Even in a survey, if you specify a 10m extension to the grid as it passes the waypoint 10m before the turn there is a little bit of a wobble/jerk and this is passing straight through the waypoint.
This flight control is just not suitable for smooth flight. If I were to be doing an inspection under waypoint control in front of a client I am pretty sure they would be worried with how the H520 flies.
When I first programmed in a survey grid, as it got to its first corner I thought it was going to drop out of the sky it stopped and turned so erratically.
I really thought that this would be something that would have been sorted.
My phantom 4 flies smoother and this is nearly three year old technology. It can have smooth radius turns. Why would a new product have worse performance than a three year old system which cost less than half of the H520.
All the functions we are asking for can be done in pix4dcapture and DroneDeploy apps.
We need Yuneec to tell us what they plan to do to address our concerns
Yuneec UK keep telling me they are fighting our corner to get these things resolved. They are very aware of them.
They have been telling me this for 3.5 months now.
Do I think changes or improvements will come?
I now do not.
I have no faith in Yuneec as a company and this was my first Yuneec product and it is most definitely my last.
It is over priced, mis sold and not fit for purpose.
We will be very lucky to see any fixes and to be honest if it was Yuneecs plan to destroy themselves this product was definitely the way to go. If this was their aim they have succeeded.
Being a Yuneec first time buyer if I was impressed by the 520 I would have shouted it from the roof tops.
However the roof top shouting has gone completely in the opposite direction. So many people have asked me should they buy the 520?
There is only one other aircraft in my opinion at this sort of money and let’s face it if you’re gonna waste £3000 you might as well chuck another £2000 at it and opt for an aircraft that is very well respected in the commercial film industry and that’s an inspire 2
That said they have issues with props falling off, motor arms falling off, battery mounts over heating. All will have a problem somewhere but at least it can fly missions with pix4d or drone deploy and take bloody good photos.
What have we with the 520?
An orange lemon.