Recent content by catware

You are quoting a post I wrote on 4 December, 2014, based on pre-released specifications given by DJI, before the Inspire 1 was released to the public.

A picture might help. Here is a screenshot of the Incident 2's flight playback (what a fantastic feature by the way). You can see that there is no stick input, and it is flying at 24.6mph in a large circle. The playback shows that the aircraft was pointed backward, but actually it wasn't -- it...

Thanks @JimPA , I'll read through that thread. There's so much traffic on this forum these days it's hard to catch important thread like that :-)

@Shazbot4 : I am actually an engineer, and I have posted my flight resume earlier in this forum, which is extensive. I also reiterated in the post directly above yours that I have over 200 flights on the Phantom 2. As I wrote above, Incident 1 was covered by DJI under their warranty, i.e. they...

Incident 3: 19 May I re-calibrated the compass, and made another flight in which all went well. Then I made another flight (the 3rd of the day), just flying around in the field in front of my house. Again (as in Incident 2) the control went haywire -- the aircraft would actively attempt to fly...

I will add that I also have the Phantom 2 with Lightbridge installed, and with over 200 flights on it in extremely challenging mountainous terrain I have never had a single issue with it not performing perfectly.

My first crash occurred 5 days after purchasing the Inspire 1, and the repair was covered by DJI under warranty due to a firmware bug. It took 8 weeks to get repaired and returned by DJI. Then today, just two days after receiving it back, it crashed again for a different reason. Incident 1: 15...

The ad says 2 T47 (sic) batteries but there is a TB48 installed in the photos. Is that battery not included?

You'll blow it up if you do that. The power needs to be trickle fed into the battery. Do NOT connect it straight to an unmetered 24v supply.

At 1:45 you can see the shadow of an Inspire 1 :-) https://www.facebook.com/visitarg/videos/10152725813146820/

The serial number should be registered to the rightful owner. We all have to register the aircraft prior to starting up the app. Did you contact DJI? It would be the right thing to do.

I wanted to believe I'd be one of the people with no problems; after all I had around 200 flights on my Phantom 2 and had zero issues with it when I bought the Inspire 1. However on the 5th day of ownership of the I1, it flew by itself at full speed into cliffs 100' below my takeoff point...

You should have immediately flipped to ATTI mode when you regained control. It flies much faster and doesn't waste battery trying to follow an exactly straight line. I am glad for you that it was undamaged after landing. I am surprised by the flight track at the turn around point. It appears to...