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ethankailey Posted at 2018-6-24 13:17
I don't agree with anything you have posted, but most casual users, don't fully understand the specific details about the "options" and "features". Most of you are seasoned veterans and I believe are in elite 5% that compromises of the buyers. Majority of the buyers are weekend flyers, sold by the advertisements of what these drones are capable of achieving. I did have one of the parent in control of the drone with clear VLOS in case it flew away or got too close to the kids around. I had explained about the Obstacle Avoidance feature so the user with the control's only responsibility was to keep the eye on the drone in case it came too close to the vicinity of the kids that were watching the boy learning to ride the bike with me closely behind, in case he lost control of the bike.
I see O.A. to be a fail safe application and in my case, it didn't work. These drones are about $1k, and if the major selling point or the feature ceases to work, don't you agree that DJI should do it's part to make sure that it works? If you are buying a car, shouldn't you expect the cruise control to work? Better yet, if you are buying Tesla with Autonomous features, shouldn't you expect it to work?
I'm a weekend casual amateur flier, for the record. As you may know, the driver must always pay attention and be ready to take control even with Tesla autonomous driving.
See:
http://www.businessinsider.com/t ... e-car-itself-2017-6
https://forums.tesla.com/forum/f ... -you-are-not-driver
"I see O.A. to be a fail safe application"
There are a dozen different reasons it could fail, so I conclude you can't rely on it. I encourage you to use OA as a backup, but I think a pilot should always have their fingers on the sticks and ready to take control at a moment's notice. Many, many times my drone has been in autopilot mode doing something or other and I took control, and aborted whatever autopilot mode it was in. Often this was because I could see it was headed towards a tree or something similar and I was not convinced the OA and APAS would work.
My main point: APAS and OA are not 100% fool proof, and DJI makes this abundently clear in their documentation. Therefore, you should not rely on it.
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