While I often hear about massive numbers of those who never experience stress cracks, I also ofen see other phantom pilots out there flying. Almost always they are just flying about slowly back and forth around trees and barely higher than them. I honestly doubt those guys will ever see stress cracks. While I'm highly critical of folks flying higher than 120 meters, 100 to 120 is my altitude for 100% of my flights. Here is a typical one below. Mostly I fly over ocean. And yes, sustained 15-16 meters per second, 33-35 mph for 2-3 km distances like below has given me stress crack issues every time. Nowhere in any of the phantom 3 marketing material or instructions is it stated that long distances must be flown slowly. I never fly in higher than rated wind speeds. I hope, I truly do, that my current phantom 3 number 4 does not crack. If it does, it goes in and I'll get an inspire this time around. While it is too big for me, not once have I read anything about stress cracks on those guys.
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