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How has making it a little less likely for one to inadvertently do a CSC made it worse for the rest of us?
Simple question really. I can't think of a good answer.
Phantom 4 CSC procedure is changed?
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How has making it a little less likely for one to inadvertently do a CSC made it worse for the rest of us?
Simple question really. I can't think of a good answer.
Oh I can see a noob pilot suddenly losing signal and moving the control sticks for a response and not realizing the left stick is still down while holding the RTH. Won't happen often but I'm sure it will happen as it's not 100% fool-proof.
We won't know until someone needs to perform an emergency engine shutdown & is left wondering why pulling both sticks down & in isn't stopping the motors. 
We need an "Advanced Flight Controls" & "Dweeb Flight Controls" setting.
We need an "Advanced Flight Controls" & "Dweeb Flight Controls" setting.
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You have to use this same "Down left/RTH button" procedure to start the motors also?
Hopefully they remember how they started the motors
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We won't know until someone needs to perform an emergency engine shutdown & is left wondering why pulling both sticks down & in isn't stopping the motors.
We need an "Advanced Flight Controls" & "Dweeb Flight Controls" setting.
Right they'll have to remember how to do an emergency shutdown as opposed to not knowing they did an emergency shutdown? Either way it crashes?
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Let's hope they didn't just replace the CSC function in some cases. That would be crazy confusing, no?
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Like I said, I am basing my information from the number of reports on this site. It's a perfectly representative sample of the entire base.
We can only base it on what we know. As I said, I recollect 2 or 3 on this site. Most all Phantoms died from other user errors. And then battery death. And then ESC failures. CSC is far down the list. And entirely avoidable.
So why not fix it? I'll make my point again. To CSC, you need to descend at 100% while yawing at 100% while moving backwards at 100% while moving sideways at 100%. If you are flying like this, you will crash anyway. Removing CSC won't help you.
And finally, I am making a point about this for all the new people. If you don't fly like a total lunatic, you will never see this problem.
Even in a Lamborghini if you turn the wheel all the way right while slamming on the brakes, the car does not actually explode and if you tried to add that feature, the owners would not be pleased I suspect.
Neither does the Phantom (explode). But it may crash, as would the Lamborghini.
Lol, I remember when Smith and Wesson first tried to idiot proof their semi autos. What an utter an complete fluster cluck that was.
Never in my career have I seen so many patrol car floorboards, police station lobby clocks and bathroom urinals killed by a solution to a problem that didn't need fixing. Not to mention all the times it wouln't shoot when it needed to.
Never in my career have I seen so many patrol car floorboards, police station lobby clocks and bathroom urinals killed by a solution to a problem that didn't need fixing. Not to mention all the times it wouln't shoot when it needed to.
ianwood
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You clearly haven't been around Lambos much: https://www.google.com/search?q=lambo fire
The Phantom is the Ford F150 of drones. Don't drive it like it's a Lambo.
Lol. You mean jaguar. They come with a towing policy, two fire extinguishers and a fuse tester.
If there is signal loss, that craft will not receive a CSC command. Maybe if its only a video signal loss.
Not me, I took the time to read the manual.We won't know until someone needs to perform an emergency engine shutdown & is left wondering why pulling both sticks down & in isn't stopping the motors.
We need an "Advanced Flight Controls" & "Dweeb Flight Controls" setting.
If the DJI list is to be believed, inadvertently doing a CSC is the number one cause of pilot error crashes. Quite possibly the reason you don't see people talking about it is because it's embarrassing, and totally avoidable.
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That answered good question for me. When I had a friend catch my copter and I use the CSC with the two sticks inword. And the copter wouldn't stop and It actually accelerated. I was like what the heck Now it makes sense why didn't shut off right away.
Yes, many times video goes out first, anyway that's the way it should be to minimize losses. If video is lost I doubt anyone would give craft down left stick, only a moron would do that. I always climb higher to get video signal back. Descending is suicide in most any video lost scenario, so CaptainDrone's suggestion really isn't realistic. However, I'm sure accidental CSCs do happen. What's really dumb is DJI added "down left stick" + "RTH" combo to shut down the motors mid-flight, but didn't remove the two stick CSC to shut down the drone. That's really dumb, give the public another way to accidentally shut the motors off mid-flight. Good one DJI.
I never use CSC to shut down motors because I usually catch the drone with my right hand and give full down left stick with my left hand. It's kinda hard to give a two stick commands with one hand, unless you use a harness.
