Recent content by PhanFran

I really can't believe some people are still talking about handcatching their drones. I'm an orthopaedic surgeon and we see at the emergency wards more and more hand-catchers. Last week there was a case of a 14-year old trying to handcatch his father's P3A. His father who is a colleague of mine...

I fear it has not so much to do with bad luck, much more with irresponsible flying habits.

"Three seconds of apparent lack of descent would be enough to trigger motor shut down " ????? Where do you get that from. That would be completely ridiculous. 1) I have loads of flights where the barometer reading doesn't change a bit while the craft is descending and never the motors stopped...

I actually find the second series of pictures worse than the first...

Looking at the Healthydrones logs you pushed the RTH button so many times RTH was engaged then disengaged again then engaged again etc.... Probably during one of these frantic pushes you inadvertently put the left stick in the lower right position which -now- is a CSC and stops the motors.

Maybe you should realize the Phantom is a PHOTOGRAPHIC device, meant to take pictures or video while you don't have to be too busy flying the thing. Whatever it can or could or should be able to do, it was certainly not DESIGNED to do tricks with. Sent from my iPad using PhantomPilots mobile app

I don't see much wrong with that picture-quality, even less when considering the poor light conditions it was shot in Sent from my iPad using PhantomPilots mobile app

Responsible pilot, yes, although, in my case i started fiddling with the intelligent fly modes only after several weeks, even months, of flying the 'normal' way and getting experienced with this very nice but also very complex flying machine. Sent from my iPad using PhantomPilots mobile app

Yes, I know...Brussels, Molenbeek, Belgium...all names that have been in the news because first the terrorists that attacked Paris seem to have planned that crime in Brussels, later Brussels Airport and Metro were bombed also. Headlines all over the world called our country a "Failed State"...