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OK, here's the reality of the these quads, IMHO. I have a Q500+ now, but would like to get the P3 soon.
Brian, after flying the Q500+ for 3mos, here's my opinion on your comments. I recently saw two P3's flying and talked extensively with the owners and their experience.
- Larger than Phantom
Yes, the Q500+ is larger, and it's a problem if you want to back pack into the wilderness. I'd prefer something smaller that fits easily into a reasonably sized backpack.
- stable indoor flight (more than P2)
Maybe, but the P3 has the indoor sensors specifically designed for indoors flying, and the P3 is smaller, better for indoors. I'd never fly my Q indoors, it's too big.
- more aggressive flight angles (more than P2)
Not true if you fly GPS enabled. The Q500+ only goes about 15mph, the P3 goes over 30mph with GPS enabled.
- wonderful controller
The ST10+ controller is good, and it has a built in monitor, granted. However the video wifi technology loses video connection at about 1000ft. P3 will go a mile! When the Q500 loses the link, it takes forever to reconnect, the P3 never loses a full video link, it typically drops a portion of the video (horizontal lines), indicating you're on the edge of connection integrity. You never lose 100% video connection like the Q500+ does all of a sudden when you get to the edge of the video range (1000'). The ST10+ controller video screen will all of a sudden FREEZE, until you reconnect by returning home close enough to reconnect, a real hassle.
One cool feature of the P3 is you can immediately play back the video in your Android/iPhone monitoring device. This immediate playback is lower resolution than the 1080 or 4K video you can retrieve, but it allows a quick review of the shot, confirming you got the shot you were planning for. The ST10+ with Q500+ doesn't support that at all. You have to remove the SD card from the camera after it lands, put the SD card in a computer, retrieved the video, then you can play it back, and hopefully you got the shot! The immediate review in 720 resolution is an awesome feature.
- follow me feature
Yes, it does follow the ST10+ controller, however it will only do about 15mph. It's not fast enough for many things you might want to do, like motorcycles, dunebuggies, skiing, cars, boats, etc. It also supports WATCH ME, which keeps the camera pointed at the controller. Works well. The Q500+ DOES NOT support waypoints at all, and Yuneec has stated it never will.
As for 3DR, I'm hoping this craft is a home run. However, early reports indicate it uses WiFi technology for the video downlink. This will be a deal breaker for me. All that handshaking with TCPIP in WiFi slows down the video, the latency is too high and reliability of signal is dismal if it's standard WiFi technology. That's exactly why DJI put LightBridge in the P3, to get away from the handshaking hassle. The video latency in Lightbridge video link is really impressive, about 150ms.
I really want a P3 for my next quad, however the poor customer support everyone talks about is a deterrent. That seems like such an easy thing to fix compared to designing these products. I would assume this stems from poor management of their US operation, specifically their top guy in the US. He's to blame IMHO, poor leadership. That's really too bad, I really want a P3.
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