But I also suspect that most people aren't doing sustained full forward speeds to go 1.5 to 2.5 kilometer distances at 120 meter altitude. This is the nature of my flying, take off normally, slow transition to forward and climb to 120, level off and go to the limit of good FPV for that day. Doing just this with no crashes ever because there is nothing to hit at 120m, I have managed to crack through two phantom 3 advanced, and one advanced (zip tied) that proceeded to spit out occasional pieces of the retaining clips every other week. Normal, sub 10 mph winds. Again, slow translations to full forward speeds. In my case I feel that the sustained high forward speeds could be the causing the problems. While not everyone is experiencing these issues, every single time I've seen some other phantom flyer out in some field they were doing the back and forth, circling around at treetop height thing. Not once yet have I seen another guy just take off, get it high up and go far. Sure, we see them here in the forum or in the videos posted, but the guys I see out there on an everyday basis are barely skimming the surface of light bridge capabilities. Or maybe the far and high thing does not constitute a high percentage of the average pilot's flying. In my case it is 100% of my flying and I've had stress crack issues in all three phantom 3 I've owned. What I'm currently doing is keeping one in the shelf, one for sending in. I just sent one in last week that was two months old and took a new one off the shelf. But that was a good one and I started to actually trust it's shell until the retention clips started cracking. I did have it zip tied which has been really effective against the two screw hole locations if tight enough. I love these phantoms but hate the plastic.