Received a Syma X5C quadcopter! It was on my amazon wishlist. It is awesome! Funny story... I was making a Christmas list last week and I had this written down as the first and only thing I wanted because I can never come up with ideas. I had the webpage open when my wife walked in and she is like "What the heck is that? You don't need that. You'll break it."

Then she saw my list and it was the only thing I had and we both got a kick out of it. Fast forward, to next week and this box shows up in the mail and we open it and low and behold. a Syma X5C quadcopter. Hahaha, too funny.

So I take it out of the box and take practice in the house a bit but its hard because the thing is pretty quick trying to fly it in a narrow room makes it more difficult. I decide to take it outside for the first time because I think its easier and I want to use the camera to record our house a bit for fun. I am also pretty nervous I am going to get it stuck on the roof or something.

First time outside, and I take off. It keeps going higher. I try to let it drop a bit by reducing the throttle but it starts to fall so i get nervous and crank the throttle up again, it starts going higher. I start to lose track of just how ridiculously high it started to get. At this point the wind is starting to catch it and pull it down the street. I am trying to bring the thing back to me. I drop the throttle to 0 again because its getting to high, and it starts to plummet again, I panic of course and crank the throttle back up and it goes soaring. Its about 5 houses down at this point. I drop the throttle again because this is getting out of control, it is light it should survive the fall.

Keep in mind this is all happening in about a minute. Well... it fell and got stuck at the top of one of the few trees along the street. I go inside and tell my wife and she isn't very shocked. I had to get a ladder and climb half-way up this flimsy tree with a fishing pole while my wife is in a panic that I am going to fall and break my neck and telling me how she told me that I was going to break it and never should of asked for it. All the while the neighbors whom I haven't ever met are outside getting ready to go somewhere and I am apologizing for climbing up this tree that is on the easement in front of their house...

Luckily, I eventually got it down and it survived in tact, albeit missing a very minor LED light cover. I uploaded the video to go along with thanking my Santa. Its not that interesting. Everything happens in the first minute. You can faintly hear my wife calling me an idiot towards the end.

Long story short, good gift. Would ask for again. A+