**The FlyPro X Eagle: A Hands-Free Drone Experience**
The FlyPro X Eagle is designed to capture aerial video of you hands-free without having to rely on a second person to operate the drone. This innovative device has an attractive angular design and a low-profile charcoal color, reminiscent of a stealth fighter jet. The quad rotor design contains a gimbal action camera that can record up to 4K at 24 frames per second or 1080p at 60 frames per second, capturing pictures at 12 megapixels.
**Smartwatch Control**
The X Eagle's Smartwatch is the primary interface for controlling everything the drone does from takeoff to landing. The watch displays your altitude, radius from you, battery level, and remaining flight time when you reach 25% power. A simple press of a button on your Smartwatch will allow the drone to follow you, orbit around you, or track your movement. The watch vibrates letting you know it's time to land.
**Hands-Free Experience**
The X Eagle's camera is designed to follow your Smartwatch, allowing you to put your full focus into what you're doing hands-free and not rely on a second person to control the drone for you. Getting started with the X Eagle is simple: find an area free of obstacles like trees or buildings, place the drone facing you, turn on the Smartwatch, and then the X Eagle while it's acquiring GPS.
**Attachment and Launch**
Attach the propellers to the drone, take a step back about 15 feet, hold the takeoff button on your Smartwatch for 3 seconds, and the X Eagle will launch on its own. Control the altitude using the scroll wheel on the side of the smart watch and adjust the position of the drone around you by turning the dial on the watch face. Snap a picture by pressing the camera button and hold it in for 3 seconds to start recording video.
**Flight Experience**
The X Eagle had no problems following me around and orbiting my position, but there were times I fell out of the camera's field of view. The gimbal camera would keep track of me most of the time, but sometimes the drone was angled too much to keep me in frame. This is a prototype, so I expect this will improve with future firmware updates.
**Limitations and Precautions**
The X Eagle Sport doesn't have collision avoidance, which means if you want the drone to fly in front of you and you turn around an obstacle, the drone could strike that obstacle trying to keep in front of you. You need to be mindful of the drone while it's airborne if you're around obstacles, as you have little control over where the drone is going to land. A clever workaround I found was holding my hands out below the X Eagle and letting it land on my hands.
**Battery Life and Charging**
The X Eagle contains a 5200 milliamp hour battery, which FlyPro claims will provide 20-22 minutes of flight time. However, I averaged around 16-18 minutes, but it's not far off. The Smartwatch charger connects magnetically, which was a nice touch.
**Pricing and Variations**
There are four versions of the FlyPro X Eagle: the X Eagle Light (where you provide your own action camera), the X Eagle Sport (with an integrated 4K action camera), the X Eagle Advanced (with a two-stick remote controller and a rotating gimbal camera), and the X Eagle Professional (with collision avoidance for obstacles up to 15M away). They retail at $489, $569, $759, and $849, respectively. Early adopters who backed the Kickstarter campaign can grab the X Eagle starting at $289.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe flypro X Eagle is the most affordable 4K drone you'll find it's designed to capture aerial video of you handsfree without having to rely on a second person to operate the Drone the X eagle has an attractive angular design and a lowprofile charcoal color similar to a stealth fighter but probably without the radar absorbing skin it has a familiar quad rotor design and contains a gimble action camera that can record up to 4K at 24 frames per second or 1080p at 60 frames per second and it captures pictures at 12 megapixels and the Smartwatch allows you to control everything the X Eagle does from takeoff to Landing altitude and position orbiting around you and even following you as you're moving around both the X seagull and Smartwatch are equipped with GPS and pressure sensors and these both work together so the Drone can follow you all on its own with a simple press of a button on your Smartwatch the Smartwatch is kind of bulky especially when compared to an Apple Watch but you don't have to carry around a large remote controller for the exle to follow you the watch displays your altitude radius from you battery level and remaining flight time when you reach 25% power the watch vibrates letting you know it's time to land and that's the whole beauty of with the flypro X Eagle since the X Eagle's camera is designed to follow your Smartwatch you can put your full focus into what you're doing handsfree and you don't have to rely on a second person to control the Drone for you getting started with the X Eagle is simple find an area free of obstacles like trees or buildings and place the X Eagle facing you turn on the Smartwatch and then the X Eagle while it's acquiring GPS attach the propellers then step back about 15 ft when GPS is acquired hold the takeoff button on your Smartwatch for 3 seconds and the X Eagle will launch on its own you can control the altitude using the scroll wheel on the side of the smart watch and adjust the position of the X Eagle around you by turning the dial on the watch face snap a picture by pressing the camera button and hold it in for 3 seconds to start recording video you can tap the orbit button to have the X Eagle orbit around you or tap the follow button and the X Eagle will follow you the X Eagle had no problems following me around and orbiting my position but there were times I would fall out of the camera's field of view the gimbal camera would keep track of me most of the time but sometimes the Drone was angled too much to keep me in frame you can definitely record action footage with this but just know that not all of your footage is going to be usable this is a prototype so I expect this will improve with time with future firmware updates I'm also used to having full control of my drone so controlling the X eagle with the watch took some getting used to I I had to trust that the X Eagle was flying autonomously based off my position and wasn't relying on my inputs from a remote