I bought about 2 years ago the E-Flight Blade CX2. It was about $200 back then. Now they are about $150. The batteries only last about 8 minutes. Each time you need to charge it, even with a better charger than what it comes with, you have to wait a couple of hours. The better charger is just that it balances charging the two or more cell battery pack.
The extra batteries I got two of where $20 a piece and they only lasted so long as far as still taking a charge. It fell short of being something that I bought had I known. I don't much use it any more.
After some many uses the batteries would not even lift the copter off the ground. Indoors is really all it is good for unless you get a bigger one and then it is not costing only $150, it is significantly more.
It was fun and I broke some parts and got replacements. I even found that if I wanted to fly in light winds outside, I would have to walk down wind with it. You can’t stop mother-nature you know. There was one way I could sometimes not have to walk it back up wind. This was by flying it low to the ground where the wind was less sometimes.
There is the bright side of being outside in the wind though.
The wind does not bother me otherwise, I like to go windsurfing. SF Bay is supposed to be N25 gusting 27 Knts today with air temp around 47 degrees F. My new wetsuit will help as I had just recently replaced my 8 year old one. It has been quite a while I have sailed waves on the Pacific Coast. I will again some day.
It can get amazingly huge out at the coast. It is surprising how some sailors go into the conditions where from the beach the top of a 15 foot mast even disappears from view when they are in a trough between large sets of waves. I’ll do just alright with 5 foot waves as only one time did I see a wave over the top of my head and the e-ticket ride began. I was OK and my rig was OK, but it is intensely tiring.
MT