PeteGould
Second Officer
United States
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I don't know. But it's getting really damned creepy.
I flew four packs yesterday without incident. Varying altitudes, distances, etc.
Thus far there are only two issues that I've seen in my own experience. In one, I ran into an issue after programming a distance boundary and when the Inspire encountered it, it became impossible to disengage from it until RTH triggered. This could have been user error - the bird was very new. The other issue involves loss of video feed when running dual controllers (haven't seen it with a single controller). Other than that, my own experience has been flawless. I never fly on a partial charge and I always start heading for home at 50% and am prepared to land shortly after the first critical battery warning. I always run the current firmware and current app, and I keep the firmware update .bin file in the root folder of the MicroSD card as a matter of habit. I use an iPad Air 2 which is kept in airplane mode. Since it is wifi only, I use an iPhone 6+ running as a hotspot to update the map.
With that said, a number of these incidents involve Inspires that have had many successful previous flights and then suddenly, out of the blue, Something Goes Wrong. So there is nothing magical about what I'm doing. I hope we can collate enough data to establish a pattern. |
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