water damage

  1. LCI or an episode with DJI Service about a "water damaged" battery – and why you should care

    Please see original thread – Legal aspects of DJI service – at the DJI forum. Summary My Inspire 1 RAW fell out of the sky from 174.5m for no obvious reason. I was flying about the 30th flight in a weeks course at a deserted and very dry sandy area in the North-African Sahara when it happened...
  2. Camera Dipped in Water ( X3)

    So It was inevitable, I fly close to water a lot, I'm always around water and the scenes I am commissioned to film include a lot of water. Filming in a beautiful Location on the South Coast of Jamaica. As a film maker that uses a drone ( have been doing for six years) as an amazing additional...
  3. Fresh Water Damaged Inspire

    So it had to happen eventually... If you look at the videos I've posted over the year, a fair number of them were flow over water with no issues. Till last week that is. The AC went down from approximately 2 ft, on the shore of a freshwater pond. I knicked a branch and the AC rolled into...
  4. Loss of control from RC

    Hi, new here and I wish I wasn't posting this. Only had my I1 for a few days - lots of test flights, and no problems. Yesterday at a local park - did all the pre-flight checks, hit the takeoff btn, it lifts off and hovers, then no response from the RC. Quickly hit the land btn. It started to...
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    Crashed my Inspire 1 (I'm a fool)

    First of all..sorry for my poor english.. It was the weekend so i have plenty of time to fly around with 3 fully charged battery pack. Everything when smoothly as planned, outdoor angle, indoor angle. Done! went back home to check the footage and **** i forgot to take off the ND filter off when...