You're very welcome I agree with everything you said above! And LOS is key if I didn't have it I would have been toast! That's how I noticed it was taking off on me. Speed jumped up and altitude as well.Okay whew. If you were fighting it in ATTI, that's enough for me to ground the bird. Scary and very glad you were able to recover. Reading these fly aways brings up a lot of questions. Seasoned pilots should be able to recover by ATTI and not have an issue as long as we have LOS (which you should always have in my opinion - not going to preach that topic). I feel for the new pilots though. Actually, mixed feelings to be honest. If the general populous of Inspire owners are new pilots they (my opinion) :
A - Need to buy a simulator ASAP and practice orientation and flight under NON GPS mode - Hell, get proficient in flying a helicopter on the SIM.
B - Fly a smaller, indoor multi rotor and get proficient flying a non gps multi rotor.
C - Reconsider flying your Inspire until you feel comfortable flying non GPS assist.
Okay - off my soap box. Thanks again for your posts and REALLY glad you got your Inspire back.
Okay whew. If you were fighting it in ATTI, that's enough for me to ground the bird. Scary and very glad you were able to recover. Reading these fly aways brings up a lot of questions. Seasoned pilots should be able to recover by ATTI and not have an issue as long as we have LOS (which you should always have in my opinion - not going to preach that topic). I feel for the new pilots though. Actually, mixed feelings to be honest. If the general populous of Inspire owners are new pilots they (my opinion) :
A - Need to buy a simulator ASAP and practice orientation and flight under NON GPS mode - Hell, get proficient in flying a helicopter on the SIM.
B - Fly a smaller, indoor multi rotor and get proficient flying a non gps multi rotor.
C - Reconsider flying your Inspire until you feel comfortable flying non GPS assist.
Okay - off my soap box. Thanks again for your posts and REALLY glad you got your Inspire back.
Lol mines Quadzilla I will definitely keep you updatedSee, this is what happens when you name your bird The Beast...it becomes untamable.
Really sorry to hear about this near fly-away. I hope there is useful info in your log that DJI can use to troubleshoot this for everyone. Thanks for sharing. I know you'll keep us updated.
Lol no probWoops. My bad. My memory rewrote itself. PhatomDave's is The Beast...
Hey Quadzilla, so are you permanently grounded??Lol no prob
Well I'm sitting here patiently awaiting on ANY kind of word from DJI on my loGs and the next step.... Return? Ok to fly? Wait on new firmware ? Just a hello would be nice lol I have called DJI and they said to wait on Tahoe Ed to get back with me but no luck yet. And to top it off strained my back at work so I am physically grounded too lolHey Quadzilla, so are you permanently grounded??
That is unfortunate, my friend.Well I'm sitting here patiently awaiting on ANY kind of word from DJI on my loGs and the next step.... Return? Ok to fly? Wait on new firmware ? Just a hello would be nice lol I have called DJI and they said to wait on Tahoe Ed to get back with me but no luck yet. And to top it off strained my back at work so I am physically grounded too lol
I take the good with the bad so now I'm awaiting something good??? Lol come through for me Tahoe EdThat is unfortunate, my friend.
Please let us know all the updates!
I hope everything turns out good for you!
Haha ouch
man, your just having a fantastic week.
I take the good with the bad so now I'm awaiting something good??? Lol come through for me Tahoe Ed
I'm sure he's busyI know he's working on it man.
Thanks and I'm sure I'll be rotating those blades here soonSorry to read this mate, hope you get it sorted ASAP, as said before if you weren't such a experienced pilot you've could of lost it. Best of luck!
I can't determine if the pilot switched to ATTI or not (in this thread and others). Have any fly away's occurred in ATTI? That's my big concern. I mostly fly ATTI. I use GPS for a hold while I fiddle with the App or to take pictures.
So that's the question of day; are ATTI flyways occurring also?
p.s. Also glad to hear you saved her. Whew!
Oh no I bet you heart was in your mouth the whole time and I'm glad you got her back. I (and probably a lot of other owners) am getting concerned by these type incidents (and the ones reported on the DJI Forum where two people have claimed that their motors failed and their Inspire's fell from the sky) and really don't want to put mine up again until there is a fix! I had the same experience as Ian Fraser (reported on another thread) on my first flight where mine started heading off by itself at quite a pace a short time after take-off ( all calibrations/flight checks were done) and it did not respond to my stick controls. It did however, respond to a descent command and it came good after about 10 seconds. I was lucky I was in a wide open area with no trees or other obstacles to run into. I hope you get a response Quadzilla and I'm sure you will share any updates if/when you get one.
Hmmmmm another issue? Nope sure wasn't any other issue!Steve, the sky is not falling...be aware the there have only been isolated cases of catastrophic failure... Predominately there is always another issue they fail to want to admit contributed to problems...something I saw on another forum referred to as "dumb thumb" I can related to "dumb thumb" as I almost totally destroyed by Blade QX2 to it...(even though it initially had a small gps problem).
Glad you managed to get it safely back. This is the Phantom 1 & 2 all over again by the look of things.
Yet another reason we should have manual mode on the Inspire !
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