500 Flights in 198 Days
I keep a log of every flight that I make with my quadcopters, so I knew that on February 2, 2017, I had made my 500th flight. I made my first flight with my first micro quadcopter, the Hubsan X4 H107L, on July 20, 2016. Thus, it took me 198 days to achieve 500 flights; an average of 2.53 flights a day. Of course, a lot of days, I didn't have a chance to fly any of my fleet, but, on the other hand, my one day record was 11 flights. As a retired engineer, I enjoy keeping records and analyzing data. I have put together the following table showing all of my drones, the number of flights for each, how many days since I purchased each one and the average number of days between flights for each drone.
Drone No. of Flights Days since purchase Days between flights
Spidex 88 184 2.1
Hubsan 64 198 3.1
Verso 52 196 3.8
Syma X13 44 168 3.8
UDI-U27 40 168 4.2
Spyder X 36 158 4.4
Blade Nano 30 191 6.4
Kodo 23 181 7.9
Sharper Image DX2 24 135 5.6
Proto Z 22 170 7.7
Quadrone 22 143 6.5
Sky Rover 13 63 4.8
Sky Thunder 12 63 5.3
Swift Stream 9 44 4.9
UDI U-841-1 6 12 2.0
Zoopa Riot 6 13 2.2
Quadrone Spark 5 12 2.4
Quadrone Sparrow 4 12 3.0
The last four quadcopters have not been discussed in their own post, yet, since I am waiting to get more flights with each one to have a better understanding of their capabilities. In the chart above, the "Days between flights" column gives a fairly accurate indication of which drones are my favorites.
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