Welcome Inspire Pilots!
Join our free DJI Inspire community today!
Sign up

The cause of >99% of flyaways [ some productive tips & argument]

Joined
Sep 27, 2015
Messages
58
Reaction score
18
Age
38
Pilots in DJI's forum has provided some productive tips for safe flying concluded from real crashes or some accidents.. points like ground level wind speed being deceiving, inappropriate situations for GPS locking, take off too fast without pre-flight etc..
Also found some productive argument for crashed cases too, convenience made us ignore some of the most basic skills, however the drones nowadays are indeed getting easier to control, people getting lazier, some of the most important common sense is no more common.

All started from the content
The cause of flyaways is >99% pilot error (the remaining small percentage being inadequacies in safety provision / failure to account for black swan events e.g. IMU FW problem pre Jan 15 2015 for Inspire 1) and in turn this is because people do not read the manual. The thing that has changed dramatically in 2 years is that when enthusiasts who had to figure out how to put their flight controllers and GPS systems and batteries and... together to get a short flight, people also made mistakes but kicked themselves and learned. Now, we have a whole new generation of flyers who have never flown before, who don't believe in reading manuals, but who are very ready to call the manufacturer names when they make elementary mistakes. Not nice but this is the price of 'ease of use' marketing and success.

More to be found here, hope it would do some help for you guys
DJI Forum|The cause of >99% of flyaways ...... (a very dirty secret)
 
Pilots in DJI's forum has provided some productive tips for safe flying concluded from real crashes or some accidents.. points like ground level wind speed being deceiving, inappropriate situations for GPS locking, take off too fast without pre-flight etc..
Also found some productive argument for crashed cases too, convenience made us ignore some of the most basic skills, however the drones nowadays are indeed getting easier to control, people getting lazier, some of the most important common sense is no more common.

All started from the content
The cause of flyaways is >99% pilot error (the remaining small percentage being inadequacies in safety provision / failure to account for black swan events e.g. IMU FW problem pre Jan 15 2015 for Inspire 1) and in turn this is because people do not read the manual. The thing that has changed dramatically in 2 years is that when enthusiasts who had to figure out how to put their flight controllers and GPS systems and batteries and... together to get a short flight, people also made mistakes but kicked themselves and learned. Now, we have a whole new generation of flyers who have never flown before, who don't believe in reading manuals, but who are very ready to call the manufacturer names when they make elementary mistakes. Not nice but this is the price of 'ease of use' marketing and success.

More to be found here, hope it would do some help for you guys
DJI Forum|The cause of >99% of flyaways ...... (a very dirty secret)

This is all very old info (dates back to February of this year so is almost a year out of date)
 
  • Like
Reactions: SanCap
What about sudden change of GPS coordinates when using RTH? What about losing control and flying away and not to start point? What about battery error? We've got many many many different issues where pilots were flying 50 times ok and on 51th their Inspire either flown away or crashed for unknown reason.
It's always easy for the manufacturer to say "pilots are the main problem" rather than say "sorry guys, our electronics costs 5k usd but we still need to work on it"
 

Members online

No members online now.

Forum statistics

Threads
22,277
Messages
210,655
Members
34,325
Latest member
LewisuhaAbips