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I guess I'm somewhat flabbergasted that someone who admits flying over water for many months - thinks the Phantom has a guarantee to never have any unscheduled landings! I'm amazed it lasted that long. If I were to fly mostly over water, I doubt I'd get 10 flights before my bird went down for one reason or another.
More power to anyone if DJI replaces or fixes a crashed unit.....
The USA actually has pretty decent consumer protection laws. However, we also understand the concept of user risk. For example, you can go to a ski area and crash into rocks, trees, buildings, etc. and cannot sue the company or state (in VT, for example). It's implied that the sport of skiing is dangerous.
It would seem to me that an experimental hobby like R/C also entails a lot of risk. I flew model rockets for many years and never asked Estes to replace those which I lost. I built Balsa airplanes which only lasted for 2 flights - never asked any company to replace those.
Short of a known and admitted defect...unrelated to lack of maintenance or to any normal failure rate of experimental aircraft.....I don't think any crash would or should be covered. The only way to do this would be to raise prices so that those of us who fly more carefully will be penalized by those who take greater risks.
While a component failure within the warranty period should be covered, if this happened when I was flying over a volcano, DJI should not have to fix or replace my melted craft. I'd have to recover the craft and open it and show a failed component. Or, DJI would have to have a specific tech bulletin about said part, etc.
I constantly get asked why I state "if you continually fly your Phantom over water, chances are great that you will lose it to King Neptune". I say it because it is true.....not trying to stop people from taking risks, just trying to educate them that they need to consider them.
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