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miketmtpro Posted at 2018-8-3 06:59
FWIW and as I have posted many times, ANY mfg that makes these drones have to have apps that function for the devices. iOS Android does not matter.
The number of failing Android Apps for devices even included on the supported list are to me, and other droners just as dangerous and threatening to the hobby as are some idiot pilots. In fact in recent months I consider the app failures more of a threat to the droning community than I do a dumb pilot near an airfield. Why? Because flyaways end up somewhere.. App disconnects of late have many times resulted in lost drones. Pilot is freaking out, devices are still connected but the app is down. Time is ticking. If that happened 15 min mid flight, user has just a couple minutes to figure it out. He presses RTH.. ohh but battery will not support RTH.. what happens? lands somewhere it is not supposed to be., or RH is not set properly and you have one fly into the side of a hotel building as one did recently (Mavic Air) at OC Md.
First off I agree app should work, that’s a given, but what do we all know about apps, we know in everyday use apps continually get bugs, we update apps on a daily basis because of bugs, so apps can be problem some.
Your analogy regarding drone out with not enough battery to get home, is not a very good one, because in the first place how is drone supposed to get back home whether it looses FPV or not, this is completely dangerous on the users part, so it doesn’t make any sense.
Your drone is illegal to fly only in FPV so this must also be taken into account, in your need to impress on us that it’s more dangerous to the community than idiots flying around breaking rules, and as someone who belongs to a drone club, the fact that you completely ignore the fact that flying within VLOS and having a plan as to what to do when something goes wrong is more of an indictment on you.
With regards to app not working on some android devices, this is a problem, but I have not seen many cases around here where drone crashed or was lost as a direct result of loosing FPV , and again user should be flying in VLOS, if he chooses to fly BVLOS then he is fully responsible for what happens as the pilot of the craft, as I’m sure you are well aware.
To date we have seen no reports here of damage to persons or property because of this problem. It was also noted in Recent FW update notes, that if there were problems that we could both revert back to older FW or SW.
You may have seen different on Facebook, but I’ve been on the Facebook page and Frankly what’s going on with some pilots over there regarding idiot flying is nothing short of shocking and failing app pales into significant from what I see happening.
Yes dji need to get app working for users of Mavic Pro Mavic Air, incidentally this problem seems to be having little or no effect on phantom inspire or Matrice users, and hopefully dji are working on improving the app for all of us.
For some this is a war for others the need to help if they can those having problems with the app, but continually being shot down for making any suggestions. Being that users will have to wait to get update of app, the community here are trying to help those who are having problems, I believe dji are well aware of the problem and hopefully new solutions will come soon. |
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