Customer Ratings & Reviews

I purchased this drone for my son a few weeks ago. He has been enjoying it a lot and it does some really cool tricks! It’s a very good drone to start learning to fly with. It comes with a nice carrying case and two batteries. Each battery lasts about 30 minutes so at least an hour of flying time. It came with extra blades and it charges fairly quickly. It’s a very good quality drone for the price. I would definitely recommend for a beginner.

– BUILD – The S5C Elite is fairly small and made primarily of plastic, including the propeller blades. It is equipped with 4 brushless motors with twin blades on each motor. The blades themselves are pushed into their flight position with each motors’ centrifugal force and are able to withstand crashes due to its swivel design. Basically, if you crash this drone the blades will give way when it impacts an object or surface. The detachable battery sits on the backend of the drone, while the adjustable camera towards the front. There are various LEDs on the drone that indicate flight status, especially when crashed or out of battery. It also emits a sound during low battery as well as turning it on and off. There is a small antenna on the underbody of the drone for optimal signal reception, and a small center adjacent to it to determine elevation relative to the ground. A microSD slot can be found on its starboard side for when taking photos and videos. When necessary, the blades can be easily replaced with a Philips screwdriver. The four main arms are able to fold in to allow easy storage. The controller itself is made of plastic as well. The joysticks’ tension feel firm and for extra comfort, there are lower arms that fold out that give you a more comfortable grip. The controller will allow you to clamp your smartphone when you perform FPV flights. – CONTROLS – The controls are…simple, yet complicated. It really depends a lot on your experiences with RC cars, planes and even video games. There are two main joysticks: the left joystick controls elevation(up or down) and yaw(turn left or right) and the right joystick controls pitch (move forward or backward) and roll (lean left or right). It sounds simple until you actually get in the air and learn the behaviors of the drone with each input change. Being a beginner myself, I practiced a lot with oval flight routes around my house. I practiced clockwise, then counter-clockwise to get a feel for the pitch and yaw controls. After several runs (and several crashes), I was able to switch to Speed II on the controller, and this allows your joystick inputs to be more sensitive and allow for faster maneuvers. The controller also has one touch take-off and landing, and dedicated buttons for circular flying (camera is always pointed toward you) and a very sleek flip. If a microSD card is inserted, you can take photos and videos with dedicated buttons on the left shoulder of the controller while adjusting camera angles with buttons on the right shoulder. – APP CONNECTIVITY – Using the Snaptain Era app, you’ll be able to pilot the S5C as if you were in the cockpit. Connectivity is done via WiFi @2.4GHz; you’ll have to connect to the drone’s SSID prior to launching the app. Once connected, you’ll see a real-time feed of the camera and fly FPV (first person view). – PERFORMANCE – This drone is perfect for those that are getting into drones and learning to fly drones, in general. As a newbie, I am still overwhelmed with the various ways to fly in 3D space. This isn’t an airplane that flies nose first; drones hover and can fly in any direction and the S5C is completely capable of doing this. I loved flying around my home, learning to navigate using the controls and ultimately learning to fly with confidence. I’ve crashed a lot….A LOT, and the S5C is still able to take the abuse and continue to fly. I think with enough practice using the S5C, I can move up into a more advanced, professional grade drone. –RANGE– As far as range goes…Snaptain claims up to 100m…which is 300ft. With my testing, I felt that it was a bit shorter. I’m not trying to dispute their claim, but wanted to let folks know that there are a lot of factors that can drive this range lower. An obvious one is line of sight. Make sure that your remote control has direct line of sight to the drone. If you don’t have direct line of sight, it may seem fine as you work towards 100ft, but the remote control will start beeping loudly notifying you that it does NOT have any signal connection to the drone. This happened to me while I was trying to take pictures of the solar panels on my roof; the drone just stopped responding. I had to take a step back away from the roofline to attain a signal and get the S5C back on the ground. – BATTERY– The drone comes with two 3.7V 1200mAh Batteries that last around 15 minutes each. If you run FPV, run times will come a bit shorter than that. Having two batteries charged back-to-back is plenty enjoyable for a good practice run or just having fun. –CAMERA– The drone does come with a 1080p camera that can swivel up to degrees from pointed straight to looking straight down. The photos and videos are decent. Photos will appear washed out, but nothing that you can fix in post. The videos are also in 1080p, but it looks at 30fps…maybe less. The video feed felt choppy at times during FPV, and that’s probably attributed to signal strength. The same result will appear in your recorded videos. Nothing too crazy, especially this being a beginner’s drone. – CONS – Considering that this is a beginner’s drone, I didn’t dock it for the niceties that I wished it had; those features come when moving up to the advanced models. But if i had one complaint, it is most definitely the range. I didn’t really have a lot of confidence flying farther out. I thought simply flying over my roof would be safe enough, but the signal started cutting much sooner than I expected it to. Otherwise, flying indoors or relatively close to you outdoors is fine. Just know that this thing looks a lot smaller once it starts moving away from you. My only star to take off.

