Recent content by Railhound

That is a really interesting video. Obviously a fault in the Return to Home logic. Man this sure looks like a device that is fighting with itself. It is spinning round and round. Looks like a classic firmware race condition. In any case, there clearly is an error in the device. Some kids found...

Hey that's a good idea. I wonder how useful that would be if you bought an automobile and the steering wheel came off in your hands. No steering ... Caveat Emptor. Too bad for you. And a device that works.

And just how do you know that? From what I have read and from what has happened to me personally all of the flyaways - meaning uncontrolled flight often involving the complete loss of the device - were because the systems failed. These systems failures are documented all over the internet. The...

Dalite - Thank you. For some reason I hadn't seen your messages until now (probably didn't click the notify box). Well this is about the best message I have ever seen written anywhere on problem solving. Obviously you have spent time debugging problem situations and have had the experience of...

I posted similar information on another blog but I thought it would be useful to add at least one point here. If you want to see the thread about flyaways and lots of discussion see here: http://www.djiguys.com/Forum/viewtopic. ... 2&start=15 Since we know commercial GPS can be susceptible to...

Dr. Joe, Great steps to help prevent a flyaway until DJI actuallly fixes the issue. To bad for the rest of us that read the manuals, watched the videos, downloaded all of the lastest firmware before flight and then expected the device to operate as advertised. Of course it doesn't but your...

A flyaway is not a matter of if but when. I don't want to repeat myself here. Follow this link: http://www.djiguys.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3922&hilit=flyaway&start=15

Except when the technology that is designed to save you from crashes actually causes them and you have no way recovering, you ought to not fly that device. That is the point here.

The fact of the matter is that DJI has not responded to these concerns. I tried calling today and they are experiencing such a high volume of calls they simply hung up the phone. Or should I say the phone robot hung up the phone. What does that tell you? They advertise a product that has...

Except that at take off if you have an incorrect GPS lock to start with, it flight fly back to where it thinks its home point is - if that erroneous home location is out of range limits. If that happens you won't have time to reset the home location because the Phantom will just take off. Good...

So what you are sayings is that the GPS mode is faulty and you should not use it. If that's the case then #3 is not all that important since you are going to fly it in manual mode only an d not worry about the return to home function. Except I suppose if the GPS "hops" to another location...

Re: Phantom 2 Vision+ Flyaway Cause and Resoultion xgeek, Please re-read what you wrote. You said that my conclusion was wrong because people were having these issues in prior versions. I showed you where the function exists in the first Phantoms. They didn't take that functionality away with...

Re: Phantom 2 Vision+ Flyaway Cause and Resoultion You are incorrect. Please see the Naza-M quick start manual page 22 here: http://www.dji.com/product/phantom/downloadThe earlier Phantoms had the same concept. As far as the speed goes, let's put it this way, it was so fast that there was...

Phantom 2 Vision+ Flyaway Cause and Resoultion So my tale of woe is that I did all of the usual pre-flight checking and set up. GPS lock was on. All green lights. Camera connected. All good to go. As usual, I slowly powered up my Phantom 2 + for a nice slow ascent. Just a couple of seconds...