First Flight.

[Malcolm davies]

Hi All,
Well got my first flight under my belt on Thursday and I must say how steady the Q500+ fly's, was really pleased with it. But do have one question as I powered the motors up and let then kick in I looked at my battery level it was showing 11.5volt,but when I took off and started flying away from me noticed it drop very quickly to 9 volt, but as I brought it back towards me it went back up to 10.5volt is this normal.
But other than that got some great video footage of an old castle by me..

 

[NRRTRAINS]

it all according to how much power ( voltage ) is being used to hold position and when you fly into the wind some times you can see your Q dip and hear the blades change pitch ( fighting to maintain the GPS concordance you set by moving to a new area in flight ) if your Q can hover in one position hold steady with no real drain on the battery it's ok . just remember every thing you do when flying will draw voltage ( camera , LED lights and flying around ) and when you let off the stick's the draw is less and the battery will recover some voltage . if you get close to 20 minutes on your battery everything is OK.
i hope I've explained this so you can understand what is going on .
fly safe , have fun

 

[Malcolm davies]

it all according to how much power ( voltage ) is being used to hold position and when you fly into the wind some times you can see your Q dip and hear the blades change pitch ( fighting to maintain the GPS concordance you set by moving to a new area in flight ) if your Q can hover in one position hold steady with no real drain on the battery it's ok . just remember every thing you do when flying will draw voltage ( camera , LED lights and flying around ) and when you let off the stick's the draw is less and the battery will recover some voltage . if you get close to 20 minutes on your battery everything is OK.
i hope I've explained this so you can understand what is going on .
fly safe , have fun

Hi thanks for that feed back, I do understand every movement of the controls, LED lights and camera draw voltage, just couldn't understand when close it was showing higher voltage than when it was further away