GT3 Drone

 

This Chinese knock off of the DJI Neo is a fraction of the price of the original, but is it worth purchasing?

That's a question I have been asking myself for some time. 

After watching a lot of YouTube reviews and considering I could pick one up off ebay for a cost of between £16.25 - £23.50 it seems like a no brainer, just to buy it and try it.

After purchasing it in December and thinking that anything under 250g didn't need a CAA Operators Licence, the government brought in legislation on the 1st January 2026 to the effect that you now need to take and pass a theory test, pay an annual fee for what is effectively a child's toy!. 

All in the name of legality and safe drone operations. I suspect nothing to do with it, just another way of  generating more funds for the government.

My drone has arrived and I have unboxed it and downloaded the KY UFO software to be able to take photographs and I have had a couple of practice flights inside my house, and come a dry calm day I will be giving it a trial over my allotment, out in the open to try and get the aerial shots than I can no longer get via the 4th floor of the flats behind my allotment, as the people I knew have emigrated. 

If the GT3 drone works and gives me the results I'm looking for, then I will take the test and pay the annual £15 licence fee. If not it's an indoors toy I don't need a licence to fly it in my house.   

The GT3 is also sold under the names of D16, V66 and i1Pro, the colour of the plastic sometimes changes, and one version is available in red and orange. 

The manual that comes with the drone is in English and Chinese, I have scanned it rubbed out the Chinese and corrected a couple of spelling errors in the English. I've placed it below as I would have liked to have seen the manual when I was researching the drone, but all the sources on line looked iffy sites that one would not want to linger at.