Hoverfly QAV500 Frame with Hoverfly Pro and GPS board

[mikegrundvig]

Hi all; I built my Y6 with the big Avroto motors and used Rusty's frame intending it to be my last multirotor copter build. Sadly, I'm just not that happy with it. It flies great, but the flight time is poor without huge batteries because it weighs so much and with the camera and gimbal system along with it's heavy weight, I always feel like I have to be too careful with it when flying so it's just not "fun". It stresses me out too much as I'm always focused on keeping it safe and not on flying itself. The copter this replaced was an aluminum frame job with cheap motors and parts I'd designed and milled and it was just plain more fun to fly for me. I crashed it a few times, but never too bad, while I was learning and it lasted me several years before a motor failure gave it some serious damage and I decided to upgrade. Now I wish I'd just rebuilt it and saved some money

So to that end, I'm going to be parting out my current Y6 system (selling the camera gimbal and some of the motors, props, etc) and going for a new system designed exclusively for FPV flying and just "bashing around". Both smaller and lighter while still using better quality components. I'm interested in the QAV500, you can see details here:
http://www.fpvmanuals.com/2012/05/01/qav500/

My question is this: anyone have any experience with that frame or seen it in person? Will it fit the Hoverfly Pro and the GPS board without doing crazy gyrations? Thanks!

-Mike

 

[Aerovideo]

Hello Mike,

I've got a QAV500 but only had a sport board on it. It doesn't have predrilled holes for the pro board as the pro board is HUGE. I guess you could probably get it and the GPS to fit but there wouldn't be much protection on it.

I had some nice FPV flights with my QAV but no matter what I did, it always was heavy and I had a hard time getting it to fly smoothly (Sport boards aren't as smooth as the Pro boards, yet )

The cool thing about the QAV is the ability to put 2 GoPros on there so you have a front facing and downward facing camera, fun stuff!

Built a homemade/design quad similar to the qav but out of wood and it's probably one of the best quads I've ever had, and I've got a closet full of frames! hehe

With that said, the QAV is very cool looking and top notch quality, I would recommend it but can't say that I've had a pro board on it, sorry.