Recent content by Dilly Joat

At least three separate risks. Flying without VLOS if cloud dense enough. Clouds are made of water droplets - fancy getting your bird wet? Some types of cloud may hide severe downdraughts, we know the H is good in wind but do you want to risk it?

Why are you so down on Yuneec? Here, in UK, Yuneec have given good service for the lifetime of the H but markets have moved on. Why do you use inaccurate examples of prices - in UK H520E costs £1389 basic and then choice of camera such as E90 at £1099 - nowhere near your $5300!

Ok - one part of firmware you may have to deal with is USA vs EU. The EU firmware uses some form of channel hopping that is not included in the USA version, and I wonder if radio tx power is also set in firmware since EU is considerably lower power that USA.

I am genuinely intrigued - are there many drones that use high current circuit breakers on all ESCs at this price point? That would protect from ESC/motor short circuits. I am sure that there are lots of other hardware protection many people would like but these things are a compromise against...

I don't know where you live but in Europe FCC mode is illegal; only CE mode is used. Different countries have different laws and in UK, for example, your drone must always be VLOS in which case the standard TX and RX are powerful enough.

Vaklin, I am a computer systems designer and I can assure you that there is not a single system on this planet that does not have issues. Can you be more specific as to why your opinion of the firmware is bad design? The logs show that battery low warning one was issued at 16:36:02 and a short...

Hello and welcome, thewesfob. A standard Typhoon H has a built in obstacle avoidance system using ultra-sonic sensors. A Typhoon H with intel probably refers to the addition of the Intel RealSense module which is an add-on that provides more sophisticated obstacle mapping and avoidance and is...

Well done, nice piece of work and thanks for photos.?:)

I don't know how the 4Hawks compares to the ITElite antenna which I have and I keep mine attached to the ST16 even in the backbag bag. I had to cut out the foam above the antenna being careful not to cut through the bag itself and was able to use a thin piece of foam to give some padding over...

Ren57 - just want to thank you for the link to Node. I hadn't heard about them before and they look like an active group that I will be happy to support. I agree with above comments on that survey - I had to start twice and falling off my chair laughing at the ludicrous questions and...

AndyP, The better manual to read is the one at the top of this forum that has been put together by experienced flyers. Also, if you are a bit technical then you will find h-elsner has done fine work in helping us to read the various log files. Go to the downloads page of his site Meine...

That was a tough introduction to the world of the H and I hope it doesn't put you off flying it after repair. The Yuneec manuals are reknowned for their lack of information and are by far the worst problem the H has. Other more experienced flyers here may be able to give better advice but as...

From the telemetry log, it appears that after you started the motors, you were in Smart mode and then switched to Return To Home mode. The aircraft obeyed this command by trying to rise up to the RTH height but at 8 metres up the motors went into Emergency shutdown and the aircraft fell to...

Flushvision, I completely agree with you about the state of UK commercial work. I am nearing retirement (should have been last year:() but my pension pot was hit very badly in the 2008 fiasco. So I thought about getting my PfCO and starting a small business to help eke out my pension...

The telemetry at 17:29:50 shows nvoltage had dropped to 14v and that you should have had two battery warnings before this. At this time, motor number 1 fails and the H does an emergency shutdown (f-mode 12). Combined with what you have said about the motor running hot, I suspect that with the...