I discussed purchasing a 3DR SOLO awhile back, and it’s now been about 4 months I believe since I bought it. In short I haven’t had any issues, yet, and I enjoy how easy it is to fly. Although unfortunately it did not meet my original expectations.
The largest factors that contributed to the drones short comings is the flight time and range. 3DR was disgustingly overzealous in defining this drones specs. Stock with no gimbal or camera the drone could not fly longer than 20 minutes, where as the specs are defined at 25. Once you attach a gimbal and camera your payload will increase and naturally shorten your flight time. Well before you attach all that you were already at the time listed for all that extra weight. The flight time with gimbal and camera is 20 minutes but in reality you’d be lucky to get more than 15 minutes worth of operation time. Five minutes is a considerable amount of difference when you consider that of those 15
