Makerfire Armor 85 HD DVR FPV Brushless CineWhoop Drone Flight Test Review

This brushless tiny whoop drone includes a built in DVR that records 1080p full HD at 60 fps. Find it here and here is its online instruction manual
Pros
- CADDX Turtle V2 full HD camera.
- Makerfire was able to keep the weight low at 75 grams
- 40 channel 25 and 100mw switchable FPV transmitter.
- Smartaudio capability.
- Onboard DVR with 1080p 60/30 fps, and 720p 60 fps recording capability.
- Omnibus F3 FCB with OSD. FCB loaded up with Omni 3.5.4 dated 17 Dec 2018.
- With provided plug-in OSD control card, you can also modify camera settings to include NTSC/PAL, aspect ratio, WDR, resolution and frame rate, exposure, metering, FOV, light frequency, saturation, sharpness, brightness, and contrast.
- 1103 10000KV motors.
- 2S or 3S XT30 compatible (comes with 2S 400mah 30C battery).
Cons
- Not very zippy with stock 2S battery. You'll likely want to purchase an optional 3S battery to see full performance capability of this drone.
- Although easily corrected in Betaflight, I found it unusual that the drone was set to angle mode out of the box for all switch positions.
- The drone does not sit level when placed on the ground and tilts at a large angle. This creates arming problems in that the stock Betaflight will not allow arming if the drone tilts more than 25 degrees. You'll either need to increase small_angle in CLI, or simply level the drone (with any object) to correct.
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