DEERC RC Plane, 2.4GHZ Remote Control Airplane W/ 3 Batteries & 6-axis Gyro Stabilizer, 2CH RTF RC Glider Toy for Beginners Kids Boys Girls Adults

Wow! This is such a fun little plane. We ended up buying 3. They were already put together. Only needed to add batteries for the controller. Very easy to learn to fly. Easy to sync to the control. In order to sinc everyone with the same type plane. You only need to sync one plane, then the next one and then the next . . . And we were all flying at the same time. They are so durable and never gave any problems. We've crashed them lots of times and nothing got broke. We had a blast, Dad and 2 kids having a mini dog fight trying to crash into each other. They are made of a durable foam and about 10- 12 inches long. Each one comes with 3 batteries and a USB charger cable. The batteries charge up quick and automatically shut off when fully charged

Our 7 year old grandson loves flying this plane around his back yard. It flies slow through the air and is easy to control and keep close at hand. It can be hard to control if there is any wind which can blow it away from you so it is best to fly it when it is calm. It is durable and stands up to the carefree use of a young child. With no landing gear it still takes off from virtually any flat surface that is at least a couple feet long. You can also launch it by hand but our grandson likes to launch it off of different types of platforms and objects pretending they are an aircraft carrier or whatever. The three supplied batteries have worked out great, I just wished the battery compartment was a little bigger so it would be easier to install the battery, connector and connecting wire inside the battery compartment. All in all this has been a great purchase that has occupied our grandson for hours of fun and running around the back yard so far.

My use case is that of a beginning hobbyist.IMHO the mosst critical skill in learning to fly is "Orientation". If the plane is flying directly away from you and you want it to turn right, you move the airleron and/or rudder stick to the right. OTOH, if it is flying directly towards you and you want it to turn in that same direction, you have to move stick(s) to the left.... and so-on and so-forth for various orientations in-between.You have to get those stick movements burned in to your lower brain stem - right next to tying your shoe laces - in order to avoid Bad Things from happening.This plane is good for that: it can be flown in my 40x100 foot front yard and is has survived dozens-if-not-hundreds of crashes.If somebody would sell a plane like this with 4-channel control (rudder, airleron, and elevator) I would pay twp hundred bucks for it without even thinking twice..... but, as-is, this plane does the job of letting me train my thumbs and lower brain stem to do the right thing to turn planes in the desired direction purely by reflex.This thing wants still air or close to it. Given that, it is exactly what I wanted: a slow backyard flyer. Not a "Floater", but close enough.You are *not* going to surf a breeze like with one of the deltoid EPP models because it will just kite away. Mornings and evenings are the ticket.The battery compartment could use some work. As it is, the battery just barely fits and the user has to spend some time cramming in the wires and connectors.My workaround has been to replace the battery compartment door with a strip. of cloth tape and some velcro. This allows use of batteries up to 300 mAh. My exlerience has been that it flys best on 250s.... 300 and it labors, 150 and it's tail-heavy... still flies, but nose up...Still, it *does* flywith a 300mah battery (which I happen to have a supply of).You *will* eventually lose the landing gear because it is held in place only by friction. What it needs is a little notch in the wire that clicks into place on a nub where it inserts.Five stars except for the battery compartment and landing gear.

**NEW**Hack: Used a paper clip(s) to make my own landing gear replacement(s).Warning: if the controller is turned off or goes out of range, the plane will continue with the last input - and keeeeeeeps flying… which explains my first outing (story time below) when it went waaaayyyy outta range.Paper Clip story:The landing gear came off after the fifth outing. The plane flew fine without it, but we didn’t like that it would crash on the switch (which is located on the belly of the plane), and could potentially slam into hard or wet surfaces. So I found a small paper clip that was about the right gauge of the original landing gear, and it seems to work fine as an expendable replacement. And now that we’ve been at it a few times, the kiddo is better at flying longer (landing it less), and landing more softly, so we aren’t losing them as often. The landing gear slot doesn’t have a locking mechanism, so we the landing gear (replacement) still comes off, but I don’t have to get in as much of a tizzy because I know we can replace it. No, I didn't try making/replacing wheels cuz I didn’t have anything light enough (yet). You can’t do a rolling takeoff from the ground… but we couldn’t really do it with the original wheels anyway, so not that big of a diff.It’s been about a 30 - 45 min outing with the three fully charged batteries.**Original Review**The plane is super easy to fly. My seven year old learned to how to take off and land in a few tries. I was pleased that he was very interested in reading the instructions as normally he doesn’t want anything to do with books/learning. The pack also comes with spare propellers, three batteries for the plane, and two chargers (standard USB connector) for the plane batteries; you will need to supply 3 AA batteries for the controller. You have the ability to turn off the (what was once annoying) lights underneath the plane if you want to. We left ours on - it saved the plane! Recommend you write your name, contact info on it… the range on it is too good! 🤣Story time!!!So… we learned a good weather lesson the day after Christmas when the plane took off and didn’t come back. We were in a nice open park, no obstructions for 200 ft around. But once the plane climbed higher than the surrounding trees it was gone. The wind picked it up and the plane accelerated towards the edge of the park. I prompted my kiddo to bring it back, he showed me that he no longer had controls of the plane - we had lost the ability to control direction of flight. My heart sank. I aimed the camera in the direction of where I saw it last a few extra seconds and stopped recording. After putting on my best brave face, we changed our gears into a search and rescue mission. We reviewed the video - found a flash of neon pixel spiraling down (I had never been so happy to be proven wrong about something - the lights are a must when you’re looking for the darned thing), and launched our door to door campaign to recover our favorite present. After meeting thirtyish of our neighbors looking for our downed aircraft, I was about ready to call it quits, and started drafting the “lost airplane” poster in my head. That’s when the Boxing Day Miracle happened. I looked up at the next neighbor’s roof. No way! There was our plane. 750 ft away … it managed to land not in the trees, not in a yard, but on an street-side-eave of the last house we checked. It was a tearful reunion of joy.I’m not flying for a while. But when I do, imma write my “Return to…” info before takeoff.If you’ve got a way to track it… do it.