Uhrito,
You gained a truck load of credibility by coming back and starting this thread. Please permit me to share some competitive system marketing background with you to clarify where those of us flying the H may be coming from.
For personal history, I have a whole bunch of multirotor experience, pretty mush with all the major consumer brands except Autel. I'm a designer, builder, and user and have been for some time. I have two H's with a total of about 190 flights between them.
One maker, DJI, has made it a point to go on widespread defamation campaigns with every new competitor's product that comes out on the market. It's not just a few people here and there or a couple of threads, but literally hundreds of people suddenly pop up in every social media forum that appears to be discussing new competitive products. It does not matter that a thread might be titled and "owners" thread, or that a product has not yet been released to the public, they are there tearing the new product apart. Generally the mis-state the so called deficiencies they are describing, or they make statements about defective components that just are not true. I can point you to one forum where they have so much control over the owner that a thread specifically titled Typhoon H Owners features a video and caption from a DJI Phantom as the featured image. They have done this on Facebook, You Tube, RCG, YuneecPilots, YuneecForum, and any other location where a group of people gather to discuss non DJI products. They've done this with 3DR, Yuneec, and Autel.
The purpose is to promote DJI, and only DJI, at the expense of the other brand names. It does not matter that they lie, distort, "misspeak" misrepresent or anything else. They don't care as long as the letters DJI are in the public eye as many times as possible. The game is to control the market and to make one man very, very wealthy. The company has even gone so far as to retain the best sUAS attorney the multirotor community ever had to attempt reshaping U.S. airspace and equipment requirement laws to their advantage. If you take the time to read all the disclaimers that come with a new DJI product you might begine to see what I'm talking about.
The Typhoon H is extremely reliable and does exactly what it was designed to do. It is a line of sight aircraft, which is clearly stated in the documentation. It provides pretty darn good video, handles wind better than any other consumer drone on the market, is fast when you want it to be, has what I consider to be one of the best, if not THE best, gimbal on the consumer drone market, and is quite maneuverable. If you lose a motor it does not fall out of the sky. As one that has experienced two motor failures since I started flying multirotors, both of which were on aircraft having 6 or more motors, I can tell you it's quite reassuring to know you'll be able to fly back if you lose a prop, motor, or ESC. The H is easy to operate if you have a little bit of experience but it can be a handful (meaning user over load) for someone that bought an H to be their first drone or for someone that is used to flying fully automated aircraft. For people that have to rely on auto take off and auto land they'll need to spend a few minutes leaning to do something the haven't done before, actually fly. It IS NOT a tap the screen to take off, fly, and land aircraft, it's a pilot's aircraft. If you are not blind, tactility deficient, and uncoordinated you can learn the H. Those willing to spend an hour or so learning about the aircraft and systems before putting one in the air have few problems. Are they 100% perfect 100% of the time? Nope, and neither is anything else, but at least Yuneec is there for the customer when things are not as they should be. You can even call Yuneec on Saturdays.
The brand new user group is where I estimate 95% of the problem reports originate, but many so called problem reports are simply lies that DJI shills make up and post in locations where the maximum number of people will see them. Brand new fliers have no experience or understanding, don't bother to read documentation included with the H, don't bother to watch any of the You Tube videos that well describe how to make use of different functions, blindly try to install firmware upgrades, missing critical steps that brick their systems, and try to land like a baseball player sliding into home plate, breaking the landing gear. They also fail to assure the battery is fully seated in the aircraft before they take off, they disrupt the accelerometer start up self checks by moving the H around while it's booting up, don't wait for satellite acquisition, if they even bother to look at the satellite counts before arming the motors. Some are so foolish they try to trigger RTH as soon as the system reports a GPS failure. That almost defines stupid. They try to fly the batteries so long they no longer have enough voltage to power the system and complain about flight time when they spent the last 8-10 minutes pretending to be Mario Andretti. In a word, they are blatantly ignorant. Quite often they are inept as well. I can point to 10+ posts in less than 5 minutes that illustrate what I'm describing. Take a moment and consider all the possible ways an operator can force their aircraft to screw up. There are a great many and most that screw the pooch make it a point to leave out a lot of what they were doing and how they did it before things went wrong. Most all of them blame the aircraft when the truth, which they don't want to face, would put the blame squarely on them. It's pretty easy to recognize the lies that are created by leaving out items critical to the reason for a crash.
So while all the above is taking place they break their aircraft or brick their ST-16. Guess what? Yuneec, being the wonderful company they are, generally takes care of the problem under warranty at no cost aside from shipping to the customer. You call them up, send them a copy of the telemetry files, and they get back to you one way or another. Don't try that with DJI, they don't provide anywhere near the level of customer service Yuneec does, and Yuneec has been providing that level of customer service for a very long time.
So, DJI either pays, encourages, or leverages a great many people to promote DJI in every way possible, up to and including berating, demeaning, and attacking other competitive products. Yuneec does not have or use such methods. Their sales are based more upon customer satisfaction and word of mouth. Your first post in the original thread checked off just about every box that would qualify you as another of those DJI people. Glad you came back and clarified. So, if you want something that works like a DJI system, the H is not for you. However, if you want an aircraft that will let you fly it pretty any way you want to fly it, and anywhere you want to fly it without needing to get company permissions, the H might be something you'll like. Unlike DJI, who seems to think they still own the aircraft after you paid for it, Yuneec provides a means for owners to obtain an NFZ waiver. For amateurs there are still some limits close to the center of an active NFZ, which has proven to be a good thing. For those with a commercial waiver there are zero limitations. Zero, nada, none, zilch.