The SNAPTAIN S5C Elite is an excellent little drone. It’s fun for the family and isn’t that hard to operate. Who: I recommend this drone for the family, kids, or anyone who just wants to have fun. This is not an advanced drone but one that is designed to be fun and affordable. The kids will love playing with this! I would say the age on the box (14+) is accurate. Anyone younger should be supervised by an adult and also provide full guidance. App: luckily I have experience with similar devices and could figure out how to use he app with the drone. The app to me is confusing and really provides no guidance in connecting it with your drone. There’s no screen guidance so you have to follow directions or remember how to connect it each time. You only have to go into your phone’s wifi setting and select the drone (must be powered on) and go back to the SNAPTAIN app. It will take a minute but it will connect and you will get a live stream of the drones camera right on your phone. You can also use the app to control the phone. Batteries: the drone comes with two rechargeable batteries that will give you a combined flight time of 30 minutes (15 min per battery). Each battery has a usb c port built into it which is convenient. What’s not convenient is that you have to use the included usb c charger to charge the battery. I used another high end usb c charging cable and it would not charge the battery which the directions state would be the case. I’m not sure what usb c cable I would need if I lost the included cable. The control takes two AAA batteries. Drone: the drone is extremely light and I would consider it fragile. Any large drop will most likely cause damage. Although, I did crash it light twice and it was fine. The drone is equipped with 4 brushless motors, an adjustable 1080p 5 megapixel camera, and altitude hold. Theres a slot of a micro sd card (not included) and plenty of lights equipped around the drone to help see it in low light situations or guidance. Flight: flight is easy! Either hold the take off/ land button or move both joy sticks in an inner motion to fire up the engines. Once started it’s easy to fly! A few cons about flight which is why this is not an advance drone. You must always have your hands on the sticks, any wind you will need to keep a thumb on the stick to compensate so your drone doesn’t fly with the wind. I also learned never to turn off the control while in flight, did this by accident and when it happened the drone just flew off. I recommend making sure you use healthy batteries in your control. Any signs of a weak battery I would make the swap before you fly. Controller: the controller is nice and holds your phone so you can live stream your drones camera. It does make a low quality beeping sound when powering it or down. It’s also important to note that there is a speed selection switch. I like having the drone in the 2 selection spot as the drone is that much faster. Other accessories include blades, a good case, and a screwdriver. Simple but helpful!