controller the X Eagle Sport doesn't have collision avoidance so if you want the X Eagle to fly in front of you and you turn around an obstacle the X Eagle could strike that obstacle trying to keep in front of you you have to be mindful of the X Eagle Sport while it's Airborne if you're around obstacles since the only Landing control you have is with a button touch you have little control of where the X Eagle is going to land and touching down and rugged terrain is somewhat risky I found a clever way around this however by holding my hands out below the X eagle and just letting it land on my hands and while my prototype version doesn't contain it Fly Pro claims their shipped X Eagles will have voice commands like takeoff and follow me also more premium versions will be equipped with collision avoidance detection the X Eagle contains a 5200 milliamp hour battery in flly Pro claims you'll get 20 to 22 minutes of flight time I fell a little short of that time as I averaged between 16 to 18 minutes but it's not that far off the Smartwatch charger connects magnetically and I thought that was a really nice touch there are four versions of the flly Pro X Eagle the X Eagle light where you provide your own action camera the X Eagle Sport which contains an integrated 4K action camera the X Eagle Advanced which adds a two- stick remote controller and a rotating gimbal camera and the X Eagle professional which adds collision avoidance for obstacles up to 15 M away they'll retail for $489 569 759 and $849 and early adopter who back their Kickstarter campaign can grab the X Eagle starting at$ 289 the flypro X Eagle contains a lot of features for the price and it allows people of any skill level to capture aerial video completely hands-freethe flypro X Eagle is the most affordable 4K drone you'll find it's designed to capture aerial video of you handsfree without having to rely on a second person to operate the Drone the X eagle has an attractive angular design and a lowprofile charcoal color similar to a stealth fighter but probably without the radar absorbing skin it has a familiar quad rotor design and contains a gimble action camera that can record up to 4K at 24 frames per second or 1080p at 60 frames per second and it captures pictures at 12 megapixels and the Smartwatch allows you to control everything the X Eagle does from takeoff to Landing altitude and position orbiting around you and even following you as you're moving around both the X seagull and Smartwatch are equipped with GPS and pressure sensors and these both work together so the Drone can follow you all on its own with a simple press of a button on your Smartwatch the Smartwatch is kind of bulky especially when compared to an Apple Watch but you don't have to carry around a large remote controller for the exle to follow you the watch displays your altitude radius from you battery level and remaining flight time when you reach 25% power the watch vibrates letting you know it's time to land and that's the whole beauty of with the flypro X Eagle since the X Eagle's camera is designed to follow your Smartwatch you can put your full focus into what you're doing handsfree and you don't have to rely on a second person to control the Drone for you getting started with the X Eagle is simple find an area free of obstacles like trees or buildings and place the X Eagle facing you turn on the Smartwatch and then the X Eagle while it's acquiring GPS attach the propellers then step back about 15 ft when GPS is acquired hold the takeoff button on your Smartwatch for 3 seconds and the X Eagle will launch on its own you can control the altitude using the scroll wheel on the side of the smart watch and adjust the position of the X Eagle around you by turning the dial on the watch face snap a picture by pressing the camera button and hold it in for 3 seconds to start recording video you can tap the orbit button to have the X Eagle orbit around you or tap the follow button and the X Eagle will follow you the X Eagle had no problems following me around and orbiting my position but there were times I would fall out of the camera's field of view the gimbal camera would keep track of me most of the time but sometimes the Drone was angled too much to keep me in frame you can definitely record action footage with this but just know that not all of your footage is going to be usable this is a prototype so I expect this will improve with time with future firmware updates I'm also used to having full control of my drone so controlling the X eagle with the watch took some getting used to I I had to trust that the X Eagle was flying autonomously based off my position and wasn't relying on my inputs from a remote controller the X Eagle Sport doesn't have collision avoidance so if you want the X Eagle to fly in front of you and you turn around an obstacle the X Eagle could strike that obstacle trying to keep in front of you you have to be mindful of the X Eagle Sport while it's Airborne if you're around obstacles since the only Landing control you have is with a button touch you have little control of where the X Eagle is going to land and touching down and rugged terrain is somewhat risky I found a clever way around this however by holding my hands out below the X eagle and just letting it land on my hands and while my prototype version doesn't contain it Fly Pro claims their shipped X Eagles will have voice commands like takeoff and follow me also more premium versions will be equipped with collision avoidance detection the X Eagle contains a 5200 milliamp hour battery in flly Pro claims you'll get 20 to 22 minutes of flight time I fell a little short of that time as I averaged between 16 to 18 minutes but it's not that far off the Smartwatch charger connects magnetically and I thought that was a really nice touch there are four versions of the flly Pro X Eagle the X Eagle light where you provide your own action camera the X Eagle Sport which contains an integrated 4K action camera the X Eagle Advanced which adds a two- stick remote controller and a rotating gimbal camera and the X Eagle professional which adds collision avoidance for obstacles up to 15 M away they'll retail for $489 569 759 and $849 and early adopter who back their Kickstarter campaign can grab the X Eagle starting at$ 289 the flypro X Eagle contains a lot of features for the price and it allows people of any skill level to capture aerial video completely hands-free\n"
