paraviz02
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Blackwood Posted at 2017-9-3 14:51
The problems that paraviz02 listed above are so common that many companies are no longer allowing DJI drones on their worksite because they can't be trusted do to safety issues. Kind of hard to have a drone business when your fleet is grounded due to changes the manufacturer made after you purchased their product. Like the others said, the I2 was unbelievable when we first got it, but after the June firmware update and the app updates, it can't be trusted. My old Phantom 2 that doesn't run off of any DJI apps, just off the remote itself is more reliable now.
Yea, being safe at a work site is the biggest thing. I mean, it's one thing to be at the park or out in the woods, and your drone goes wonky and crashes into a tree with nobody around.
But in a situation where, for example, you're at a work site that has many people working here and there -- where control and reliability are EXTREMELY IMPORTANT -- that's where it's hard to say "yep, we're good."
Also though, we plan to fly in some very beautiful outdoor area in Utah wilderness. And in those situations, we could really be able to fly where a human actually cannot go. Completely within FAA guidelines for safe flying. But with this firmware, I definitely wouldn't trust it 100% going and taking video of these places and having a safe return home. Just too much weird stuff.
I remember on the old firmware, sometimes we would have control issues, but the HD video feed seemed to NEVER even have a single hiccup. And to be honest, I rarely remember actually losing control. We got "weak signal transmission" or something along those lines from time to time, or the equivalent message for the HD video, but not like it is now with the nearly constant disconnects (either video or RC).
I know for a fact that DJI has it in them to deliver UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE technology. I've used it, and it has made me drool. I've seen the potential. I know that DJI has some serious intelligence behind their products and their execution. So whatever happened this time is just weird and very discouraging. I can't wait to have my Inspire 2 running the way it used to fly.
All that being said, for me, it is as simple as DJI acknowledging the situation and addressing it in some way or another. We shouldn't be sitting here at this point, over two months out, scratching our heads wondering what DJI will be doing. DJI's products are still the most beautifully designed, with excellent engineering behind all of it. So it's definitely unfortunate. |
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