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flhtci2006

flhtci2006

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Merry Christmas to all and to all a good flight.
Just bought my first drone/quadcopter and am waiting for it to arrive. I have past experience flying RC helicopters and airplanes. Decided the drone would be easier to travel with. Anyway, after lots of searching and reviewing and wanting to stay around $200 (because that was the limit my wife gave me), I went with the Hubsan H501S Advanced/professional. I've read good and bad but then I had the same experience with every drone I researched. My most important detail was distance. I'm hoping this one will work out for me.
Best to all.
 
Welcome to the forum! Good choice for a first quadcopter, feel free to ask questions if you have any issues getting it in the air.
 
I've seen reviews and youtube stuff, and kinda have an idea of some things to look at before flight to verify proper manufacturing. I know about lipo's and charging. In fact, I'll use my charger and balancer from my electric helicopter. I've seen various reports of the antenna wire not making proper contact so I'll look at that. I understand the compass cal. and binding. But, having not flown a drone or used FPV, I'm always open to suggestions. I'm interested in goggles but wonder about my vision. I have glasses to see better at distance (although my eyesight isn't real bad...maybe 20/40) but also use bifocals because I'm over 40. Maybe someday I'll find someone with goggles that will let me try them.
 
flhtci2006 said:
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good flight.
Just bought my first drone/quadcopter and am waiting for it to arrive. I have past experience flying RC helicopters and airplanes. Decided the drone would be easier to travel with. Anyway, after lots of searching and reviewing and wanting to stay around $200 (because that was the limit my wife gave me), I went with the Hubsan H501S Advanced/professional. I've read good and bad but then I had the same experience with every drone I researched. My most important detail was distance. I'm hoping this one will work out for me.
Best to all.
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Congratulations and welcome. If you flew RC Helicopters than your flying skills are a couple of levels above us mere mortals
I recently bought a Hubsan 501s-s. With the upgraded controller. First thing I noticed is that Hubsans naming/numbering system is all over the place. Very confusing along with documentation. My flights have been good so far and the camera is good. I also found out that supposedly this model has "automatic" compass calibration. Hmmmm?

Good luck and have fun!
 
ArmyVet said:
Best part is smoke and noise!
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My brother In law has one, he too scared to fly it as it cost him £200 to fix on his maiden.
He went for the big one first instead of a little trainer. He can fly one of them now but the big one about 1200mm long & he just can't bring himself to fly it, or me :(
 
mozquito1 said:
My brother In law has one, he too scared to fly it as it cost him £200 to fix on his maiden.
He went for the big one first instead of a little trainer. He can fly one of them now but the big one about 1200mm long & he just can't bring himself to fly it, or me :(
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My brother bought one many moons ago. With no RC experience. After I scared him about the difficulty he sold it........haha
 
I used to fly primarily 60 size heli's, nitro. Also had several 30 size. Repair costs are quite high. Ican buy 4 drones for the cost of a simple heli crash. Inow have an Align Trex 500. But, quit flying sometime ago. I live at 6900ft elevation and if you have to auto, you better not miss a beat. I got my H501S today. Had some surprises. First, although Ihaven't received it yet, I ordered the lipo TX battery instead of using 8 AA's. Opened up the TX and found no battery tray for the AA's but a Lipo instead. I'll be returning a lipo once it arrives. I have a lipo charger and balancer but it won't work for the drones and TX lipo's. Gonna have to find an adapter or just get a dual charger/balancer. Mo money. I've seen a youtube video of a twisted body that caused the guy flying issues.
I found kind of the same issue on mine with the same motor pods. Except, the difference is when the drone is on a flat surface I can just slide a piece of paper under theone rubber foot and the one opposite of it (Lt front/Rt rear) . If Iput a square up to the rotor tips, a couple are right on and the other 2 are easily within 1/32nd inch. Kind of a meaningless measurement but.... Before I screw with it, I'll see how it flys. No reason to fix what might not be broke. I will pull the Tx apart and check the antenna wire. It seems that has been an issue with several people. I'll just do a slight pull and continuity check.
Anyways, thanks for all your responses. I will post some heli pics once I figure the posting out. Best wishes to all. Hope you all have a good new year.(FYI: if you find words typed without spaces between them, I have a screwed up spacebar,)
 
An update on my H501SS. I didn't get the AA battery tray for the Tx. Instead got a lipo. Kinda would have liked tohave the tray as a backup. Also,got some small round thing called a filter for stable image under high light. Where the hell does this go? The manual sux. Has more about the old Tx than the H906A. I messed around some with the body and motor screws and now all 4 feet rest equally on a flat surface. Looked inside the Tx and found white oxidation (?) on the pcb. Was gonna check the antenna for continuity but theends of both antenna leads are potted where they connect to the pcb.
 
Welcome to the wonderful world of Chinese QC lol. The filter you are talking about should just snap onto the camera lens. It'll stop your fpv image from going very dark when facing into the sun. You can play with it, but you'll find it's probably not necessary
 
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