Very good read for review of Q500 with Controller lag, not a bad one either.

typhoontrisroy · Aug 20, 2017

I just bought a Yuneec Q500 and I had it on night mode last night when I bought it flying it for the first time. I could actually make out street lights on the controller, but I didn't have an SD card to shoot any photos in yet, being that I didn't read it didn't come with one. I flew it in a huge field today that had houses surrounding it but were far enough away to legally fly it. I was actually before doing this thinking about returning it because the lag last night from the picture on the controller was lagging I couldn't fly.

I am so very glad I went and got an SD card and flew today in the best conditions ever to fly. I am amazed by the quality of change, I can get used to the delay. The delay doesn't prevent you from FPV flying this drone all over. It just makes it where you have to adjust your decisions slower. I also came back and saw the quality of video and pictures I took and how smooth they were and it was amazing. I will NOT be returning this product because I ended up getting it for 820 and for this quality that is amazing compared to spending 1500. Anybody with the new model Typhoon and the quality differences of the two? I would definitely like to hear about that also.

AH-1G · Aug 20, 2017

What time at night?

Steve Carr · Aug 20, 2017

typhoontrisroy said:
I just bought a Yuneec Q500 and I had it on night mode last night when I bought it flying it for the first time. I could actually make out street lights on the controller, but I didn't have an SD card to shoot any photos in yet, being that I didn't read it didn't come with one. I flew it in a huge field today that had houses surrounding it but were far enough away to legally fly it. I was actually before doing this thinking about returning it because the lag last night from the picture on the controller was lagging I couldn't fly.
I am so very glad I went and got an SD card and flew today in the best conditions ever to fly. I am amazed by the quality of change, I can get used to the delay. The delay doesn't prevent you from FPV flying this drone all over. It just makes it where you have to adjust your decisions slower. I also came back and saw the quality of video and pictures I took and how smooth they were and it was amazing. I will NOT be returning this product because I ended up getting it for 820 and for this quality that is amazing compared to spending 1500. Anybody with the new model Typhoon and the quality differences of the two? I would definitely like to hear about that also.

Hmmm......is that $820 US? That sounds like a high price depending on what was included with it.

I never got very good results using night mode. I found gorgeous actually worked better. And the Typhoon H is a definite improvement over the CGO3. But the Q500 is still one of the most reliable and stable quadcopters ever built.