Altair Aerial Dagger Review
The Altair Aerial Dagger is a well-designed drone by Altair Aerial. Altair Aerial is a pretty big producer in the drone market with some very successful models especially on sites such as Amazon. Altair Aerial Dagger tries to satisfy not only beginners but more experienced drone pilots as well.
The Altair Aerial Dagger not only offers a 4K video quality and gives you a 90-degree tilt gimbal for more creative shots. The Aerial Dagger comes with powerful brushless motors, and thanks to its light materials you can fly without registering with the FAA.
With its aerodynamic shape and its good quality propellers and motors, the Altair Aerial Dagger is a pretty fast drone, perfect for those who are looking for a fast drone and its other good qualities. The Altair Aerial Dagger also does a great job of flying steady from calm skies to a bit of windy weather.
Credit to Altair Aerial
But before we talk about its features, what comes in the box of the Altair Aerial Dagger? Inside the box, we can find the Altair Aerial Dagger drone with the remote controller, 1 set of replacement propellers, an intelligent battery, an intelligent battery charger, a USB charging cable, some tools (screwdriver, etc.), and a user’s manual.
Altair Aerial’s controller is also pretty good, and it’s comfortable and easy to use with its dual handles, above the controller you can put your smartphone of all sizes when it runs out of battery you just need to charges it with its charging cable.
In this blog, we review the Altair Aerial Dagger specifications, features, modes, and an overall view of this drone to give you great helpful information about it.
Pros
≫ Foldable drone
≫ Can fly as far as 300m (985ft)
≫ Good for beginners and experienced users
≫ Comes with a 4K camera
≫ Good flight stabilization
≫ Good flight time up to 15min
Cons
≫ SD Card up to 32GB
≫ Flight and video quality is average
Technical Specifications
The Altair Aerial Dagger drone uses a built-in underneath the drone 4K camera to get nice stable videos with your action camera. The Altair Aerial Dagger can go as far as 300m with a transmitter range. It also has powerful 1500 mAH batteries.
This drone also comes with rechargeable 1500 mAh batteries. The Altair Aerial Dagger drone allows you to fly up to 15 minutes when they’re charged and takes about 120 minutes to charge.
The camera on the drone is able to take pictures at 3840×2160 pixels and 3840x2160p video thanks to its 1/2.7 inch CMOS sensor. It uses a 120° FOV lens with an f/2.5 aperture, and a focal length of 3.6mm. The video bitrate can go up to 20Mbit and a transmission bitrate of 2Mbit.
The Altair Aerial Dagger supports up to 32GB SD cards, it supports Class 10 FAT32 SD cards. For the photo format, it uses a JPEG format, as for the video format, it uses MP4 format, and compressed format H.264.
≫ Flying Time: 15 minutes
≫ Uses 1500mAh batteries
≫ Maximum speed up to 10m/s (35ft/s)
≫ Operating Temperature: -10º to 40º Cº
≫ Weight: 250g (9 oz)
≫ Dimensions: 24 x 23 x 55 cm
≫ Maximum flight distance: 300m (985ft)
≫ Image Resolution: 3840×2160
≫ Operating Frequency: 2.4GHz, 5.15GHz
≫ SD card up to 32GB
≫ Automatic height stabilization via GPS
≫ Automatic return home
≫ Low battery alarm
≫ Gimbal controllable range: Tile 0° to -90°
Video and Flight Stabilization
The Altair Aerial Dagger comes equipped with a 4K camera which will give you pretty good-looking footage, the camera is mounted on a gimbal which lets you rotate from 0° to -90° degrees, the gimbal will keep the footage steady.
The image quality on the Dagger is pretty good, it offers pretty good natural colors with a FOV of 120° wide-angle lens that can be manually tilted 90°.
The Aerial Dagger comes with Optical Flow Creation System that uses a lens mounted under the drone to ensure safer flights every time it takes off and provide better stabilization while flying.
The Dagger drone features four powerful brushless motors. Brushless motors are more efficient and require less battery power to operate, and they don’t wear out as quickly as their brushed counterparts.
Battery
The Altair Aerial Dagger comes with a rechargeable 1500 mAh battery which you can charge with the USB Battery Charger, which can last about 15 minutes, it will take about 2h to charge them.
The battery is situated at the bottom inside, where there is a cover that gives access to the battery. You can also always buy separate batteries for it and change them whenever the first battery runs out.
Design
The Altair Aerial Dagger has an elegant modern design, it is well built with good quality plastics which feel pretty resistant, and it has a nice black color with some blue. The Altair Aerial Dagger is capable of being fold to be carried easier.
Its design is the classic quadcopter look with 4 propellers similar to most drones such as DJI, it feels pretty tough and has the ability to get wet without any problem. If one of your propellers got damaged you are able to replace and switch them.
The dimensions of the Altair Aerial Dagger are 60.96 x 17.78 x 48.26 cm (24 x 7 x 19″) and weighs 250g (3.18lbs), all the adjustments and controls will be made from the controller. It can fly up to 300 meters with the transmitter connection.
The Altair Aerial Dagger comes with 4 replaceable propellers without any protection propellor guards, under the body we can see small landing legs, below we see the action camera mount with a gimbal holding it for stable videos.
Modes and Features
The Altair Aerial Dagger comes with many modes and features to improve your flying experience and make it easier for beginners.
The Aerial Dagger has three different smart home return functions: One-touch low power return or out-of-range return. Whether your drone loses connection to the transmitter or runs low power, the Dagger drone is designed to safely return to its point of origin.
The remote controller on the Altair Aerial Dagger is high-end as well giving you access to all of its controls. It fits well in your hands and you can easily see what’s happening with the high-brightness 5″ FPV screen display for live video.
The Altair Aerial Dagger also comes with a smartphone app that you can easily install and take control of the drone and fly with it and control its features and modes.
My opinion
The Altair Aerial Dagger drone is a great quality-budget drone, I definitely recommend getting it if it offers what you are looking for. The Altair Aerial Dagger has all the basic drone features and more, as well as good flight, battery, and features.
The Altair Aerial Dagger is pretty easy to learn and will get you all those great aerial shots you would want in a drone with the 4K camera even in mildly windy conditions, it also carries a 1500 mAh battery which will give you plenty of time to record an amazing flight distance.
This drone has many positive reviews from many people and we recommend getting it if you are looking for a great budget drone, we hope this review was helpful.
Review Breakdown
Waterproof drone with a mounted 4K camera. Can fly fast up to 20m/s as far as 300m up to 15 minutes, comes with many useful modes. It comes with a light foldable design
