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I would like to get an idea or the airworthiness of the Inspire 1 airframe. So I propose a short survey for all interested parties. I understand that it won’t be scientific as it’s a self-selected sample but it may be the best we can get. Please take part even if you have never crashed your Inspire as this is useful data too.
This data may be useful to anybody looking at FAA or CAA manuals where an airworthiness case is being made. It is anecdotal and I may be wrong but I get the feeling there are relatively few instances where an Inspire just drops out of the sky when it was being used within its design parameters.
I definitely don’t want to include instances where a pilot just flew into something and crashed as this is obviously pilot error. I do want to include instances where the airframe and its systems appeared to contribute in some way (so to start off, I have had 1 crash where the Inspire drifted into a shed due to a faulty flight controller – replaced under warranty with no quibble). In this case the root cause was pilot error as I shouldn’t have been testing a new UAV in a complex environment but lesson learned – one step up from me was a fault with the aircraft.
Please provide a brief explanation of your crash plus hours flown so I can do some deeper analysis. It would also be good if you were happy for me to contact you separately to define details.
I don’t want this to become a thread to diagnose individual crashes – set up separate threads for that. This is about collecting and analysing some information that may be useful to the Inspire 1 community as a whole. After I have had this running (and assuming we get enough responses to make it worthwhile – I am more than happy to publish the results to anybody who is interested (with highlights on the forum, naturally.
If we can break it down into systems I guess it would look something like:
Mechanical failure (prop/airframe/solder joints)
Electronic failure (component fault e.g. failed ESC)
Firmware failure (there were some of these a few versions ago when the Inspire gave some very strange responses to stick inputs)
Battery Failure (only want to know if the battery was being used within its standard use parameters)
Signal failure
So, who’s in?
This data may be useful to anybody looking at FAA or CAA manuals where an airworthiness case is being made. It is anecdotal and I may be wrong but I get the feeling there are relatively few instances where an Inspire just drops out of the sky when it was being used within its design parameters.
I definitely don’t want to include instances where a pilot just flew into something and crashed as this is obviously pilot error. I do want to include instances where the airframe and its systems appeared to contribute in some way (so to start off, I have had 1 crash where the Inspire drifted into a shed due to a faulty flight controller – replaced under warranty with no quibble). In this case the root cause was pilot error as I shouldn’t have been testing a new UAV in a complex environment but lesson learned – one step up from me was a fault with the aircraft.
Please provide a brief explanation of your crash plus hours flown so I can do some deeper analysis. It would also be good if you were happy for me to contact you separately to define details.
I don’t want this to become a thread to diagnose individual crashes – set up separate threads for that. This is about collecting and analysing some information that may be useful to the Inspire 1 community as a whole. After I have had this running (and assuming we get enough responses to make it worthwhile – I am more than happy to publish the results to anybody who is interested (with highlights on the forum, naturally.
If we can break it down into systems I guess it would look something like:
Mechanical failure (prop/airframe/solder joints)
Electronic failure (component fault e.g. failed ESC)
Firmware failure (there were some of these a few versions ago when the Inspire gave some very strange responses to stick inputs)
Battery Failure (only want to know if the battery was being used within its standard use parameters)
Signal failure
So, who’s in?