Micropilot's price competes with uNav???

[danstrider]

This isn't a total solicitation b/c I don't work for MP and have had my own mixed reviews of the 2028 in the past, but I just looked on their website and they now have a whole host of new autopilot offerings! For the price of the 1028, I'd start to consider it for modeller applications. My impression was that it would be closer to the $4k range, but $1750 isn't too bad. From the comments around here of people just wanting to fly waypoint circuits and to have some "safety" when flying their aircraft outside visual range, their 2028 wouldn't be too bad of a fit. I still wonder about access to the software to run the thing ... but most people don't really want that do they?

http://micropilot.com/autopilots.htm

Anyone hear or see the heli version in action? I'd really like to get some first-hand experience stories...

Dan

PS: Sorry if someone sees this as an ad. I was just struck at the price!

[kd7ost]

I don't have any experience with the micropilot units but it doesn't sound like an ad at all.

Dan

[flyingwingfan]

1700 bucks. Canadian or usd? Ok, I might bite, but did you notice that is priced for a minimum order of 100?

[Magician]

Yeah, I noticed that little footnote, the $1700 is for quantity 100.
Seems like a bit of marketing games. Who posts quantity pricing for a small autopilot?

[danstrider]

Holy cow, I missed the minimum order of 100 ... that is sketchy

And the 100 note is on ALL of them; what is that about? So what does just one unit cost? That's almost worse than advertising a price at all, advertising a price that 99% of the population isn't going to pay. Car salesmen start to come to mind ....

Sorry on the bum initial post. I was pretty well fooled.

[LukeZ]

Holy cow, I missed the minimum order of 100 ... that is sketchy

Sorry on the bum initial post. I was pretty well fooled.Yeah, I was just on their site the other day and noticed their prices, and thought boy! things sure have gotten cheaper. I didn't notice the quantity of 100 either, not until I just read this thread.


Luke

[treehog]

$1700 canadian sterling usa whatever is way to much for most joes never mind $5000


Its all a question of what the costomers will pay and $100 is much closer to what the avarage joe wants to pay

When the fist calculators came out they cost like a whack but some years later they come free in cornflacke boxes


same for UAV the price will drop and drop and then it will be a standard item like HAL for a $100


in the mean time the average enthusasist will logically say if the $1700 can save my $6000 turbine jet its mayby worth the price

A hotliner for $600 might reach for $170 solution to save his hotliner and $1700 is just not in the frame

So the trick is if you live long eneogh and eat lots of corn flackes you too can have a freebee UAV but then you might be old blind and in a nursing home :D



Ralf

[danstrider]

I was thinking about prices...

If you have a $1700 SBXC for going cross country and you have a $800 vario system on top of $500 of servos and a receiver, then a $1700 insurance policy doesn't sound so bad.

The first time the voltage readout on my vario saved my plane, it paid for itself. Maybe $1700 isn't for the average joe, but for the sake of playing numbers, $1700 isn't out of the question.

And who wants a UAV in five years instead of now? It's always expensive getting in on the ground floor of blossoming technology :-)

Dan

[LukeZ]

Of course, it doesn't sound like $1,700 is the actual price...


Luke

[danstrider]

Indeed Luke, you have a point there :-)

[icebear]

But it's not that far off! About 2000 in small qty's I believe...

/Icebear