I know there is disagreement on the true cause of all the incidents of crashes, fly aways, malfunctions etc, but there has to be some general consensus as to what is causing all this.
I was ready to jump at one of these when I discovered this board and while I am familiar with the emergency room nature of any enthusiast forum the tales of disaster are far to frequent and diverse to be down to poor flying habits or inexperience.
It seems that there must be some sort of:
A: software or firmware bug that under a specific set of parameters causes a system crash
B: lousy quality control resulting in poor connections and build
C: tech that is too susceptible to outside interference rendering control from the ground inoperative.
I was initially thinking that too many people hadn't done preflight adequately or were flying in inappropriate conditions but the stories of drones just flying away or falling out of the sky are too common and to ignore and not everyone can be that irresponsible.
That brings me to my $$$ question. What is the general board feeling on this issue? Do we see it being resolved with a firmware update? Has DJI produced models with this sort of high failure rate or are we seeing a larger number of new flyers and therefore more failures? How is DJI's track record with responding to issues like this?
Don't want to spend $1500 before I can determine that the problems have been limited or mitigated.
Thanks
I was ready to jump at one of these when I discovered this board and while I am familiar with the emergency room nature of any enthusiast forum the tales of disaster are far to frequent and diverse to be down to poor flying habits or inexperience.
It seems that there must be some sort of:
A: software or firmware bug that under a specific set of parameters causes a system crash
B: lousy quality control resulting in poor connections and build
C: tech that is too susceptible to outside interference rendering control from the ground inoperative.
I was initially thinking that too many people hadn't done preflight adequately or were flying in inappropriate conditions but the stories of drones just flying away or falling out of the sky are too common and to ignore and not everyone can be that irresponsible.
That brings me to my $$$ question. What is the general board feeling on this issue? Do we see it being resolved with a firmware update? Has DJI produced models with this sort of high failure rate or are we seeing a larger number of new flyers and therefore more failures? How is DJI's track record with responding to issues like this?
Don't want to spend $1500 before I can determine that the problems have been limited or mitigated.
Thanks