Recent content by Salmon Jack

The summary is back as of today, July 8th.

I used to get an email listing the most popular threads in Phantom Pilots on Saturday mornings, but that stopped on the 24th. I wonder if something changed.

And the FAA says that I need to cancel the current registration & send in an affidavit, a bill of sale, an AC 8050-1, and $5.00. Wee!

Despite assurances via phone and chat that it was being repaired and tested, I ultimately got back a third P4, which, after five flights is flying as expected. This aircraft is not new having logged 19 flights before I received it, all but one occurring in April. In the meantime, the FAA took...

My original claim was filed August 5th. Now, on September 8th, I am still without the aircraft. That's the bottom line. Presumably, DJI will send either the fifth Phantom 4 back "repaired" or will once again send a new AC, the 6th P4. Of the six P4s, only one flies. Plus the Autel didn't fly...

I called DJI. It's not normal to receive a different aircraft. I didn't know, but they sent a new P4, thus the different serial number. So, this 4th one is defective with the negative altitude reporting and wandering. I've been promised another return shipping label and likely a new case number...

In the midst of all that I tried an Autel. I sent it back to Amazon too, as despite their documentation, there's no way to retrieve log files. That's imperative for a business.

I'm on my 4th P4 since May; 2 of them have had altitude reporting problems. P4#1 flew fine for the first 70 flights and then started throwing a "2No.ESC" error on the 2nd flight of the day. I sent it in to DJI. In the meantime, since I'm trying to start a business, I bought a backup. This P4#2...

Start with flight records and data logging. I returned my X-Star (not premium) today because of this glaring omission. The downloadable manual shows a flight record icon, but tech support said yesterday (Sunday, 7/17) that is for a future firmware upgrade. They further instructed me on how to...