saw. The copter responded to the on-screen flight controls.Drone sports two cameras: a standard-definition camera in its belly that points at the ground and a 720p HD camera.

That camera not only shows you what the copter sees, but also lets you capture HD video files on your smart phone or tablet (iOS and Android devices).Drone 2.0 is easy enough. It comes with two bodies; one with protective foam rings for indoor flights (they’ll protect your plants, furniture, small children and pets from the largish rotor blades), and a leaner body for outdoor flights. Under the hull (which is held in place by a strong magnet) is the rechargeable battery and a USB port (more on that later). There’s a wall-wart battery charger — you need to charge the battery for about an hour and a half. The flyer ships with a quick-start guide, but the full manual can only be found online. That guide was far more helpful than the thick quick-start guide that devotes 80% of its pages to other languages. The software you’ll need to control AR.FreeFlight 2.0, is freely available for download via the App Store and Google Play. You can’t fly the AR.Drone until you connect it to your smartphone or tablet via Wi-Fi (802.11A/B G and N).

This, too, is easy. The AR Drone shows up as a Wi-Fi hotspot. Unfortunately, once you’re connected to the AR.Drone, your Wi-Fi is not connected to anything else (your smartphone and tablet’s 3G or 4G will be working just fine, though). Once the connection is set up, you can open the AR.Freeflight 2 application and start to fly. Drone is equipped with a fair amount on intelligence to make this less daunting than it appears. The Drone knows its altitude, its position relative to your phone or tablet, and speed (up to 1000 millimeters per second). Plus, the Freeflight 2 app makes it pretty easy to control the AR.Drone 2.0’s precise movements. I tapped the large green "Take off" button on the screen and the AR.Drone 2.0 lifted about three meters off the ground. Indoors, I quickly found that there really wasn’t enough room to fly the quadrocopter. I changed out the hull and took it outside, but I have to admit that it was always a struggle to see my iPad screen and on-screen controls in the sunlight.

Eventually, though, I made it work. (Turning up the brightness on my iPad helped.)Drone will hover patiently in one spot until you take control. The right thumb stick controls which direction the drone points and its altitude. It’s the easier of the two controls — a move of your thumb to the right, for example, and the AR.Drone smartly turns 90 degrees to the right. Once you’ve spent enough time flying the drone, you get used to turning it slowly in any direction, all by shifting your thumb.Freeflight 2.0’s left-side control takes more, well, finesse. As soon as you place your thumb on that circle, the accelerometer in your phone or tablet is controlling the movement of the AR.The sharper your moves (tilting forward and back and left and right), the faster the copter moves. If you tip hard, the copter tips and its four blades send it whizzing forward. You have two ways of controlling the copter in this manner: through your device’s accelerometer or in Joystick mode. The latter replaces the accelerometer with an on-screen virtual joystick, makes the control relative to your position and actually makes the drone ten times easier to control.

Getting good at flying in any mode takes practice. I’d say that by my fourth flight, I felt like I had the knack of it. But good flying is not the best part. Yes, sending the AR.Drone 2.0 up to 100 meters in the air (the default is just three meters) is exhilarating, but also terrifying because a good wind could take the quadrocopter away and out of your control. (Keep in mind that you’re connected to it via Wi-Fi, which is good for about 300 ft.) However, it’s what the drone can do when it’s up in the air that's impressive. It can record everything in sharp, wide-angle 720 P video. That MPEG 4 video will either stream directly to your phone or tablet (provided they have the on-board room) or to an under-the-hull USB key (which plugs into the USB port I mentioned earlier) that can fly with the AR.Drone is way up there you can fly around, turn it 360 degrees and even perform a flip maneuver. I did all this and recorded everything. The video looks great. Video recorded with the SD base camera was just so-so however, and I rarely used it.

You get just 15 minutes of flying time before the AR.Drone runs out of juice. As you fly, AR.FreeFlight 2.0 beeps to warn you that you’re running out of power (you can also see the percentage remaining on the screen). When you get close to 0% remaining, the AR.Drone will take over and land the quadrocopter before it runs out of power and crashes. You can also simply hit the large, green "Land" button and the AR.Drone will gently lower to the ground. Ultrasonic sensors tell it how far it is from the ground so it’s almost never a hard landing. Is the foam, metal and plastic Drone tough? On one of my first flights, I sent it careening into the top portion of a very tall tree. Drone 2.0 has an emergency cut-off so the rotors stop spinning as soon as they hit an obstruction. This is useful for avoiding injury and damaging other objects, but it also means that when I crashed into that tree, the flyer stopped flying and plummeted to the ground with a significant thud that I heard from 150 yards away.

Drone 2.0 was undamaged and flew again and again after that. (See the video above for proof.) Like I said, the AR.Drone is not cheap. I wish it cost $99, but a sub-$100 flyer would not have the number of sensors, intelligence and companion software found in the AR.Should the battery life be longer? Maybe, but the flyer likely couldn’t carry a much larger battery and fly the way it does. That battery, by the way, gets very, very hot by the end of a full flight. I wonder what would happen if it could fly longer. There is also the question of what that fast drain will do to the battery life. It would not be great if the battery was done after only a few months. And yet, I love the thing. I had so much fun flying it, capturing video and even posting it on YouTube. There are games to play, too. They come in the software, but half of them require someone else also own an AR.As much fun as those games are, (a couple incorporate Augmented Reality), I prefer simply flying the AR.Drone in a big open space and capturing the true bird’s eye view.