Our favourite Quadricopter has had a mini-markeover, new design, a bit curvier around it’s midriff and a bit stronger for those early days, most of the new V2.0 stuff isn’t cosmetic. Announced at CES in Vegas there are a couple of alterations/updates to the AR – AR.FreeFlight 2.0 offers up a new flight interface for your smart device, across Android and iOS and full WiFi control of your copter. The camera is updated to HD quality, you can save ALL flight data (altitude, speed, duration and place, and AR Drone academy for Geo-location of the best flight zones. A new ‘Absolute Control’ mode gives the amateur a slightly easier introductio, think basic “point and fly” autopilot, it uses a 3D magnetometer, and who are we to argue that this’ll work. You can, after some time in the air revert to the Relative Flight mod and disable the magnetometer function, old school flying style. No word on price yet but Q2 this year for arrival in the UK.
















