Drone-Clone Xperts X Pro LIMITLESS 5 Camera GPS 4K Drone

I’m pretty new to drone piloting and have only flown the cheaper toy-type drones. I wanted something a little more reliable and with GPS. Did a fair amount of research and this beauty was appealing to me after reading some reviews and comments on forums. I’ve taken it out a few times now and have had no issues. It was easy to setup and the FAA registration was easy too. The GPS feature seems very accurate – you can view your flight logs in the app and it maps your flight. Very cool.

I bought the extra battery with it and I use both when I fly it. I think the most I dared to go was about 30 min before changing it out. That’s plenty of time.

Video quality is great and once you get used to the app a little, it’s quite user friendly!

I haven’t tried all the features yet, like Fly Home, but I plan to try those out next time I take it out.

I would recommend this drone to anyone that’s on the fence. I’m definitely enjoying it!

I bought the Drone-Clone Xperts Limitless 5 as a replacement of my previous drone which was great but does not have FAA compliant Remote ID broadcast capabilities. I attached a remote ID module to my previous drone and after losing it in flight, I decided I needed a built in one.

The first biggest kudos for this company is the level of customer support. Even before I have the drone, the company was so willing and responsive to questions. My previous experience with customer support has been disappointing since usually it is from China and it takes a while for them to address issues. It is great that the support on the Limitless 5 is from a US company and what a top-notch service do they provide! 5 stars on the support.

Because the remote ID was crucial for me to make this purchase, this is one of the system I tested. Under the FAA registration button of the app, once you get the FAA registration, you enter it on this screen and select “Bind to drone.”. Not wanting to trust the drone software, I launched the drone and utilized my drone scanner app. This is to ensure that the drone indeed broadcasts the info required by the FAA (such as drone serial number, location and altitude, velocity, control station location, time and status). This was my first pleasant surprise. Most drone manufacturers utilize WiFi to broadcast remote ID (FAA allows WiFi and/or Blue Tooth). Since I am using the iPhone which prevented WiFi data from being read (only Station ID), I can never see drones RID from those manufacturers broadcasting in WiFi only. Much to my surprise Limitless 5 broadcasted in Bluetooth (BT 4) which is visible by my drone scanner. Granted it’s not the latest BT 5, but my app immediately recognizes the drone that’s hovering overhead. It is unknown if it also broadcast in WiFi.

The drone is very easy to control, stable but can book when the throttle is engaged, especially in sport mode. I tend to shy away from the Sport mode since I fly among buildings, and I would like the anti-collision services which you give up in Sport mode. The quality of the video captured on the SD card is excellent. The SD card interface is pretty intelligent. Through the Limitless 5 app, it will tell you if it needs formatting and will do the formatting for you. The SD card creates several directories: photo (pictures taken are stored here), thumb (thumbnail images of pictures are stored here), and video (recorded video stored here in mp4 format). 5 stars on the drone aircraft.

The next big surprise was the fact that the drone and the remote apparently utilize all the available GPS services. In my area for example, at most I can see 8 US based navstar satellites (the US based GPS service). This drone however can see 20 to 22 which indicates that they use other available GPS satellites –such as BeiDou (China) and perhaps GLONASS (Russia) and Galileo (Europe). In any case, the more satellites are used, the more accurate positioning and navigation capabilities it has. Be aware though, even the most accurate GPS has a “drift” that can be as much as ten feet. I mentioned this so that you can make sure when you take off that you are in a sufficiently large clear area since the automatic return home may not land on a dime.

The gimbal housing the camera is extremely stable. I flew the drone in a rather windy day and there’s hardly any jitter in the video. I uploaded a video and photo of the drone camera to show the stability, but keep in mind that images and video uploaded are compressed so you can never see the 4K HDR quality.

While I have not had a chance to test all features (such as distance, transmission range, enhanced video modes, etc.), all in all, I am extremely happy with my purchase of the Drone-Clone Xperts Limitless 5. You can’t beat the price. This drone has features only available in high end drones (such as collision avoidance and enhanced video). 5 stars from me.