Everyone always says the phantom is a flying camera. It sure is. But as for the "get a racer" ideology, it's not a good long distance solution. I own one. Immersion vortex 250 pro. While great, it just does not work for the 2 kilometer distance flights I do over ocean. Someone suggested a fixed wing. Impossible since I fly from a balcony on a building directly in front of the Adriatic or another balcony at my apartment in the alps. Hence, no muss no fuss flights over sea or mountains. Another stated that 2 kilometers to some island, 2 kilometers back, at max GPS sensor off speed, 15-17 meters per second, is abuse. Abuse? Then why is sport mode on there? For cute little 30 second bursts of speed? Over long distances I actually stayed off sport mode because I was still a non believer in the new shell on spite of the far superior motor mounting. I felt from the start that the design was far superior but still didn't trust DJI's material thicknesses. A Colin Chapman approach to getting the maximum flight time. For those not familiar with the approach of Lotus' founder, Chunky wanted parts to break just after 2 hours. The average duration of a formula 1 race. If it broke in three hours it was too heavy. Hence, in the seventies, it was said that if you got a Lotus ride, you would either win the championship or die. But getting back to phantoms, flght time is an issue I never gave a rat's *** about. I would always gladly give up a couple of minutes in order to get a a stronger fuselage. But I realize, by my 1032 kilometers flown in 129 flights, that not many are flying those distances. And flight duration dissatisfaction is still a top topic in the forums. While I'm not doing abrupt direction changes, it seems that wind turbulence exposure time at speed is what is affecting my birds. As of now every phantom since 1. For my needs, anything with lightbridge is ideal. The inspire is still too big even though I'm gravitating towards it. I really hoped the p4 would be DJI's farewell to stress cracks. I'm already flying my new spare p4. Long distance flight because I've photographed every centimeter of the mountains surrounding my apartment so now it's just flying for the sport of it. Hovering is ok sometimes but mountain or ocean flying is what I prefer. I'll send in the cracked bird next week. If they fix it for free great. If not, fine as well. It is what it is until somebody makes a strong shelled bird. Or I'll just buy an inspire where the arms are easily swapped.