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DJI Phantoms and the more common clones by Walkera and other manufacturers are well known for going on "journeys of self discovery." When connection with remote
by x0054 12y ago
DJI Phantoms and the more common clones by Walkera and other manufacturers are well known for going on "journeys of self discovery." When connection with remote drops, they are supposed to come back home, but some just tend to fly away, never to be seen again. One of those dropping on your head from 200 feet in the air will kill you!
- baddox 12y agoI have never seen evidence that fly-aways area used by anything other than basic misuse, namely, not verifying that there is a GPS signal before flying. Granted, I think software changes could mitigate this, and I think I remember hearing that DJI released an update along these lines). Still, misuse of plenty of things can have a probability of killing someone. Automobiles are the most obvious example. Bicycles are a great example, since they can be had for similar prices and similar restrictions (i.e. basically none) as quadcopters. Even a baseball propelled from a bat can kill someone at least as easily (and I would argue much more easily) as a DJI Phantom.