Absolutely right on!! I've flown RC birds (
no quad copters) for more than twenty years until I bought the Phantom 3 Professional. I'd get most of my enjoyment from the heli's. I still have two high performance heli's that I barely ever get into the air anymore on account of the DJI Phantom 3 and I don't regret a second of it.
When I'd go to the flying club and one of the members had himself a new heli, I could often tell by what he was doing as a pre-flight check that his new toy wouldn't be in the air very long that day. Once again it turned out I was right and his bird usually came down at about a hundred miles an hour, and after one huge bounce that resulted in a mangled mess of aluminum and plastic, his flying day was over. The first thing the "pilot" would look at was the radio as if a huge hammer had just jumped out of his radio and landed on his heli. Then, the cursing would start, as well as the running around like an idiot while all the time blaming the
%^@!& radio for what it just did to his $1,200. heli.
The fact is, it was pilot error. A guy with little or no experience flying anything except for a fixed-wing aircraft with enough dihedral to hold a bowl of soup. Two or three weeks with a trainer aircraft and he was expert enough to go out and buy himself an expensive heli so he could show all his friends what a great pilot he was.
Now we have these very same people discovering the Phantom or any other quad copter for that matter, and with hardly a minute of training with nose-in orientation on any bird, wonder why, after only a few minutes flying their brand new Phantom, they end up crashing and then trying right away to find who to blame.
Finally, the advertising. "
You can fly it right out of the box." Well,
sure you
can. It's dead easy to fly a Phantom or any quad copter right out of the box.
Keeping it in the air however, is a whole different story. Without experience or training of
some sort, it won't be in the air for long, and that's the plain truth of the matter.
The fact is, that
most crashes with anything RC is often human error but very seldom will a pilot admit it.
Bud
It has absolutely nothing to do with DJI hardware or software, it is completely one fact and one fact only. These drones are becoming more popular than ever with all sorts of people purchasing them with absolutely no ability or experience flying anything. Then when they crash or lose their drone their total inability to accept fault, and needing to lash out and blame someone else, the manufacturer.
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