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SKY VIPER JOURNEY PRO VIDEO DRONE W/ GPS

Sky Viper Journey Pro Video Drone V2700 with GPS, $144.99 (www.fingerhut.com...)
Manufactured by Skyrocket (http://sky-viper.com)
Last updated 05-04-19

This isn't a flashlight, household lamp, Christmas light set, or other thing that glows, but it *DOES* have a number of LEDs on its fuselage (this word is definitely *NOT* pronounced "fyoo SELL' uh jee" as Drake Parker from the TV program "Drake and Josh" would pronounce it; the word is pronounced "

, so what the hey

I love things that fly; that's why I took the bate and also why I added a seperate section titled "PRODUCTS DESIGNED TO FLY" on my website a number of years ago. I was also attracted to something that this drone has that many others don't...

1:It has GPS stabilisation -- that means it's easy to fly even for a "craptastic" pilot like me.
2: It has all of those wonderful LEDs

This is a small, lightweight (5.640 oz.), easy-to-fly 4-channel remote-controlled outdoor (and indoors with a large enough space) drone. Its remote uses RF (radio frequency) radiation. And you get a live (albiet choppy) video feed directly to your cellular telephone handset's display.

It sports a 720p camera; both still photos and aerial video can be taken with it!

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

This toy is remarkably easy to use for a drone...here's how to get it off the ground:

As with any rechargeable product, charge it first (see directly below), install the flight battery, and then you can pretend to fly a dragonfly (well, that's what the kitty cats would think it was if it were designed to be flown in a small living room).

1: Plug up the drone's flight battery and place the drone on the ground so that the tail-end (the end with the black propeller blades) faces you.

2: On the remote control, press the small circular button in the center of the radio -- the button is located directly between the two joysticks. (Drone on first -- then radio. This is opposite of how many other drones are started!)

Move several feet away from the drone (at least six feet away).

3: The radio will emit a series of tones (not obnoxiously loud but clearly audible) and the red & green lights on the radio will now come on and start blinking alternately. This indicates that the drone is attempting to lock onto GPS satellites. When the lights stop flashing and the red light stays off, it is now ok to launch.

4: Press & release the LAUNCH button.

5: The Sky Viper Journey Pro Video Drone should now lift off the ground. Congratulations, you're now a pilot!!!

For additional instructions & tips on how to fly, please read the instructional material that comes with the product.

As with most all GPS drones, this drone has a RTH (Return To Home) failsafe; if the drone flies beyond the range of its radio, if the flight battery peters out, or if the Return To Home button on the radio is pressed, the drone stops its current activity, flies back to the takeoff point, and lands itself.

Press & release the Power button on the radio and unplug the drone's battery when finished using them.

The battery in the Sky Viper Journey Pro Video Drone itself is rechargeable; however the batteries in the remote will need to be changed from time to time.

To do this, unscrew & remove the phillips screw from the battery door on the underside of the unit, using the included small phillips screwdriver. Set the screw aside.

Swing the battery door away, carry it to the top of the basement stairs, and kick it down those stairs into the basement crawling with thousands of hungry silverfish that have to piddle -- they'll think it's something yummy to eat and start chewing on it, but quickly find it unpalatable, so they all pass micturition on it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Remove the four used AAA cells from the compartment, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Insert four new AAA cells into the compartment, orienting each cell so its flat-end (-) negative faces a spring for it in each chamber.

Finally, place the battery door back on, and screw the screw back in.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door down the stairs to all those hungry, hungry silverfish that really need to go poddy now?

To charge the battery in the Sky Viper Journey Pro Video Drone, take the thin cord that's attached to the USB charger dongle, and plug the small end into the cable on the battery itself. Plug the larger end into any USB port on your Mac or pee-cee

When the charge cycle is in progress, the bicolor LED on the charger will be red. When the charge cycle is complete, this LED should turn green.

You may then safely unplug the battery from the charger, and unplug the USB dongle from your computer.

Fully charging the Sky Viper Journey Pro Video Drone' battery should give you approx 7 to 9 minutes of flying time.

