After having done the firmware update on this new H I've had sitting here in it's box, using an old Dell computer that hasn't been turned on in two years (running Windows 7) here is how the test went.
#1. Did a 12 foot hover for two minutes. All was well and then landed.
#2. Did a 20 foot hover for two minutes and attempted to raise the landing gear. They wouldn't budge so I landed and started looking in my manual under FAQs and Troubleshooting. God, Yuneec needs help in writing manuals. This one for the H is better than the one I read a couple of years ago when I bought my first Yuneec Q500 4K, but it still needs improvement as well as their compass calibration sheet. (And I need new knees, trying to see those little flashing lights on the bottom of the H and the Q500.) The on-off button on the H is a vast improvement over the Q500.My feelings are that Yuneec gets a gold star for engineering and design, but they need some help in writing manuals.
#3. Did a third 20 foot hover and "messed" with the gear-up switch again. I saw the slightest hint the left gear leg "quivered" and so I started flipping the switch back and forth, then observed the right gear leg doing a "quiver" (this is starting to read like a cheap paperback love story now, using quiver...) Finally after doing the herky-jerky with the switch, the gear raised all the way up, so I went full throttle to check on my goats. The H is much faster than the Q500.
I'm probably going to inject a very small amount of silicon spray lubricant into the area where I suspect the gear legs are tight and resume "goat inspections" tomorrow. Neither my goats nor my burro Pablo (who guards them) cares that I fly drones over the ranch. I suspect they simply think they are very noisy buzzards and ignore my drones. I just hope my goats don't send an email to the local FSDO to report an old rancher is flying drones over them. (FSDO = Flight Standards District Office, and in my case, the FAA guys are in Lubbock - a 400 mile round trip in a car. I suspect they would ignore the email from my head goat, Billy.)
#1. Did a 12 foot hover for two minutes. All was well and then landed.
#2. Did a 20 foot hover for two minutes and attempted to raise the landing gear. They wouldn't budge so I landed and started looking in my manual under FAQs and Troubleshooting. God, Yuneec needs help in writing manuals. This one for the H is better than the one I read a couple of years ago when I bought my first Yuneec Q500 4K, but it still needs improvement as well as their compass calibration sheet. (And I need new knees, trying to see those little flashing lights on the bottom of the H and the Q500.) The on-off button on the H is a vast improvement over the Q500.My feelings are that Yuneec gets a gold star for engineering and design, but they need some help in writing manuals.
#3. Did a third 20 foot hover and "messed" with the gear-up switch again. I saw the slightest hint the left gear leg "quivered" and so I started flipping the switch back and forth, then observed the right gear leg doing a "quiver" (this is starting to read like a cheap paperback love story now, using quiver...) Finally after doing the herky-jerky with the switch, the gear raised all the way up, so I went full throttle to check on my goats. The H is much faster than the Q500.
I'm probably going to inject a very small amount of silicon spray lubricant into the area where I suspect the gear legs are tight and resume "goat inspections" tomorrow. Neither my goats nor my burro Pablo (who guards them) cares that I fly drones over the ranch. I suspect they simply think they are very noisy buzzards and ignore my drones. I just hope my goats don't send an email to the local FSDO to report an old rancher is flying drones over them. (FSDO = Flight Standards District Office, and in my case, the FAA guys are in Lubbock - a 400 mile round trip in a car. I suspect they would ignore the email from my head goat, Billy.)
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