Ordered on of these as a birthday present and ordered one for myself as well. I was a little skeptical about this at first but after crashing it all over the house a few times, I finally got dialed into the controls and the thing flies super well. It's very responsive and handles strong winds well. A couple of things worth noting that are not clear in the instructions. First, it must be on a flat surface when you turn on the transmitter to bind it to the quadracopter otherwise it will drift badly. Also the top left button cycles through different control sensitivity levels in 20% increments. 20% barely allows you to control it at all and is fairly worthless. 40% is good for beginners. 60-80% is good for normal flying. 100% is for doing loops and not much else. The battery lift is a bit brief but that's to be expected on these type of flying machines.