This RC drone is meant to be used as a toy in a dry area outdoors (or in a large open room indoors), not as a flashlight meant to be carried around all the time, thrashed, and abused; so I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the {vulgar slang term for a fudge bunny}bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again

- candiosity is usually checked with a scanner-type device on a platform with a large readout, with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannoñata is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or inflict upon it punishments that I might inflict upon a flashlight.

Drones are meant to be loved, not punished.

So this section of the drone's web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

The range of the radio in the Tx (R/C hobby talk for "transmitter") is stated as 200 feet; frequency is stated as 2.4GHz.

The unit has a 4-channel remote control; this allows for forward / backward / up / down / left / right movement (movement on all three axes -- X, Y, and Z). It also has a fully proportional control system; simply meaning that the motor speeds can be varied depending on how far you move the joysticks -- it isn't simply "full power and no power at all" like some other R/C products.

The camera has a video resolution of 1280 x 720 (720P video quality).

One thing that piddles me off about this drone is the very limited range; at times the auto-RTH (Return To Home) kicks in while the drone is just 20 or 30 feet away -- doesn't matter if that's linear distance or if the product is directly overhead.

Another thing that piddles me off about it is that on many occasions, the video files it produces are corrupted and unusable.
When the drone does produce a viable video, frame-skipping is extremely severe -- a nine minute flight may easily produce a video barely one minute in duration.

Photograph of its remote control with my own cellular telephone handset affixed to it.

ALL OF THE FLIGHT VIDEOS ARE ON THEIR OWN WEB PAGE
SO THAT THIS EVAL. WOULD NOT BECOME TOO CUMBERSOME!!!

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on Fingerhut's website in mid-April 2019.

UPDATE: 04-27-19
On the flight that I made on the morning of 04-26-19, I neutralised the radio in order to test the auto-RTH failsafe. The drone immediately simply fell out of the sky from ~75 feet (22.9~M) and hit the tarmac (pavement) upside-down, causing the front port (left) propeller to become jammed. I'm uncertain as to whether or not I'll be able to successfully repair it.

As a result, the totally dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon must be appended to its listings on this website.

UPDATE: 04-28-19
The drone is functional agaion; though the front port (left) motor is still partially jammed and consequently consumes more current from the flight battery. But the good news here is that it DOES INDEED FLY!!!

UPDATE: 04-28-19 (Same-day update)
While flying the Sky Viper Journey Pro, it landed on the roof of a convenience store and because of large quantities of metal along the soffit and roofline, I was unable to rebind the drone with the transmitter and subsequently could not take off and fly it safely to the ground.

As a result, the dreadful, "

" icon will now be appended to its listings on this website, indicating that the drone was lost in the line of duty.

UPDATE: 04-28-19 (Another same-day update)
The wayward little drone was retrieved by an employee of the Happy Market convenience store where it went down, so I once again have it in my custody. :-)

UPDATE: 04-29-19 I finally had a successful flight -- the entire video recorded for a change!!!

UPDATE: 05-04-19 On a FAILED flight attempt that I made on 05-03-19, I found that the port (left) rear motor has apparently blown out; I was unable to get it to spin even with manual assistance. :-(
Therefore, the always-dreadful, " Failed or was destroyed during/after testing

" icon will have to be appended to this drone's listings on this website.

Skyrocket

Mini-sized R/C quadcopter (drone) w/inbuilt camera

LED

9 (1 red & 3 green in radio, 1 bicolor red/green in charger, 1 red, 2 green, and 1 blue in drone itself)

N/A

Pushbutton on/off on radio

Plastic

N/A

4x AAA cells for radio; 3.70V 1,200mAh Li:PO battery for drone

Unknown/unable to measure

Very light sprinkle-resistance only

EIN GROßER RIESIGER GEIST, DER EINEN RIESIGEN PLUMPS NIMMT UND DANN DEN KOPF UNROT NEIN VERLÄSST!!!

USB charging dongle w/ cable, 2x front rotor blades, 2x rear rotor blades, small Phillips screwdriver

10.50" dia.

5.640 oz.

China

Unknown/not stated

Sky Viper Journey Pro Video Drone V2700 with GPS * www.fingerhut.com...

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