The Blade 350 QX3 by Horizon Hobby is incredible. The technology you can pack in these little quadcopter drones is amazing. The "drone" word gets thrown around a lot, but to me, a drone is any aircraft that can fly itself with onboard navigation. The technology Horizon Hobby has in their Blade 350 QX models is called Safe Tech. This drone can be set to auto pilot with just a flip of a switch and it returns home within inches where the Blade 350 QX3 motor's started. The Safe Tech and other quadcopter or "quads" technologies use GPS, compass headings and altimeters to find their way home and keep stationary in flight. Simply take your hands off the RC transmitter and the Blade 350 QX drones will hover until an input from RC pilot is made. There are also beginner and advanced flight modes which I will get in to later on my complete Blade 350 QX3 review video.

The Horizon Hobby Blade 350 QX3 and previous versions come ready to go right out of the box after you charge the battery and bind with your Spektrum transmitter, if you bought the BNF or "bind and fly" version. The Blade 350 QX comes in a few different packages. You can either get the RTF, BNF or AP. If you already have a Spektrum transmitter then you can purchase the BNF and set it up according to your specific tx instructions included with the Blade 350 QX. I use the Spektrum DX6i. The RTF comes complete with tx specially designed for the Blade 350. The AP comes complete with a transmitter and an HD camera with 3 axis gimbal that can be controlled from the transmitter while in flight.
This Blade 350 QX3 quad is not for someone who is in a hurry to fly without any prior knowledge of RC. You must calibrate the quadcopter and understand how the controls work in different modes or this thing will fly off to who knows where. I read about the bad reviews and they were written by people who did not program their transmitter right for the Blade 350 QX or had the transmitter in the advanced mode and thought they had it in beginner mode. Basically on the Blade 350 QX you can fly without concern of the quad's orientation in beginner mode and in the advanced mode you will need to pay attention to which direction you are facing the quad. The front of the quadcopter has two red rotors and the rear has a bright LED. In both modes, you can hit the auto return to home feature that is GPS controlled and the Blade 350 QX3 with return home automatically to the place where is took off.
I think the Blade 350 QX is a great drone, quad or whatever you want to call it and if you take the time to read how it operates then you will not have any trouble. I am not a retailer and do not work for Horizon hobby and that being said, I recommend the Blade 350 QX3. Subscribe for my full review coming soon.

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