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This sounds pretty good. I like the idea of having a user defined height limiter. I just hope that it remains user defined. I could see future multi rotors having their height limited to below 400 feet at the consumer level. I also like the Y6 motor fail safe feature. I decided on a Y6...

Just don't use the intelligent cut off feature and you can command stick kill the power to the motors.

They look stronger than my Gemfan carbon fiber props that sent my ship down. The hub looks solid.

I think it may be an agreement to sell DJI props if they sell motors or the flight system from DJI.

I think people find this forum after having a prop induced crash.

The biggest culprit for crashes are from cheap props breaking in flight. It's not the cost, but the quality of prop construction. By far most of these crashes are from quads and hexas losing one in flight. I don't know what's better: a craft that drops straight down from the sky or one...

You're not alone.

lol! Yes... One motor gone on a quad, hexa and it's straight down. I lost a prop and watched my hexa do the Dance of Death. I knew there was no hope and I became a spectator. :) My craft banked 90 degrees after a flurry of activity and just dropped straight down. It took me an hour of...

Man...confidence level going down. I built a Y6 hoping for redundancy in case I lose a prop (last crash) or motor/ESC. I did have one strange occurrence while my craft was in RTH mode. It was windy and my Y6 yawed 45 degrees to the left. It still tracked straight home and later corrected the...

I use AVROTO Motors 2814/11s. I noticed when I had them on my quad and tested the WKM on an earlier firmware that the motors were pretty warm and even hot on one occasion. Then the problem went away. These were motors from my Hexa that survived a crash. I built a Y6 and purchased new...

The APC props are pretty tough. I "upgraded" to full carbon fiber props and had one break in flight with less than five minutes of flight time on them. The carbon fiber prop snapped at the hub sending one of the blades flying off in space and my craft straight to the ground. I heard the snap...

Cheap props will destroy your craft. They are probably the cheapest thing on a multi rotor, but will cost you an arm and a leg if they break. Graupners if you can afford 'em or stick with reliable, battle tested APC props. Trust me... I'm still rebuilding from my crash that happened months...

Every multi rotor that I've had crashed due to one reason or another. I had a Draganflyer Ti (thermal intelligent leveling system) once. I crashed it twice. The first time was pilot error. I thought that I took off with it in Thermal Intelligent mode and expected it to hover. My second...

I test flew my Y6 several times until I was able to get the gains to where I was happy with the flight performance. The Autopilot gains are how the craft will fly itself or react to un-commanded change in flight. So when the wind blows it affects how quickly the craft will stabilize itself...

I think starting with DJI WKM (WooKong M) or NAZA with GPS is the easiest and fastest way to get into multi-rotors. I originally purchased a Mikrocopter board after watching all of the videos of it flying but assembly is crazy. I surfed YouTube and found Hoverfly. I was about to purchase...

lmao! This is priceless!

Agreed... I experienced a prop failure induced crash. Seeing my reliable craft fall from the sky after installing some new and expensive props was an eye opener for me. That moment made me think of what could have happened on previous flights if I had such a failure. So I began thinking and...

I've flown near power lines without problem. I had to fly under some and then climb over some trees to get to a difficult spot and didn't have any interference problems. As always: fly with caution.

RTH is one of the better features/updates of DJI's flight controller. Fly it out and hit a switch to bring it home. It will land with minimal to no bounce if your settings are right, but I normally retake control before it lands (I have a Y6 and don't want to risk damaging the props). It's...

Yes! I do see smoke coming from something. Loss of a motor/ESC would explain the yaw issue. Good eyes! I guess it was a total failure of the ESC when the craft veered towards the building. The National Geographic guys had a Mikrokopter go down while filming a show about multi-copters...