There can be a lot to the hobby if you want to make it more fun other than a one battery pack fly.
The Free Style / Race drones are fast, watch some video's you'll see what I mean.
Craigslist can be a source for your first drone too, there are some good package deals there from hobby quitter's but don't count on the batteries of those deals, most will be useless.
So research the cost of replacements, and a good charger, the factory supplied chargers are kind of ok but minimal performance for treating your batteries.
Lipo batteries are critical to prep, like don't let them sit around fully discharged, or fully charged, get a charger that can put a "Storage" charge in the cells, don't charge a warm pack, don't fast charge a Lipo pack, look for any damage to a pack after a crash, watch for pack cell swelling.
Read up on them, before you get too far into the hobby.
By fully discharged I mean when the drone stops flying itself, that's generally around 3.4volts per cell.
Don't keep trying to take off if the drone dropped due to a low battery, once it's down then that's the end of that flight.
Battery checkers are cheap and will check the individual cells of a multi-cell pack, I have two or three that I keep in my flight box, when the drone comes down the first thing I'll do is check the pack's state of charge.
I started with an Potsenic D80 drone, having a slower longer flight, GPS makes for an very easy starter drone.
If I get confused while flying I can just let go the controls and it sits there hovering in one spot, then a few taps of the sticks and I know which way it's pointed and off I go again.
The transmitter has battery life of both the drone and Tx on the screen, nice feature, and it returns home when signal is lost or the batteries get really low, but like the guy in the video said, when it gets really low batteries it's coming back in a straight line to where it took off from last so if there's a tree or something in it's path it will hit it.
The HS200 just drops to the ground when it looses signal, not such a good thing if it's any distance away.
Color of the drone is important, black looks cool but near impossible to find in tall grass or up in a tree.
My D80 is all white but my HS is black so my statement is from experience and the grass was only about 6in tall.
The less expensive drones don't have GPS or battery life display's so you're guessing, not a bad thing as to speak once you get used to your drone.
Also the return home function of the non GPS drones is a homing in on the transmitter so make sure that flight path is a clear one.
First time I used the RH function on my HS200 it scared me a bit as that it came in like an angry bee, but stopped a few feet short and dropped to the ground,,,,,,,,
Flight times of 7min is about right for learning, gives you a chance to relax after the first few flights, on brushed type motors they need a cool down after flying, brushless motors don't really get hot unless you're racing or freestyling radically, just cruising around you can back to back flights.
I've got 9 packs for the HS200 and 7 packs for the D80.
The D80 fly's about 18min a pack and the HS is 6 to 7min per pack.
