{"id":16098,"date":"2020-04-01T12:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T10:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16098"},"modified":"2020-04-01T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T10:48:10","slug":"my-new-drone-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/my-new-drone-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"My new drone &#8211; first impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a good time flying my new Eachine EG16 drone yesterday afternoon. Not too many spills (the first time I made it take off I hadn&#8217;t set it up properly and it flew round-and-round in circles and finally into a tree &#8211; without damage luckily) but quite a few thrills. I&#8217;m easily excited in my old age \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do a post with more details later on but for the time being, here&#8217;s a short video that I put together from the various clips that I shot during the afternoon and gives my first impressions, which are pretty favourable.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/arqkRx_OE9Y?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The wind was quite strong and gusting so although the video bumps around a bit as a result, the drone did a pretty good job of keeping its position using its on-board GPS. I&#8217;m pleased with the video quality, especially given how much I paid for the kit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually already thinking of ordering my next model as an upgrade and putting this one onto Le Bon Coin while it&#8217;s still new. I could well get more for it than I originally paid, as I had a 30\u20ac coupon that brought the cost to me down considerably. <\/p>\n<p>Boys and their toys eh&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a good time flying my new Eachine EG16 drone yesterday afternoon. Not too many spills (the first time I made it take off I hadn&#8217;t set it up properly and it flew round-and-round in circles and finally into a tree &#8211; without damage luckily) but quite a few thrills. I&#8217;m easily excited in &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/my-new-drone-first-impressions\/\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16098"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16105,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions\/16105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}