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Post by jezza on Feb 21, 2015 14:55:30 GMT
Not sure I would fly over water tbh, but I still feel very sorry for the guy. Losing a £2500 QC would make me cry.
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Post by DaveM on Feb 21, 2015 19:13:46 GMT
Never too sure what to believe these days, just too many variables
The guy that lost the craft was a new pilot, the other guy filming was not
There was some very strange control inputs, never seen anything fly away
in that manner.
DJI have picked up on this through RC groups, so hopefully the flight log
on the iPad or Android tablet will show something to confirm the reason.
If it does ever get recovered, the Inspire also has an internal "Black Box" recorder
that should pinpoint the exact cause.
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Post by jezza on Feb 22, 2015 19:11:13 GMT
Yea I read they have data loggers, do they have a location gps in the event of a crash? I'm really not sure what the guy who was filming was thinking taking him out for a range test over water. I read his excuse was it was away from people etc. But surely you can just go fly in the country for that? All quads are prone to some sort of failure at some point be it interference or throwing a prop so I would of thought reducing the risk would be the priority for a new flyer/expensive quad. I wont even fly my racers over water and I'm 'only' running £300 quids worth of bits on it  |
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Post by DaveM on Feb 22, 2015 19:37:03 GMT
It has 2 data loggers, 1 in the craft and another recorded on the tablet being used. The one on the craft is the main one recording everything, the tablet version replays your whole flight overlayed on google earth, this includes, altitude, speed, Homepoint, battery %, where you took photos and lots more. It records every flight, and you can upload to a cloud account if you wish. I guess his last known GPS location, was somewhere over the water It has turned into a bit of a MH370 theory story at the moment This is a short video of what the app records  |
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Post by jezza on Feb 26, 2015 13:03:37 GMT
I'm still not sure I'd fly one of those over the sea lol, I'm far too much of a financial coward to do that Have you got yours yet Dave? |
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Post by DaveM on Feb 26, 2015 14:17:07 GMT
I'm still not sure I'd fly one of those over the sea lol, I'm far too much of a financial coward to do that Have you got yours yet Dave? Yes, I have mine, great craft but still needs work on the current firmware It will be a long while before I trust flying it out over the sea, but if I did I would fit something like a fishing "GetterBack" It will still sink but you have a chance to recover the craft afterwards by the depth activated system. (works up to 100ft depth) so better than nothing  |
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Post by jezza on Feb 26, 2015 18:37:14 GMT
I'm not even going to say what that device looks like |
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Post by DaveM on Mar 2, 2015 15:56:02 GMT
Well it looks like DJI came good, and gave the owner in the original posted video a free replacement Inspire 1. |
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Post by jezza on Mar 5, 2015 11:55:13 GMT
That's cool, I think he probably deserved it after being the first person on record to not only have loss of control but to lose it in the sea after |
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