Recent content by Donnie Frank

Never to be heard from again..... D

This sounds like dirty contacts to me. Clean all the lens/body contacts meticulously. Let me know if this helps. D

Touché. Point taken. Geeze...leave it to DJI to reinvent the wheel...<:^/ D

None of these, eh? D

My objective is to learn about the problem and possibly provide a solution...not to doubt your veracity. So probing questions are necessary. That said... I worked in RFID many years ago, so, with all due respect, there's almost no such thing as a "proprietary antenna." If I had the the RC...

Copy that. Interesting. I understand the definition. I was asking about the threshold. I would call 100 broken antennas systemic....not 5 or even 10. No sir. So...to understand the problem better... They are breaking because they are fragile? It's not an inherent design flaw like...

Well if the antenna is replaceable, why not just replace it? How expensive could they be? I mean, how often could you possibly break those antennas? Once or twice in your life?? What do you mean by "systematic problem?" I don't think I've ever broken one in well over 10 years of quadcopter...

The antenna looks replaceable to me. Is that not the case? D

Go here: https://dl.djicdn.com/downloads/inspire_1/WM610_FW_V01.08.01.00.zip D

It's too bad you don't have a second Inspire 1. The best way to isolate issues is to trade out components. It might be worth searching for another Inspire 1 in your area. D

Just curious what all of your firmwares are; Bird, batteries, cameras. D

Yeah...don't do that. You WILL regret it. Coming to the forum for firmware advice was the right thing to do. D

Rule #1: Never update anything (software or firmware) unless something is broken or not functioning. Rule #2: If something is broken and you have to update, never update the night before a shoot. That's just good advice right there. D

I would try reseating the ribbon cables. Ribbon cables are a fairly common problem. I imagine a crash could easily jar one or more of them loose. D

All of our jobs were out on location (read: out in the middle of nowhere), so we always had backups. The one crash we had was because the DP kept pushing our pilot to get closer and closer to the vehicle we were chasing. The problem was that there were high tension power wires that the pilot...