DucktileMedia
Drone Enthusiast
Trust me, JingChen knows all of this! And like all of these companies, there is always something you did wrong that can be fixed VERY easily. It's like Dell customer service, "is your computer next to a fluorescent lamp?" "ok sir, that may be the reason why your harddrive stopped working."
My "value" 8 flew very well too for about 1 hour. Then when things went weird it was my fault for not aligning the shafts correctly, or I didnt put the motor leads to the ESC in flat enough in that tight little space where they rub against the motors shaft. I was asked to take out a carpenter's square and true everything up. At the end of the day, I am using the same Xaircraft controller in my large hex and it flies just fine. I have intentionally misaligned the arms and angles of the motors just as a test, and IT DOESNT MAKE A DIFFERENCE. The computer has no idea what it is flying. it just does whatever it can to keep things level. What it turned out to be was the hub of my props were breaking. Some of them didnt completely fly apart, they just cracked. Then a motor seized up on me. I could not even turn the motor with my hand it was so tight. I was smart enough to never get involved with GPS.
All in all, the xaircraft guys seem to have made a valiant effort to get things working and to clean the slate of their previous status. But it just doesnt seem to be within their capacity to do it. They must have way too much money in inventory to take a chance changing things. Still no addendum for all these piddly little things that EVERYONE asks every time they buy one. Still the same props with the awkward hub that no one wants to deal with. We all bought Xaircraft because it is the closest thing to a turn-key cheap unit out there. With the DJI making such a huge influence to the market, they are going to either have to lower their price to a fisher-price level or start meeting the demands of their customers. It's too expensive to be a toy and just not enough to be a tool.
My "value" 8 flew very well too for about 1 hour. Then when things went weird it was my fault for not aligning the shafts correctly, or I didnt put the motor leads to the ESC in flat enough in that tight little space where they rub against the motors shaft. I was asked to take out a carpenter's square and true everything up. At the end of the day, I am using the same Xaircraft controller in my large hex and it flies just fine. I have intentionally misaligned the arms and angles of the motors just as a test, and IT DOESNT MAKE A DIFFERENCE. The computer has no idea what it is flying. it just does whatever it can to keep things level. What it turned out to be was the hub of my props were breaking. Some of them didnt completely fly apart, they just cracked. Then a motor seized up on me. I could not even turn the motor with my hand it was so tight. I was smart enough to never get involved with GPS.
All in all, the xaircraft guys seem to have made a valiant effort to get things working and to clean the slate of their previous status. But it just doesnt seem to be within their capacity to do it. They must have way too much money in inventory to take a chance changing things. Still no addendum for all these piddly little things that EVERYONE asks every time they buy one. Still the same props with the awkward hub that no one wants to deal with. We all bought Xaircraft because it is the closest thing to a turn-key cheap unit out there. With the DJI making such a huge influence to the market, they are going to either have to lower their price to a fisher-price level or start meeting the demands of their customers. It's too expensive to be a toy and just not enough to be a tool.
