Xiro XPlorer G

Summary

The Xiro XPlorer G is a robust, well constructed, and capable system, with a highly professional appearance. The system’s scores across many of the individual measures indicate it can be useful in conducting multirotor operations, ensuring safety, and supporting more advanced uses. The XPlorer G scored higher than average for endurance, camera quality (using separately purchased GoPro), pricing (less-expensive), utility, construction quality, and operational ease; slightly less than average for critical metrics; and less than average for maximum speed, payload capacity (not reported), communication range, accuracy and availability of reported values, and user support. The system was very responsive (overly, except in yaw), presenting a challenge to inexperienced operators during takeoff, translational and pattern flight, and landing. The system is also capable of carrying a user-configured payload, but configuration and setup with a GoPro and Xiro app was also overly complicated for new users and difficult to diagnose, using the available support materials. Given the observations from the assessment, the XPlorer G would be less appropriate to a novice operator, unless operated under direct supervision and assistance of an experienced operator. Its advanced features and capabilities, accessible and supported using a smart-device and app, can be very useful in support of indoor or outdoor aerial filming, training, or research operations.