The Snaptain S5C Elite is a pretty cool little drone. A step above entry level "toy" drones, it has good features and is a nice introduction into higher end devices. The case is pretty solid, with cutouts for all the accessories. There are two batteries that charge with USB C directly so no extra base or proprietary attachment needed. There are a second set of blades included. Unless you're already well seasoned at flying, you're going to need these. And more.. Screw driver is included as well to swap blades as well as open up the remote to add batteries. Unfortunately this isn't rechargeable as well, It takes a few AAA batteries. The remote is pretty light and cheap feeling, so when you clip your phone to it, it will be very top heavy and want to lean back on you. There are many controls and a nice template overlay to see what's what. you can easily pan the camera up and down, as well as take quick pics or videos. Pairing your phone to the drone is pretty simple, just turn on the drone and then connect your phone to the Snaptain Wifi network that is being broad cast. Once you do that, you open the app and can see the feed. Flying the drone will take practice. Fairly similar to video game FPS.. you can go up and down with the appropriate direction on the left joy stick as well as zero degree rotate left/right. Right joystick will move you forward, back, strafe left/right The controller has some built in buttons for 360 pans for wide shots, trick flips and quick launch. You can do the quick launch manually with a combination of the joysticks as well. There is an emergency button where you'd want to kill the power in case its going somewhere you can't get to to retrieve. If you do hit that button and retrieve the drone, you'll have to power cycle the drone in order to use it again. Likewise, if you hit something and the drone falls, you'll have to power cycle to use again. i'm not the best at it and a couple times i flew it into my house and a school. the battery pack and hold popped off and was hanging by the wire. i've done this over a dozen times and easily snapped it in place. on that note, you cannot buy replacement propellor blades from the manufacturer. in fact i had to go online and purchase blades for a different brand and model drone. they looked the same visually and had the same labelling style. (A1,B1,A2,B2) and the work just fine. I'm on my 3rd set because my kids and I had some learning to do. Battery life is decent, you get about 15 minutes per battery. charging isn't terribly long, but long enough you can't keep going back and forth without downtime. the camera is surprisingly better than expected. for people goofing around quick videos that don't need fine details, like sports/driving/ scenery, it'll be good. overall, fun drone for the price to get into "real drones" as opposed to little $20-$30 toys that are better suited indoors and won't be taken from the wind

Nice little starter drone. Very easy to operate it. Range and battery aren't all that great tho but it's for my 8yo son and it's perfect for him. Camera is good.

Price - 5 Camera - 4, decent image for 1080p WiFi - 3, be careful with how far up and out you go, you can easily lose connection. Default max height 20m can be increased in 10m increments to 50m. It will beep and try to warn you.

Besides the difficulty of getting the app to work. The drone is great! The pictures and video are clear. As long as the winds are light there's no trouble controlling it.

I give the drone high praises for its simple controls and ease of use, thus making it a good option beginners.

Product is exactly what you wxpect doe the price point. But the battery life is great, i easily get 20mins per battery.

Couple days of use and we’ve put it through some paces for sure. It’s stable and smooth. Quick when needed with the option of two speeds and responsive even at quite a distance.

Easy to instal. Good value for money. Light weight but sturdy.

Very good product fun to use. The only problem there were not really any instructions at all about charging the battery! That is an issue. Others than that great value and great product

This one not bad you camera 1080p I bought for my brother he’s a beginner like me haha

The camera quality was worth the price. Stability was good too.

Great beginning drone not good in wind but it's tough I wrecked it several times and it still works great

super fun and easy to use for the price well worth

Lacks precision and features of more expensive drones, but very nice for the price.

Pretty good drone. Hard to control when theres wind.

I Love it! It’s a great buy for a first time flyer.

This is good basic inexpensive drone to get started with. This is not a high end drone and you shouldn't expect it to be one for this price point. When I opened the box, it was packaged nicely, It came with a spare battery, extra propellers, and was easy to get ready to fly. I charged the battery, and put batteries that were not included into the controller, then followed the instructions for my first flight. It was easy to take off and learn to fly it. There are buttons on the controller to help control the camera, take pictures, and an area for your phone to sit so you can have a first person view. There is even a button on the controller to make the drone do a flip, making you look like you know what you're doing.There are a couple of different speed modes and I recommend that you start with the slower one until you get used to it. The drone has lights on it, a blue and a red light to help you know which direction that the drone is flying in. I could get 8-10 minutes out of a battery charge and was happy with that. This is a fun drone that will get you into the hobby without spending a lot of money. Overall it is a great drone for the price and lots of fun.