Someone doesn`t like Phantoms

[Coyote]

Johnny Dronehunter: Defender of Privacy - Official Trailer feat. Salvo 12 Shotgun Silencer

[marcin]

Proper treatment at last  :minigun: :rocks:

[electrotor]

Someone else doesn't like Phantoms either. The flyer deserved it though - damn stupid place to play with his toy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyajJM4JyFw#ws

For some reason the embedded video keeps crashing. Just click on the YouTube link at the bottom right to go straight to the video page.

[Coyote]

The embed is working fine for me

I see his attitude in the replies speaks volumes, he doesn`t care what people think, he got 70,000 views in 3 days and that`s all he cares about. Youtube whore at its finest

[Ynot6]

jackass. he deserved to get it broke.

[Dizzy]

I could do with him down here in Cornwall at the moment ;D

It seems there is an  "idiot"  running amok down here at present :(

dizzy :)

[Gundummy]

is there anyone that actually likes phantoms apart from "pro" ahem ahem photographers?

[Ynot6]

having seen 3 of them at the northern, i can tell you they are very impressive. the big problem with them is that they are ready to go. that would be fine if it weren't for the kind of over paid dickheads that all to often buy them.

[Ratty]

Some scenes in the new "24" TV show were filmed with a Phantom.  :o

[Gundummy]

 :facepalm: I'm to tired to even go there lmao but....

perhaps a photographer, can do some online research

= If he did - he wouldn't get one!

[wgt40w]

is there anyone that actually likes phantoms apart from "pro" ahem ahem photographers?

Yes - me for one.
Having flown planes and helis, I was naturally interested when multis first came along. However the heavy involvement of setting up the controllers, gains etc. ( I would have done it all wrong ) put me off. But, when the Phantom came along, I was immediately convinced this would be a great starter package for me to commence learning and modifying.

My Phantom (I) is now modded with:-
- retracting carbon fibre landing gear
- extended alum motor mounts
- 10" props
- Arris 2000 GoPro gimbal on carbon front camera hanger
- Immersion vtx hooked up to GoPro
- twin Lipos balancing gimbal
- Futaba S-bus receiver fitted to obtain 8th Channel needed for retracts

Modifying this Phantom has taught me a lot about Multis, without the 'usual' heavy repair/ replacement financial costs most people suffer. Now controllers are available that work straight-from-the-box, such as the Naze32, I now would have the confidence to build one up from a kit.
I've never crashed the Phantom - had a few 'heavy' landings yes - the only failures have been one motor (suspect I got some drilling swarf in it - but couldn't find any) and one compass module that just packed up for no reason.

[electrotor]

is there anyone that actually likes phantoms apart from "pro" ahem ahem photographers?

Me too.
One of the other guys in the local club bought one last year when the price dropped dramatically and after watching it fly I did the same. Mine was bought specifically as a stable and easy to fly aerial photography platform and has been very reliable. I fitted it with GoPro Hero3 Black, Zenmuse 2D gimbal,  Immersion 5.8 vtx and big battery door. The thing I liked about it straight away was the easy to see lights on the arms for orientation and the status indicator on the aft side. Those things really helped build confidence in quad flying so I find flying my other quads much easier now.
Following a ditching incident (ahem) I have moved on to a Phantom 2.

[Ynot6]

last weekend i was out with a small group flying. one of them (i'm rubbish with names) had done just as you said, not yet done his bnuc-s  though. he finds the phantom great for its perpose, but a little boring to fly. he's looking into a small "fun" quad, maybe 250 size. i feel the problem is that the ease of use of the phantom will be it's undoing and we'll end up with more regulation on the back of it. it would greatly help if the "supermarkets" e.g. maplins were more pro-active about making customers aware of the regs.

[Gundummy]

I'm being victimised by "pro photographers" ......

RTS

Return To Shenzen

:D

[FPVSteve]

Having seen the Phantom flying, my opinion of it is this:

It just works.

I don't buy the argument that someone can just go in and buy one off the shelf then bring the hobby to its knees - we're not talking an X4 here, we're talking a good few hundred quid worth of kit. Even the most stupid chav I know would fly with a bit of care if they were going to lose that amount of cash by being stupid ... so are we to say that the X4 is more dangerous to the hobby than the Phantom? Maybe! Having said that though even if they did want to fly like an idiot, the Naza does a pretty good job of giving them the ability to get out of trouble pretty easily, i.e. Atti and GPS lock with RTH.

At the Northern meet I watched people flying TeamFTP's Phantom ... I was led to believe that they were beginners, and hadn't flown before. Thanks to the Phantom I'm not actually sure how true that was because they were flying with confidence pretty damn quickly, and yes .. again, it just worked.

To me, the "just works" coupled with accessories which also just work (i.e. the gimbals, etc) ... it's a pretty damn nice platform. Sure it's not as fun to fly as a TBS Discovery but then the TBS Discovery isn't a plug and play solution, doesn't have a real gimbal (unless you pay over the odds for a Pro) and even then gets absolutely poo'ed on from a great height when it comes to battery life, unless you mod the hell out of it (long arms, bigger props, lower KV motors).

There's not much wrong with the Phantom really, it does its job and does it really well with a minimum of fuss. Not sure why that means it's a bad product?