Potensic T18 Drone Review – Drone for Beginners

The Potensic T18 Drone is the cheapest and the most affordable drone in the market that comes under the price range of $200. You will hardly find this kind of drone in the market with the best camera and many other features such as the GPS System. The drone comes from a very trusted company because of which you cannot doubt its build quality and durability.

The drone works well even in the hands of beginners. For the professions, it works too well. Even the compatibility of the drone is great which certainly makes it the best choice for the users.

Verdict

Potensic T18 Drone is one of the versatile drones that follows all the qualities laid down by the top companies, which attracts the customers to buy this drone with the best ever features. This drone comes under the price range of $200 which is again the cheapest drone. The beginners find this drone easy to operate and has the best ever compatibility along with the awesome build quality.

Smart flight modes are available that makes the flight experience enjoyable and interesting. The beginners can easily expertise the drone’s working mechanism with the highest possibility of mastering it. One of the best features of this drone is the GPS System which lets it to work even more efficiently. The facility of the GPS System allows the drone to maintain stability in the air.

There are certain other features like the Waypoint mode, Follow me mode and the Point of Interest mode. There are certain other modes such as headless mode that allows the beginners to control the orientation and other related functions to it. You will not have to face the situation in which direction the drone is moving.

Design and Build Quality

As far as the design and build quality is concerned you need not worry about. This drone has certain functions that clearly specify its design and build quality to a great extent. This drone is designed light weight to make it portable for the storage purposes. This drone has a well-planned design which gives it a premium look. The drone is designed with an HD Camera and has an associated FPV Feature. Other features of this drone include:-

1. The camera of the drone is designed to be of great resolution for capturing clear images. The resolution is approximately 1080p.
2. This drone is a portable drone and hence comes in a light weight design, weighs approximately under 250g.
3. This drone has a well designed Wide FOV which makes this drone unique and distinct from other drones of the same price segment.
4. This drone gives you a very premium flight experience which makes this drone worth buying. The drone comes with intelligent flight modes which adds colours to its build quality and functionality.
5. The drone is designed interior to support a dual GPS System. This helps a lot while you are in the air and makes the flight experience even better.
6. The drone has a automatic return to home features which facilitates a good landing in case of battery failure or other adverse conditions which includes windy days or in case of crashes.
7. The average flight time this drone offers you is of 9 minutes.

This drone is designed in such a way that the beginners find it very useful for themselves. This drone is designed to give a smooth flying experience with LED lights fitted on the drone. This is done to provide safety during night flight time and also the drone looks very attractive during the night time with LED Lights onto it. This drone is very affordable since it comes under the price range of $200.

This drone is hence very popular among the users since it is made from a high quality plastic including some alloys wherever required so that it provides you the prolonged durability. This drone is resistant to bad weather conditions and cracks. This drone can survive multiple crashes and works well into the hands of beginners too. Since this drone has a user-oriented interface and great orientation, this is worth buying.

Flight Experience

This drone gives you the best ever flight experience and is hence very easy to fly. If you go through the user manual carefully, you will get to know a great detailing about the flight mechanism of this drone. This drone is able to maintain a stability during the flight time including gradual steady altitude throughout the journey. This is all because of the dual GPS System of this drone.

If there is no wind that means on a warm sunny day, this drone can easily hover on a particular place where it has been instructed to. The overall transmission range of this drone is approximately 300 metres. This totally depends on the weather conditions and in case of any obstacles in the path. Since it has a very light weight design it is not advisable to fly in bad or windy weather condition only for the beginners.

This in turn makes your journey more safe and secure. The drone is designed with a 9-axis gyroscope feature that allows the drone to maintain a steady altitude throughout the journey. The dual GPS Mode enables the drone to connect to the satellites in and around them which helps to provide you with the best flight experience.

Camera

The best feature of this drone is the HD Camera it is provided with. The drone is able to capture clearer videos and images in a high definition quality. This drone is hence provided with a good camera featuring 1080p resolution. The camera is not provided with a stabilization feature like a gimbal, so there can be some shakiness in the picture quality.

But overall the camera is provided with a wide 120 degrees angle which can manually be adjusted up to 75 degrees as per your requirements. The live videos can be streamed in a very good resolution of 720p which is extremely good.

Storage

If you want your videos to be played and recorded in full 1080p resolution, you need to save it into the Micro SD Card. There is a small Micro SD Card slot made into the back of the drone where you can place the memory card and store high-quality pictures and videos into it. The memory card will not be provided to you by the company, you need to purchase it yourself from the market. So, in this way you can easily have the pictures and videos stored in the drone for your reference.

Remote Control

Like other drones, this drone to has a decent remote control which resembles a video game remote control look. But it works pretty fine and is very comfortable into the hands of the users. The remote control has a internal battery of lithium polymer which can easily be charged by a USB Cable. The buttons provided on the remote control has a function icon made on them in order to avoid any sort of confusion regarding their functions.

The smartphone holder is provided at the back of the remote control which firmly attaches the smartphone onto it.

Battery

The drone comes with a lithium polymer battery. The 1000mAh battery provided by a 3.7V gives an average backup power to the drone. The drone has a flight experience of 9 minutes which is not a satisfactory flight time. In order to increase the flight time of the drone, you need to purchase an extra set of batteries. The 4 LED Lights provided in the drone shows the power backup of the battery. But then, the drone is very cheap so this flight time can be considered satisfactory.

Pros

1. This drone has a super good design and builds quality which gives it a premium look.
2. The drone is powered by a very good quality camera of 1080p resolution which provides high quality pictures and videos.
3. This drone has intelligent flight modes available that give a very good flight experience.
4. The drone has a broad varieties of specifications and accessories provided with the package.
5. This drone has good transmission range of approximately 300 metres.
6. The drone is designed with an automatic return home button for the safe landing of the drone keeping in view the safety and security of the users.

Cons

1. The GPS does not work beyond the transmission range.
2. There are chances when the app stops working due to bugs.
3. The battery backup is not satisfactory.

Conclusion

From the above article, we come to a conclusion that this the cheapest and most reliable as well as versatile drone available in the market. The drone has a very good camera, remote control, along with features like dual GPS, Follow me, and other intelligent flight modes. The drone can be recommended to both beginners as well as professionals because of its great versatile features.