so ive been building my own quads for a few years now but honestly im just tired of the process lately. work has been crazy and i just want something i can fly without spending 4 hours soldering and debugging. been looking at prebuilt 5inch options and the roma f5 keeps coming up but i dont know if its still the go-to or if somethings replaced it at this point.

my main flying is freestyle, occasionally some light racing with friends but mostly just bashing around parks and open fields. i run elrs so ideally something thats either preflashed or easy to swap over. my budget is probably around 200-280 shipped. any experience with the roma f5 or comparable prebuilts around that price range would be appreciated, especially if you actually flew one and not just read a spec sheet

had a roma f5 v2 for about 8 months, its a solid quad honestly. motors are decent, the frame holds up better than id expect for the price, and the escs havent given me any grief. elrs swap is pretty painless, just flash betaflight, rebind and youre done. the stock tune isnt terrible but it does have a bit of propwash on hard snaps, spending an hour in the filtering tab helps a lot. for freestyle in parks its more than enough and the build quality doesnt feel cheap like some other prebuilts ive handled. only gripe is the vtx is mediocre, i swapped mine out after a few months but thats pretty standard for prebuilts in this range.

ive been looking at the same thing tbh. seen some people going for the iflight nazgul evoque instead, bit more expensive but supposedly better out of the box tune. havent pulled the trigger on either one yet so cant say from personal experience but theres a decent comparison on youtube from maybe 6 months ago if you search around. not sure how current the prices are though