What’s up my friends—today I’m putting the Eachine E220S MD500 “little attack helicopter” through a real-world test, and yeah… it’s a pretty freaking cool $600 GPS/autonomous RC heli. Out of the box you get a nice scale case, two batteries, a 2.4GHz transmitter, spare blades, tools, and a 2–3S charger. The heli itself has that wide MD500 canopy, five-blade rotor head, LEDs, and some awesome scale details like the exhaust and that tail setup. It’s running a 3S 3500mAh pack (bigger than before), plus there’s a 5V output on the battery if you want to try FPV. In the flight portion I show you how I wait for a solid green LED and full satellite lock (I was seeing 18 satellites), then I demonstrate how stable the hover is—hands off in GPS mode. I run through rate changes, forward flight, and the big “autonomous” features: orbit (circle mode) and figure eight. I also flip into manual for higher-speed passes, and I’ll be honest: the head speed is almost kind of scary, and I did get a couple tail blowouts in hard turns. My takeaways: it’s beautiful, it flies solid in GPS/auto modes, and the return-to-home landing actually worked great. Main cons are the case/foam not fitting the heli with landing gear on, and you need to make sure that battery is locked in (I even added tape as a safeguard).