When do you think dji will bring out a match to the Yuneec Q500 Typhoon . It looks way better, has no flyaway's fly's longer and so it goes on. What do all you guy's think of your phantom. ???????? :?: :?:
tcope said:He did mention what Nidge mentioned, being able to easily kill the motors while in flight. Yeah... let's place the stop button right in the middle of the controller and only require a quick tap to stop. What could go wrong.
A buddy of mine picked up a Yuneec Q500 Typhoon a few weeks ago and he has let me fly it a few times. I must say I'm very impressed with it. I've been doing a bit of research on them since he got his, tossing around the idea of buying one myself.
I think the price is quite reasonable - same as the new Vision Plus at $1299, but the Yuneec has more bells and whistles. Also the company makes full size aircraft, and apparently much of the Blade heli and quadcopter lineup is manufactured by Yuneec and then rebranded. So they are not a new company.
I am not a photographer so my perspective is strictly from a hobbyist point of view.
The video from the Q500 is the smoothest I've ever seen - just incredibly smooth (check out the youtube videos), but the quality is not as nice as a GoPro (don't own a Vision so I can't compare), but it suits me just fine. Also the color correction is a bit off, and the videos look like the colors are over saturated (I don't mind that either), but that can be corrected post production I'm told.
There are two switches on the radio that allow one to shoot video or stills remotely from the ground, and the radio is basically built around the touchscreen Android tablet. The tablet (screen) is at the bottom of the radio, and I see a lot of people complain about that, however I've not seen a single OWNER complain about it, and I had no problem moving my eyes a few inches further down to view the screen. Not a big deal IMO. However the radio cannot be used for FPV flying as the video transmission is WiFi based and there is a significant lag when your flying more than a few hundre feet away. The screen is for framing shots and determining orientation, and it displays telemetery.
The cut off switch requires a 3 second hold to cut power to the props, is bright red and not easy to mistakingly hit. Yuneec has mentioned there will be a software update that will disengage this switch if the drone is over 2 meters AGL as a further safety feature.
The Q500 is bigger than any of the Phantoms, but people are buying a case off Amazon that measures 22" x 17" x 12.5" that fits the rig nicely. I have phantom cases bigger than that...
The follow me feature is pretty cool and if you fly in the open, a good option to have on your drone.
Also Yuneec is going to introduce a 4 K camera this spring, and I like that the camera/gimbal unit is a one-plug quick connect so you can remove it in seconds. The new camera will take less than 30 seconds to switch to, and if you order a Q500 before the end of this month, Yuneec will send you the hand held gimbal for free. They also promise to have an update this spring to enable waypoint missions.
The biggest difference I saw was how SLOW the Q500 flies - 15 mph top speed in SAFE mode - like a big lumbering hot air balloon, lol. Supposedly some owners have updated the software to fly faster and enable new flight modes. I believe you can fly slighlty faster in Angle mode which is the other out-of-the-box mode.
And it is cool looking! And the quality feels a lot more substantial than many of the other drones on the market.