Almost lost her!!!
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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.
). 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.
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
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
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.
I totally agree. ATTI is the way to go. It's not that difficult to fly in ATTI if you understand it and pay attention to what you're doing. I like GPS, but under the current FW, it's not dependable enough to rely on IMHO.
Speaking of GPS issues...
Just did a quick chat session with DJI Inspire support. I asked about a firmware update to address GPS dropout issues. They said to expect an update in a few days.
Just did a quick chat session with DJI Inspire support. I asked about a firmware update to address GPS dropout issues. They said to expect an update in a few days.
Lol mines Quadzilla I will definitely keep you updated
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 lol
That 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 take the good with the bad so now I'm awaiting something good??? Lol come through for me Tahoe Ed
I know he's working on it man.
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Sorry 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'm sure he's busy
One just wouldn't think that they have that much to go through?
Thanks and I'm sure I'll be rotating those blades here soon
lots of skill and a little luck to boot lolSteve, 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).
Ha...great choice on the music! My senses are always on high alert when flying this puppy.
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