corekiteboardin
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Sorry for your mixed feelings on the video guys.
But...
Running a store I have to tell you I get loads of upsetting phone calls, emails, walk in customers who just tore up their gimbal on their first or second day. I'm the one who has to tell them that a new one is $679. One guy had his two days and just tapped a neighbor's tree and tore the ribbon cable. Another one plunked it into a sidewalk on the first day in front of his house. Another guy sent his to us in pieces, and bought a new one his first week. Two days ago another guy called me an said his just turned and hit the ground. Who knows? So owning a store we are on the front lines of this and it's messy. From all the carnage we get to see after this happens we resorted to showing new customers at the store in person how to remove it for the first week. They go home fly there, or fly at the store in the field with our guidance. They come back and are happy that we had them remove it. They enjoyed learning the ropes of line of sight flying and getting to know their aircraft.
People are not stoked when they hear that they are either going to have to send it back to DJI for repair and wait a month or more, or buy a new gimbal. Most of the guys that I walk through taking the camera off are happy they learned to fly it first. Then enjoy the camera next. It's a logical progression in R/C. None of the long time pilots went right into flying FPV before learning to fly an R/C aircraft first.
We also said. POSSIBLY crash. So yes, we assume everyone crashes at some point. Hell, I've been flying for 20 years.
I don't crash much, but I do crash.
Yes taking it off yourself is a known risk as we point out. But flying it with no prior R/C experience is MORE risky.
We do teach people to open up NAZA M and utilize those modes. Theres a video on that one specifically.
Also, kenargo.
I mention flying various R/C simulators, and smaller quads before flying a Phantom.
It's not hard to take the gimbal off.
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