THIS Happened AFTER a BAD REVIEW? 

www.patreon.com/uavfutures if just one person bought me a coffees worth here it would be a 5% MONTHLY increase in income ...

It is critical for beginner kits that cost $200+ to get it right. If a company takes advantage of a vulnerable customer for a quick buck, I won’t even bother looking at their premium products. That said, BetaFPV has done great things pushing micros to another level, but needs to go back to the drawing board on this one. ☝️

i get what you're saying about having all the channels is not beginner friendly, but beginners can learn down the road and it would be better to have those channels accessible in case you get interference. imagine you get this and the 4 preset channels are all static in the area you want to fly? instead i would suggest a beginner/expert setting to unlock advanced features.

Good on you stew for telling it like it is, and also good on beta fpv too for taking your advice and listening to your feedback. Sometimes a company will make an error in what they put out for the public, some will try to gaslight you for not liking your opinion, but with them being flexible enough to send you an updated product shows that they are willing to pay you respect for your opinion. That will not just help people to avoid a lousy product, but it will actually make them get more sales as they make improvements to their products and that’s good business.

I had a great experience with them as a company even after breaking the quad they sent me in one of my videos. I even went and bought a meteor 65 pro as my first analog quad and it’s become my favourite whoop to fly indoors with

Any beginner RTF FPV kits you would recommend other than Betfpv? Would the EMAX TinyHawk III kit be a better option for someone just starting out?

Hi Stu, i notice you have a radiomaster pocket, as do i, and i only recently found out that i could adjust the tension on the gimbals. I tightened them up a lot and my precision in flying 5" drones greatly increased due to finer modulation of the sticks. Do you have any advice around gimbal tension, is too tight a bad thing, is it completely user preference. I am forever tightening my throttle tension as i think it loosens all the time.

I got the Cetus kit for my son, the brushed one. Pretty happy with the kit as a whole, he enjoys flying it. My one gripe is the vtx switch. It would be much better if it was a limited range of channels as you said or if it set the vtx to scan the channels. I know some of the Cetus quads have extra features like the sensors in the bottom for the position and altitude hold which is why the run custom firmware, but I’m sure you could find a way to implement those same features into Betaflight.

Cetus X was my first drone, like 2 years ago.

Yo stu first off all you look freaking good buddy.. Second. I rly like the way you did this review they way you adress the things you think is wrong (googles and reciver) and talk directly to to company of what is bad and what is good rly nice to hear then you can also bring that into conciderration if you are looking to buy the porduct.. Top notch review keep em comming.. All love from denmark..

I had a less positive experience communicating with betafpv years ago when I accepted a couple of their early drones for review. Glad to see they're at least taking feedback a little more seriously, but I still think with how much success they've had, it's really unfortunate how little effort they still seem to put into ideation, innovation, and quality control... I'd say they're personally my least favorite company in the FPV space.

Would love to see Foxeer response to the weak 2306.5 bells... The stators seem to be amazing, and magnets, etc... I love Foxeer btw

In my experience BETA FPV just deletes bad reviews. Gave them a 1 star review on the store for the LiteRadio 3 Pro after i bought 2 of them and they went up in smoke while charging with a standard usb charger from Anker, that i charge everything with. If you need a special charger to charge the damn thing, the charger should come with the radio. Anyway, the review never went online. That's one way to only have 4 and 5 star reviews on your page.

Good customer service doesnt change the fact that all 3 of the meteor75 pros i bought died within 3 weeks.

I bought both my grandsons radio Master pockets and akeelah 16 drones for Christmas and when I tried to get them set up with the radios the modes didn't match so I downloaded the beta fpv configurator and it worked on one of their older light transmitters but it would not connect to drone no matter what and I had all the correct drivers and every time I ask them about their configurator all I got in return was another question like why do you need to hook it to the configurator... After a month I gave up

my flew out of the box fine. ofc this chanel switch is a pain but other then this was realy great

I went with the Cetus X kit for my first FPV kit and it was definitely a mistake. I used it for a week or two then switched to a tinyhawk 2 freestyle kit and haven’t touched the Cetus since.

Good job

A number of years ago I bought a betafpv all in one advanced kit for my son. It had a meteor 75 running their proprietary silverware firmware. My son of course crashed the quad numerous times being a nub and I ended up having issues with the aio board. After much searching I was able to get a replacement aio from betafpv but then the same thing happened again and that board was then obsolete. We also found all the vtx channels on a radio switch a real challenge to figure out. It was also really difficult to convert the entire kit over to something more common like beta flight or quicksilver. I feel the whole proprietary silverware eco system they have in place is a big mistake. They should setup a beginner quad with a basic beta flight setup so that the user doesn’t need to touch it unless they want down the road or just go with a quicksilver setup for these beginner whoop style setups. Not a fan of their silverware ecosystem they currently have going.

Could‘ve used other words. Respect Betafpv ✊ As reviewing products, curtesy of the company should be taken. A small letter explaining your opinion and correction spots to the company would’ve been enough. I fly Betafpv and enjoy it. It’s your problem isn’t it if you don’t 🤦🏻‍♂️ Try other drone companies.

The issue with these "reviews" by the YT "reviewers" is the fact NOT everyone likes the same things nor expects the same thing I fly many small quads that many reviewers claim was junk and I have a blast with them. Most of my "fleet" is discontinued products . I own several that are not but many are ones so many claimed were so bad . It is like beauty , it is in the eyes of the beholder, well with "quads/kwads" it is all about the individuals own desires, thoughts, perception and needs . For example DJI is great tech, BUT I will not give them one dime for many reasons as you know, but that is my own position and I do not expect it from others although I wish more would consider the same stance...but to each there own. I watched many reviews about that system and many love it, and some did not ,so again to each there own and it is an individual decision in my opinion .

It's nice that they listen to you when something doesn't work, unfortunately for the rest of us we aren't as lucky when something is DOA from them.

In Hungary it is so expensive that it would cost you a total of 2,800 dollars! pfff ...

Those betafpv controllers are defective too, I tried to use one for a sim and my throttle became intermittent and started jumping around. I thought it was the sim or something else until I traced it down to the controller. I learned this was a common problem. They need to stop selling trash, they do it a lot, they're destroying their reputation.

I have there pavo series drones and they are some of the best on the market, as for there radio nothing wrong with it i also have one of there radio's elsr version the pro one and it works great, Betafpv have come a long way and there products are good for new to experienced people, your not wasting your money buying there products.

These RTF kits in the $200-$300 range are so terrible. I sat down and listed every reason why buying one was a possibly good idea. So few of those reasons actually came true to the point that I feel scammed. Mainly, I hoped to be able to learn repair skills that would carry over into building a full sized quad. But that prospect is denied by proprietary, overpriced and never in stock electronics. Once you fry one of these, your money is gone and repair is either impossible or not worth it.

meanwhile for normal users shipment took 3 months

Personally I've had a terrible experience with beta fpv products.

Just starting this video and yes.. BOTH cetus are HORRIBLE.. carry on lol. UNPAUSE

Did they make you sit on a potato ??..🤔😳

Betafpv is the worst company in FPV history. Just a fakt.

I have had 50/50 luck with them with certain things. I won't buy like ep2 elrs receivers, but I have afew elrs modules that rock even a1watt from the first days of elrs still rocking hard. I says good job betafpv on thier reply is better than the alternative reply.... I'll give them a chance with certain products they're a good company.. great review also.