OK JHook, remember that you asked my opinion, so I'm gonna give it to ya, but I know it's probably going to draw fire on here. Ever since the P2 and all the flyaways (yeah, I know, ...pilot error), I have cherished my P1.1.1 all the more. The lack of a smart battery and all the FW updates (limiting the usefulness) just fit the bill for me. So with the P2s, P3s (+suffixes), P4s (+suffixes), and all those other models with deadly expensive batteries and flawed firmware (according to the owners), I wanted a bigger and better drone. So I saw a video of a guy transforming a P1 into a hex. He documented his progress and problems, much like I did on the F550 Build thread, and when I saw that monster take off, I knew I was six-motor bound. I'm sure there are a lot of happy and excited P-whatever owners out there, but I enjoyed building my F550 from scratch, more than I would have if I just opened a box and pulled out an assembled bird. She flies like a dream and I can't wait to experience loops and rolls in manual mode. I got some basic aerobatic fun in with the P1.1.1, but just haven't tried it yet with the F550. The videos while doing these maneuvers should be a hoot.
Oh, ...there's one other thing. I'm just an old guy, so I'm a cell phone-tablet-smartwatch-mobiledevice hater. It's not the tech I hate (being an I.T. Specialist), it's what it's done to our culture. Watching people walk into lamp posts or down open manholes or out into traffic just irritates me (and it's got to be painful for them). Or going to the doctor and seeing EVERYONE in the waiting room with a "device" stuck in their face, just gets under my skin. When I worked for a community college teaching computer repair, one of my colleagues came to the house to visit. He brought his wife and three teen daughters, who sat on the couch TEXTING each other. That was probably what started my lack of love for these things. Anyway, that's about all I see now on the P-whatever forums, is I-this and I-that and will this phone or tablet work for this or that. If you took that away, I bet these folks would actually enjoy hands-on flying much more.
Well, I guess I'll get off the rant stump now and wait for the flames to rush in. Hey, there may even be someone else out there that feels the same way, ...who knows? OK, rebelyellNC out!