Recent content by James Waugh

I'm sure it has been discussed multiple times but it doesn't hurt anyone to remind new members or new owners. I personally had not previously seen a post about mid-flight CSC.

I did replay the flight and the last thing recorded was left stick down to left and right stick down to right. At the time I was doing a shot that went straight up. When I started to bring it down and to the right I apparently inadvertently pushed the left controller to the left causing the...

After 20+ hours of flying and on my 177th flight I had my inspire drop from 400 feet narrowly missing a subject I was filming. There was no warning, it just dropped. I posted footage of the crash on a previous post and many readers speculated that I'd had a motor failure. When I called DJI...

So I just phoned the US DJI office and have started an RMA. I told them my Inspire was the 2nd Inspire I've heard about dropping from the sky this week. He was careful with his words but he did say that sometime things happen. I asked specifically if there was an unusual amount of failures...

I had no warning message appear before it started to drop. As it was falling I did get a RED NO SIGNAL warning.

I really don't think there was any prop problems on this flight. All 4 props were tight on the crashed inspire. I had locking clips that were still on all 4 props. One prop has partially damaged on impact. A second prop was broken near the center but I found the missing piece less that 2...

I have 4 batteries that I use so it's not 21 hours on one battery. This particular flight had a 5700mAh battery that is approximately 5 months old.

The battery was at 94% when I took off. The charge was a few days old. Why I replay the data on the flight there is no sudden drop in battery. The entire flight was 5 minutes. The battery was at 61% when this happened.

I just tried powering it up. It does turn on although I get a new deeper tone that repeats every second. When I try to power up the props I do get an ESC error on my display screen. I am not familiar with extracting the flight.dat but is seems like I will be able to get that. It's very...

I agree. The broken prop was less than two feet from the crash site.

At the crash site I did locate the broken prop.

That's a good call obviously. I did not look hard for small pieces. I go back to the crash site and see if it's there.

Yes. All the props were attached. Two were broken. It crashed extremely hard into a lawn. I'm assuming the props broke at that point. The data in my flight library ends during mid flight which I thought was interesting.

My INSPIRE also had a complete failure yesterday... Dropped from 400 feet!. With no warning it just dropped from the sky. The battery was over 60% at the time of the incident. I happened to be doing a shot the required me going straight up from my location. I have tried to create a new...