My first drone Yuneec Hexacopter

The first thing that sets the Typhoon H apart: it’s a hexacopter, with six rotors instead of the four found on the popular quadcopter design. What’s more, the Yuneec Hexacopter Typhoon H only needs five of those rotors to stay in the air, so if one motor konks out mid-flight, you don’t crash or splash. The H also features retractable rotor arms, which cuts down on the size of the transport case and makes it roughly the same size as a typical quadcopter when stowed.

Most hexacopters typically lack an integrated camera flight system, the feature on a consumer drone that lets the pilot use the same camera to both navigate and to capture aerial footage. Instead, these filmmakers’ drones have a gimbal where a separate pro movie camera is attached to capture footage. This also means you need two operators—one to fly and one to film.

The Yuneec Hexacopter Typhoon H is much more consumer-friendly. It bundles a very nice 4K video camera (shooting 30fps or 60fps in 1080p, and featuring 12-megapixel stills) and flies just fine with only one person at the controls. It can also be paired with a second controller though, which opens up the possibility of separate pilot and camera, something not easily done with any other similarly-priced drone on the market.

There are other impressive features, too. The camera is mounted on a 3-axis gimbal, which allows for 360 degree pans. It has retractable landing gear, sonar-based object avoidance and, like the Phantom 4, plenty of autonomous flight modes. The result is a very impressive, rock-solid aerial photography platform.

The Yuneec Hexacopter Typhoon H is the first hexacopter I’ve flown, so I can’t compare it to the professional models out there, but I can say its significantly more stable and much, much faster than the older four-rotor Typhoon Q500 4K. It was capable of holding steady in similarly windy test conditions.

By far the most unique is Team mode. This mode allows the Yuneec Hexacopter Typhoon H to “bind” to an additional (included, for a limited time) smaller remote called a Wizard. The person holding the Wizard controls the drone’s flight, while the person holding the main controller is free to just operate the camera. The Typhoon H can be instructed to just follow the Wizard. If the person with the Wizard is windsurfing, scrambling up a mountain ridge, or riding a motorcycle across a salt flat, this makes for some pretty dramatic footage opportunities.

Though there are some downsides to the Typhoon H,I still like the six Blades.

 

 

 

 

 

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