A year ago DJI was reported to be selling 30,000 Phantoms per month.
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And how many problems have you read about here? Maybe a couple of dozen in the past two or three years?
People rarely come to the forums to say that "I had another amazing, yet uneventful flight today".
Go to
http://www.flytrex.com/explore/ and count how many flights have been logged in the past hour worldwide. I counted 10. Then think about how many drone owners even have a Flytrex Live unit on their aircraft? Generously, 10%? That would mean more than 100 flights in just the past hour.
Keep the scare stories in perspective.
And buy a tracker. It's cheap insurance.