How do you use Hover Camera Passport drone?

Don’t need too much operation. Hover Camera Passport drone provides a more simple way to take aerial photos and videos. You don’t have to take your phone out of your pocket to take a pictures and videos. After all, who needs another person to capture your favorite moments when you can do it on your own with Hover Camera? Let’s keep checking.

What can it do?

The Hover Camera Passport drone sports a 13MP snapper that can shoot videos in 4K resolution. Of course, it comes with pretty cool features as well. It can lock onto an object and orbit around it or follow it around. The Hover Camera uses its front camera to lock onto a person (using face detection technology), and has a feature called ‘Orbit’ to film yourself autonomously as the drone circles around you, while a “360 Spin” feature allows you to shoot panoramic 360-degree videos,  and can hover steadily at any position in the mid-air to a maximum altitude of a whopping 164 feet from the ground.

The Software

The Hover Camera Passport drone is powered by a ton of sophisticated Artificial Intelligence Software Technologies containing various flight control algorithms embedded to the hardware of the hover camera. It is equipped with a software technology called Electronic Image Stabilization. This technology is basically used to capture rock steady images.

The Dimensions

The Hover Camera Passport drone is an easy-to-control and pretty fun camera drone that measures 182 x 132 x 32.5mm (folded) and weighs 238g. The drone shows off a simple and sleek appearance, and its foldable design and lightweight profile allow you to easily take the drone anywhere you go.

Cameras for Indoor Video-shooting

The Hover Camera Passport drone is equipped with an LED flash for low light and indoor imaging, and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Quad core processor. This processor is very often used in flagship grade smartphones. It also includes a lithium powered battery that is interchangeable.

Wait! Did you think it has got only one camera? It also includes a secondary camera and a mic that are paired together and integrated with the software to work as a sonar. This is the secret behind the unmatched airborne stability of the hover camera.

The hover camera does not contain a GPS tracker within it. All the tracking is accomplished by using Phase detection and complex Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Embedded on to the drone. This device opens a whole new dimension when it comes to taking Selfies, and videos. You don’t need to bother about holding a device, thus going completely hands-free.

Drawbacks

The worst problem is the battery life which is fairly shot. Expect about 10 minutes of air time from Hover Camera Passport drone. Though with a charge time of about 40 minutes, it won’t be long until you’re back in the air again.

How do you Use it?

Using this piece of beauty is even easier then flying a paper plane. All you have to do is hold up the powered-on unit with its wings open, tap the power button to rev up the propellers for about one second, and then release the unit to let it hover.Similarly, you can retrieve the hovering Passport with your hand without ever having to worry about the blades: Grab it and tap the power button to kill the propellers, or you can first tilt the unit downward to slow the propellers down before tapping the power button. When the battery level is critically low, the drone can slowly land itself using the sonar sensor under its belly; you can also use the One-Touch Landing button to toggle automatic landing at any time.

 

 

 

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Getting a Yuneec Q500 4K GPS lock might take a while

Yuneec Q500 reviews caution on flying without GPS despite issues.

Using GPS to fly a Yuneec Q500 means waiting for a satellite lock and that can take quite a while and also fail, as a strong signal remains elusive in many parts of the world because of the limited satellite coverage available.

For owners of a Yuneec Q500 this frustrating process can drain precious battery time and raise questions mid-flight about the status of a connection. Some Yuneec Q500 pilots might even consider flying without GPS assistance, despite suggestions to the contrary.

DJI vs Yuneec comparisons suggest these issues, common on the Yuneec Q500 4K and almost every type of Yuneec drone, are a rarity in every single RC quadcopter model manufactured by DJI, the market leader. That, at least, is what Jim Fisher says in a review of the Yuneec Q500 in PCMag.

The Yuneec Q500 4K“won’t take off until it achieves a GPS lock,” Fisher says.

“You can manually override this requirement if you want to fly without the aid of GPS, but I don’t recommend it. Indoor flight is certainly possible, but there’s no positioning system like you’ll find with the DJI Phantom 3 Professional … so you’ll have to take great care. Even a minor bump indoors can destroy a propeller.”

While a propeller might seem like minor and easily replaceable part of the Yuneec Q500 4K and any other drone but at US$15 each from Yuneec that can quickly add up if the issues are recurrent. And experience suggests that the issues are frequent with the Yuneec Q500.

And, as Fisher notes, the loss of a satellite lock can happen when the Yuneec Q500 is in mid-air.

“During my first run I had some thick trees between me and the Q500, which caused it to lose signal more quickly than I expected. The Q500 didn’t automatically return to home at that point, and the signal was too weak for the manual Home function to work. I was able to walk closer to the unit and regain control, but it was a scary moment in the air.”

He added the second time out was not a charm.

“The craft lost GPS lock momentarily and started to fly erratically,” he said of a test flight with the Yuneec Q500 4K, adding that the Yuneec drone “does wobble a bit in the air, which is somewhat disconcerting when compared with the absolute stillness of the Phantom 3 Professional.”

And finally, he said that even with the GPS issues he stayed with the system because of concerns on stability if it was disabled.

“I did all of my flying with the GPS enabled. If you’ve got a lot of experience flying remote control aircrafts without GPS assistance, you can disable it. When it’s turned off the Q500 4K can fly fast—nearly 60mph—and it can perform steep banks and turning maneuvers. But it’s also unstable in the air, and drifts down when moving forward. I don’t recommend it unless you’re a pro.”

 

 

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