Hi guys.
OK so I realize most of you are into more serious machines than the Alias or the Vista. But I'm looking at getting into a quad. I've seen videos of a very cool piece it - build it FPV racing quad you can piece together for a couple hundred bucks, including video gear. But having had a not-so-good experience with the Estes micro quad I got a year ago, and never managed to fly it very well at all, I'm kinda gun-shy about trying it again.

It seems, tho, that since then, flight controllers have gotten much better, and models like the Alias and Dromida's Ominus and new Vista are much more noob friendly and easier to learn to fly. Additionally, they are even coming out with inexpensive FPV cameras for these models that transmit on Wi-Fi freqs so an iPhone or Android-powered smartphone can display the video. This sounds very attractive to me.

However, I've been reading reviews of both these models, and they are not without their issues. The Alias seems to have motor failure issues, like, the motors crap out after a handful of flights. And the Dromida models have FC issues that make the units with faulty FCs almost impossible to fly, while the ones that don't have faulty FCs seem to fly very well. It also sounded like these failures may have been initial releases of faulty hardware, and that newer releases don't have these issues, but I've not been able to determine that for sure. (Most of what I read/saw was on other forums, review sites, and YouTube.) What have you guys been hearing about this? Anything?