What beginner drone should you buy in 2019

Drones are the masters at getting incredible aerial shots. But if you don’t have any experience with them they can be a little tricky, this is why we decided to pick and review great beginner drones to anyone that wants to get started with the hobby.

From just taking some simple shots and flying for fun to using them to take high-quality professional photos and videos, and improving every day in specialized activities, such as inspection of towers and skyscrapers.

Drones today represent a market close to 15 billion dollars and have had an exponential growth due to the applicability of this equipment in many areas and tasks that previously seemed impossible to replace. You should keep in mind that currently the United States Department of Defense, as well as many other agencies worldwide, have limited conditions and only allow drones in open and legal spaces.

Is there anything better than having a drone? Yes, having a drone and an action camera to get both perspectives, the sky, and the ground. There are also a lot of drones that allow you to mount your action camera in them, for example, the GoPro Karma Drone and a lot of other ones.

Check out our GoPro Hero 7 review or our best cheap GoPro alternatives on today’s market.

Ryze Tello

Ryze Tello is a DJI mini drone and one of the best today. the drone is equipped with a 5 mp camera to record high-resolution videos, a perfect stabilization system, and high-quality materials. It is compatible with VR, fly in an incredible first-person view.

You can launch it from the palm of your hand and take awesome pictures of yourself, with great image quality and without having flown a drone before, get impressive videos and videos. The Ryze Tello is controlled from a mobile device, compatible with both Android and iOS and is also compatible with Bluetooth radio control knobs.

The Ryze Tello comes with some awesome features as well like, 8D somersaults
Swipe on the screen with a smartphone to make great aerial somersaults, automatic stabilization to get smooth shots, automatic landing, battery protection and many more.

The Rylo Tello comes equipped with brush motors, that is, these motors are not as powerful as those without brushes, also known as brushless. This makes the drone less dangerous in case of an impact on a person. In addition, the DJI Tello drone comes with propeller protectors, which not only protect these but also protect ourselves.

It’s capable of flying up to 13 minutes which is standard for this type of mini-drones and can go as far as 100m max distance of flight

Check out the Ryze Tello (Amazon): https://amzn.to/2XtyPlm

Force1 F100 Ghost

The Force1 F100 Ghost is a great beginner drone for anyone wanting to start out, it has all the basic features you need on a drone. Pretty good flight time, a camera and a camera mount, great budget-quality, and awesome features as well.

The Force1 F100 Ghost design is simple and elegant, it has a dark-black color and also a white color version. It has 4 protectors on the propellers to keep it from getting hit or hitting someone, and the brushless motors provide an ultra-quiet flight with a smooth landing.

As we mentioned earlier this drone comes with an action camera mount to mount your sports cam without any problem and without dragging its performance down which is a great feature. The camera is 1080p Full HD but I recommend getting an action camera to get better results if you don’t have any be sure to check out our reviews or our review about the best cheap GoPro alternatives on today’s market.

It also comes with two-speed settings, very useful for beginners users and more experienced flyers. It is also a great drone to go fast and race since it can go quite fast.

It’s capable of flying up to 15 minutes due to its double LIPO battery and lightweight, enough time to get some awesome looking shots and perform 360-degree stunts. The maximum range of it is 500m.

Check out the Force1 F100 (Amazon): https://amzn.to/3nEBEL0

Altair AA108

The Altair AA108 is a great drone for beginners. It’s a cheap budget drone with a 720P camera with many features such as easy fly-mode (great for beginners) live transmission, and many more.

It’s a strong and well-built drone, it comes with protection on the propellers to stop it from hitting something or someone. The carefully-constructed design of the AA108 gives this drone a more stable hover than its competition, and the aircraft can even land itself when the battery’s about to run out or if it stops communicating properly with the controller.

AA108 comes with a built-in 120° wide-angle 720p HD camera that takes amazing photos and videos in birds’ eye view right from your phone or mobile device, being a low-budget drone don’t expect to get professional 4K resolution footage but it’s great for people starting out and wanting to try.

Another great feature is the VR compatibility. You can connect your VR goggles (not included with it) and fly in first person FPV.

It’s capable of flying up to 10 minutes, which is pretty good with its price, it also comes with a 2n battery included in the box to quickly change it and continue flying with your drone. And has a transmission range up to 100m away.

Check out the Altair AA108 (Amazon): https://amzn.to/3oApsfv

Altair 818 Hornet

Another great drone from Altair, this drone is an improved version of the Altair AA108. It comes with many awesome features, a 720P HD resolution camera and more!

It comes with 3 flight settings, the first level is an easy flight mode great more for beginners, the second flight setting is more of a medium level and a high-level for more experienced users.

The Altair 818 Hornet comes with 4 big propellers with protection to keep it from getting hit or hitting someone with crashing and also many more safety features, when the battery is low you will hear the low battery alarm, as well as an out of range alarm and an emergency landing.

As well as the AA108 you can also use this drone for live-transmission and FPV making it one of the best low-budget beginner drones with all of the basic features camera and great flight duration and skill level

It’s capable of flying up to 15 minutes which is pretty good, it also comes with a 2n battery included in the box to quickly change it and continue flying with your drone. And has a transmission range up to 150m away and 60m when connected to a phone or a tablet.

Check out the Altair 818 Hornet (Amazon): https://amzn.to/3i4ZluM

DJI Spark

The DJI Spark is the best drone that adapts to all skill levels. DJI is a big drone brand with a lot of different types of drones, the most knows drones are the DJI Phantom, DJI Mavic Pro, and more.

It’s an easy drone to fly and comes with a lot of safety features, flight autonomy, return to the point of origin, flight protection and smart battery. The lower part of the Spark captures images of the area surrounding the point of origin and takes these reference images during the RTH to achieve a safe landing.

The Spark also comes with a camera on the front, it uses a sensor 1/2.3″, with 12 MP and can record up to 1080P at 30fps. FPV and live-transmission is also a very useful feature the drone has. Another great feature of this drone is the gesture control, which lets you take amazing aerial photos with gestures with your hand, without remote control or mobile device.

Of course, being a medium-end drone doesn’t expect a camera like the DJI Phantom but it definitely meets the basic requirements and gets good video quality and pictures. The camera comes with a small gimbal which stabilizes the footage pretty well. Spark includes all the shooting modes of previous DJI drones and adds two new modes: Pano and ShallowFocus.

It’s capable of flying up to 16 minutes and get amazing footage, it can go up to 50 km/h. And has a transmission range up to 2km which is amazing.

Check out the DJI Spark (Amazon): https://amzn.to/2MPS7iF

Conclusion

We hope this blog post about best beginner drones was helpful to you and that you have fun flying your first drone or your new drone! Check out the other sections of my blog for more reviews about action cameras or other drones you might want.

However, remember this is low to medium budget drones so don’t expect any professional looking footage or high-quality drones. We will continue to look for these specialized drones as they evolve, we will test them as they become available.