Recent content by Bmachine

Just wanted to say, UAVInsurance, that, having had the same thing happen to me, I very much sympathize with your situation! This said, one thing I have learned (and I'm sure you know this already) is to always buy directly from Amazon, not from one of their outside vendors. Sometimes you pay a...

I think the odds are probably that you will be fine. But the reality is that there is a possibility that any of them will have the dreaded mysterious catastrophic in flight power / cpu failure. So enjoy your PV but play it safe and NEVER fly it above people or anything that could get hurt if...

But, at least in my case, it is not a complete battery failure because the props were definitely still powered when it hit the water. I could see water being splashed and thrown all over the place. It seems more like a cpu failure or an individual motor issue. The two main battery power...

It dropped. It was vibrating wildly but it stayed right side up the whole descent until it hit the water. Then when the props hit the water it made it flip.

I am quite familiar with the way to shut down the props. And this is definitely not what happened. You'd have to try real hard (or be real stupid) to do that while the craft is hovering 300+ ft above ground... ;-) No, the motors were definitely still going all the way to the bottom. So much...

Thanks for the compassion guys. Very hard to tell what happened. But interesting to see that it has indeed happened to several other people also. The weird thing is how sudden it was. Perfectly nice smooth flight for 3 minutes, then I let it hover for a couple of seconds to check the...

I've had my PV2 for just 3 days. It is as it came out of the box (except for the DJI prop guards). After 4 perfect problem free flights, in the middle of the fifth one, as the craft was hovering in place at about 360 ft it suddenly started to shake and vibrate. None of the controls worked...

Unfortunately I am in the negative camp. After 4 problem free flights, in the middle of the fifth one, as the craft was hovering in place at about 360 ft it suddenly started to shake and vibrate. None of the controls worked anymore and it dropped like a stone. Landed in 2 feet of water. By the...

Thank you rbarghini and Richhealth. Very good info. I was worried about the 4 indeed. Rich, that sounds like a good workaround. Even at default settings, the realtime video DL is pretty crappy. DO you notice much degradation by switching to low? It doesn't really matter all much as long as...

Hello everyone. I had my first flight with the PV2 yesterday and everything went great. I am using the iPhone app as suggested in teh DJI tutorials Today, I started getting a few "Connection with Phantom 2 has broken" (or something like that). Then the message would disappear but hte video...

Thank you very much urgno and whitewatersalvo. Great info! So, I have to actually BUY Windows ??? That is embarrassing ! ;-) I think the difficulty of doing this firmware update is definitely a black mark on DJI. A shame really bc everything else is really first class so far. Now is there...

Sorry for the complete PC ignoramus here (been using Macs only for 20 years...) but... Do I understand correctly that the easiest way to get the firmware and software updated on my PV2 is to download and install something called "VirtualBox"? Running that will make my Mac think it's a PC and...

Re: Trying to download the .zip version of the DJI software. Thank you iDrone. I wonder if there is someone in my area who has the software on a PC and is familiar with the procedure already. Maybe he/she would be kind enough for me to stop by and do the update. I'm in the south bay of Los...

Re: Trying to download the .zip version of the DJI software. Dang! I had gotten a bad feeling about that by reading some other posts. But when saw that the DJI page offered a choice of .zip and .exe files, and that they did not say anything about PC only, I thought that they might have come...

Hello all. I just got my PV2 and, based on the info I found by reading the "Battery warning" thread, I am trying to download the PV2 Vision Assistant and RC Assistant from http://www.dji.com/download/phantom-2-vision-downloads/ It has an option for ZIP and when I hover over it, it seems to...