I rarely leave a review, but I just had to on this one. As the others have stated above, if you read the owners manual while charging the battery, you can take this drone straight out of the box and have it taking fantastic pictures and videos! While flying around using the app or controller like a pro, (I really like the app)But I did not do that. Never owning a drone, I thought I could just take it out and wing it and learn as I go. I literally did EVERYTHING wrong!I didn't read the manual, I did not do the 10 second compass collaboration, and I certainly did not fly it in an open area, but rather my heavily wooded property. So this review is more about the durability of this drone.I Literally beat the hell out of this thing. I crashed into trees 60 and 70 ft in the air, I hit one tree so hard that I literally knocked the SD card out of the Drone. Fortunately there was a beginner mode on by default that brought the Drone back to me and kept me from doing even more damage than I did. (and even though I never found the sd card, I found out it had also backed up the video to my phone!) I have a video of hitting a tree 70+ feet in the air, and as the drone came crashing down it was able to correct itself back upright and hover about 30 feet off the ground.But then I found the beginner mode safety features and promptly turned them off. And decided I was now good enough to really see what this thing could do!I live in Northern New Hampshire, on 24 acres with nothing but mountains and trees around. I took it up above the tree lines and without the beginner mode limits I was able to take it out of sight in no time. And I just flew it and watched the screen on my phone seeing the ground way below, but as high as it was, as it got closer to the adjacent mountain to me, the height I had it at quickly disappeared as it got closer to the mountain tree tops. As I watched the Collision with the 90+ pine tree And the bang up crash all the way down before losing video, I realized I had no idea where this even happened as I had lost sight of the Drone long before this.With 18 to 24” of snow on the ground I knew that finding the drone was highly unlikely, but I had this video that showed the ground along the way, so the next day I went out and looked for it following the video (I am now aware that there was a much easier way with the built in tracking)And there almost a half mile from my house was my drone at the base of this huge pine tree, buried halfway in the ice. I was able to chip it out and retrieve it in one piece.I was sure that the electronics must be shot as it had spent the night in -12 degrees Fahrenheit.I was amazed at the fact that it was still in one piece, and besides the scratches (that do not really reflect the true abuse I put it through) only the propellers were really chewed up.So I wanted to see what still worked and did not want to put the extra blades that came with it on yet, because I was going to order the exact same drone and would put those blades on the new one when needed.Not only did it come on, everything worked, and it flew like the propellers were fine. I was so amazed that I returned it to the ground and actually read the manual while I charged the battery. And now armed with information on how to work the drone it has been a complete pleasure to fly. It turns out that you can avoid all of that with a few clicks in settings and reading the manual.So while I know nothing about drones and can not really compare it to other drones, I do know about quality, impact stress, and gravity, and I can honestly say this thing is amazing!