Thanks to the powers-that-be for an excellent resource for this wonderful new RC hexacopter with attached remote-controlled camera! (I despise the barstardization of the word "drone" that the media has used ad-nauseum over the past decade or so; to me a drone is a remotely piloted target vehicle, or a sexless worker bee).
Me? Been flying both fixed and rotary winged RC since around 1998ish with a few breaks for mundane things like raising children, divorces, marriages, etc... But I digress...
Got a Typhoon H this past weekend to augment my small division of much-harder-to-fly whirlygigs and balsa bombers. It's very relaxing to be able to take my thumbs away from the stick to swat gnats orbiting my bald cranium, and to almost even be able to see those gnats from the halfway-decent camera attached to the bottom of the RCHWARCC. Not like the T-REX 500 - balancing a pen on the tip of a spindle via remote control... constant movement a must.
Still, it is taking some practice, but all is working fine. The only thing I've had to deal with so far is a flaky heat-sensitive blue element in the status LED on the back of the H... that caused some confusion until I figured out what it was doing. Yuneec seems to have built a GREAT little system with this hexi, and I'm glad to have one. Haven't had this much fun since I CA'd a small NTSC color web camera into the bottom of a trainer aircraft with a 2.4GHz "Rabbit" video transmitter with a receiver hooked to a VHS VCR on a portable TV in the late 90s!
So, for the suggestion, and perhaps help from someone who may have figured out a way to do so, it would be REAL nice if Yuneec would utilize the AUX pushbutton as a "STOP EVERY AUTOMATIC FLIGHT MODE THAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING AND HOVER IN PLACE IMMEDIATELY!" mode. I went to try the orbit me mode today for the first time as a test of it's autonomous capabilities and had to fumble for the "EXIT" button on the remote screen to keep from running into a tree! Yeah, I know, silly me - why was I operating so close to a tree to begin with? Well, I wasn't THAT close to start with, but evidently found the "increase the radius" control while trying to figure out how to perform the orbit. Thankfully I reacted quick enough (about 30' from the tree) to stop it. Which leads me to my one and only complaint I've found so far... the TFT matrix on the doggone ST16 is aligned just plain WRONG for anyone who wears polarized glasses while flying; we have to hold the ST16 rotated counterclockwise 45 degrees to read the doggone screen!
Anyway, thanks again, and Yuneec, if you're listening, it should be the "Oh, SHEET!" function. Press it and immediately stop dead in it's tracks, no matter what it's doing (within reason, of course).
Me? Been flying both fixed and rotary winged RC since around 1998ish with a few breaks for mundane things like raising children, divorces, marriages, etc... But I digress...
Got a Typhoon H this past weekend to augment my small division of much-harder-to-fly whirlygigs and balsa bombers. It's very relaxing to be able to take my thumbs away from the stick to swat gnats orbiting my bald cranium, and to almost even be able to see those gnats from the halfway-decent camera attached to the bottom of the RCHWARCC. Not like the T-REX 500 - balancing a pen on the tip of a spindle via remote control... constant movement a must.
Still, it is taking some practice, but all is working fine. The only thing I've had to deal with so far is a flaky heat-sensitive blue element in the status LED on the back of the H... that caused some confusion until I figured out what it was doing. Yuneec seems to have built a GREAT little system with this hexi, and I'm glad to have one. Haven't had this much fun since I CA'd a small NTSC color web camera into the bottom of a trainer aircraft with a 2.4GHz "Rabbit" video transmitter with a receiver hooked to a VHS VCR on a portable TV in the late 90s!
So, for the suggestion, and perhaps help from someone who may have figured out a way to do so, it would be REAL nice if Yuneec would utilize the AUX pushbutton as a "STOP EVERY AUTOMATIC FLIGHT MODE THAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING AND HOVER IN PLACE IMMEDIATELY!" mode. I went to try the orbit me mode today for the first time as a test of it's autonomous capabilities and had to fumble for the "EXIT" button on the remote screen to keep from running into a tree! Yeah, I know, silly me - why was I operating so close to a tree to begin with? Well, I wasn't THAT close to start with, but evidently found the "increase the radius" control while trying to figure out how to perform the orbit. Thankfully I reacted quick enough (about 30' from the tree) to stop it. Which leads me to my one and only complaint I've found so far... the TFT matrix on the doggone ST16 is aligned just plain WRONG for anyone who wears polarized glasses while flying; we have to hold the ST16 rotated counterclockwise 45 degrees to read the doggone screen!
Anyway, thanks again, and Yuneec, if you're listening, it should be the "Oh, SHEET!" function. Press it and immediately stop dead in it's tracks, no matter what it's doing (within reason, of course).